Mentees 2023/24
Dr Anandita Bajpai
Research focuses:
Cold War History | Radio reception history (20th century) | Deutsche Welle und Radio Berlin International | Afro-Asian Entanglements | Oral History | India-GDR-FRG Cultural Relations
Dr Sonja Bayer
Research focuses:
Open Science | FAIR Data | Reuse of Research Data | Open Research Practices in Educational Research | Collaboration between Research and Data Infrastructure
DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main
Dr Hannah Behrens
Research focuses:
malaria parasites | drug resistence | cell biology and biochemistry | endocytosis and cellular uptake processes | analysis of protein structures | pathogenic bacteria
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg
Dr. Alena van Bömmel
Research focuses:
Computational Biology | Machine Learning | Aging | Epigenetics | Gene Regulation | Cancer Epigenome | Epigenetic Clocks
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena
Dr. Katharina Bothe
Research focuses:
Maritime Industries | Blue Economy and Sustainable Development | Shipping | Cruise Business | Migration | Diversity | Social Inequality | Cultural Studies of Work and Organization
German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM), Bremerhaven
Dr. Geraldine Dany-Knedlik
Research focuses:
empirical macroeconomics | forecasting | business cycle analysis | income inequality and macroeconomic dynamics
Eliška Drápalová, PhD
Research focuses:
Regulation of platform economy | use of technology in local governance | smart cities | comparative politics and public administration | multi-level governance | corruption and technocratic-populism
Dr. Cara Ebert
Research focuses:
Development Economics | Economics of Migration | Health Economics | Gender Economics
Dr. Mira Fischer
Research focuses:
educational decisions and attainment | incentives in the education system | mental health |mindfulness | policy preferences | work motivation | team work | applied microeconometrics | randomized field studies
Dr. Lynn Govaert
Research focuses:
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a changing world | Species and community responses to environmental change | Microcosm experiments | Development of concepts and eco-evolutionary quantification methods
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Dr. Susan Hartmann
Research focuses:
Atmospheric Cloud Microphysics | Secondary Ice Production | Biological Ice Nucleating Particles | Atmosphere-Biosphere-Interaction | Classical Nucleation Theory
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig
Jacqueline Heckenhauer, PhD
Research focuses:
Evolutionary biology and comparative genomics of insects | Genomic basic for evolution of underwater silk in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) and other
Dr. Ilka M. Hermes
Research focuses:
Materials for energy and sensing | Functional Polymers | Charge processes | Scanning probe microscopy | Interfacial properties
PD Dr.-Ing habil. Stefanie Hoja
Research focuses:
load-adapted nitriding and nitrocarburizing of ferrous materials | Preheat treatment and tempering effects during nitriding | Methods for characterization of the compound layer | Energy efficiency by combination of surface treatments | Wear and fatigue behavior of surface layers | Nitriding of non-ferrous metals for hydrogen applications
Dr. Elif Inan-Eroglu
Research focuses:
nutritional epidemiology | adiposity | alcohol consumption | diet quality | protein intake | physical activity | chronic diseases
German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal
Dr. Melanie Köhler
Research focuses:
Mouthfeel of food products | biophysics | biological atomic force microscooy | food systems biology | mechanoreceptors | biomechanics | single molecules
Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB)
Dr. Lisa Merten
Research focuses:
Information-oriented media use | Opinion formation | Political Communication | Social Media |Polarisation of Political Attitudes | Artificial Intelligence | Computational Social Science
Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Hamburg
Dr. Jennifer Meyer
Research focuses:
Using digital adaptive technologies based on artificial intelligence in education | Determinants of the effectiveness of computer-based feedback | Designing digital learning opportunities considering learners' individual characteristics
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel (IPN)
Dr. Ekaterina Mikhailova
Research focuses:
Borders | Sovereignty | Performativity | Territorial Identiy | Border Cities | Centre-Periphery Relations | Post-Soviet | Postcolonial | Central Asia
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Dr. Cindarella Petz
Research focuses:
Application of digital, computational, quantitative and qualitative methods in the historical studies | Computational History | Digital History | Digital Humanities | Historical Network Research | Text Mining and NLP | Jewish History | Holocaust Studies | History of Political Judiciary and Political Criminality | Modern and Contemporary History
Dr. Regine Schwab
Research focuses:
Non-state armed groups, esp. Islamist and jihadist groups | Middle East and North Africa (MENA), esp. Syria | Inner-state conflicts | Violence against civilians and civilian infrastructure in armed conflicts | Mixed methods
Dr. Piyada Suwanpinij
Research focuses:
CO2-reduced Steel Metallurgy | Hot Rolling | Sheet Hot Stamping | Electrical Steel | High Strength Metals | Phase Transformation and Precipitation in Metals | Microstructural Characterisation
Miriam von Thenen, PhD
Research focuses:
Coastal and marine ecosystem services - indicators and assessments |geospatial data analysis and visualization | coastal and marine management and planning | social-ecological impacts of maritime activities | (geospatial) decision-support tools
Dr. Alke Voskamp
Research focuses:
Macroecology and conservation | impacts of environmental change on biodiversity | climate and land-use change | terrestrial vertebrates | global conservation assessments | biodiversity indicators |site selection | conservation decision making
Nicole Webb, PhD
Research focuses:
Functional morphology | Primate evolution | Evolution of birth difficulty | Evolution of bipedalism
Dr. Qianying Yi
Research focuses:
Natural ventilation in livestock buildings | Measurement, modelling and control of indoor climate | Modelling of ammonia and GHG emissions | Computational fluid dynamics simulation | Boundary layer wind tunnel experiment.
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Potsdam