Mentees 2024/25

Dr Franziska Baier-Mosch
Research focuses:teacher competence | teaching and learning with digital media |instructional explanations |cooperative learning |neuronal correlates of learning processes
DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF), Berlin and Frankfurt

Louise Biddle, PhD
Research focuses:Health Inequalities | Health system access | Migration | Maternal & Child Health | Mental Health | Survey Data

Dr Heide Busse
Research focuses:Public Health | Health promotion and prevention | Design, evaluation and implementation of complex public health interventions | Physical Activity | Nutrition | Mental Health | Health promotion in children and adolescents | Impact of health interventions on health equity and equality | Digital public health interventions
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Bremen

Dr Ayşe Candan Şimşek
Research focuses:cognitive psychology | visual perception | event cognition | perception of visual media | educational psychology | artificial intelligence | learning | memory | film perception

Dr Jana Costa
Research focuses:Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) | Teacher education | Informal learning | Mixed-Methods-Research | Large-Scale-Assessments | Secondary data analysis
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamnerg

Dr Aleksandra Ćwiek
Research focuses:Acoustic phonetics | Experimental phonetics | Laboratory phonology | Prosody | Linguistic iconicity | Sound symbolism | Language evolution

Dr Tamara Dogandzic
Research focuses:Stone Tool Technologies in the Palaeolithic | Neanderthal Occupation of Europe | Late Neanderthals and early modern humans in the Balkans | Experimental Archaeology

Dr Thérése Eder
Research focuses:Learning and teaching with digital media | Eye |tracking | Computer based feedback | Cognitive learning processes | Development of diagnostic skills for medical images | Eye movement |based interventions

Dr Johanna Eisenträger
Research focuses:Mechanics of Materials | Fracture Mechanics | Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Alloys under Cyclic Loading | Creep of Steels and Short Fiber Reinforced Materials | Finite Element Method (FEM) | Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM)

Dr Aleeza Farrukh
Research focuses:Electroactive Polymer | Stimuil |Responsive Hydrogels | Bioelectronics | Bioinspired Materials | Soft Materials | Bioconjugation Chemistries
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM), Saarbrücken

Dr Alexandra Gubina
Research focuses:Syntax of Spoken German

Friederike Hertweck, PhD
Research focuses:Economic research on educational transitions | Labor economics | Higher education research | Educational data & data availability | Natural language processing | Randomized control trials | Machine learning | AI in education | ICT skills

Dr Susanne Holtze
Research focuses:Wildlife Reproduction | Theriogenology | Ageing Research | Species Conservation
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin

Dr Jacqueline Kroh
Research focuses:Social Inequalities in Education and Health | Non-monetary Returns | Methods of Modern Causal Analysis | Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg

Dr Yim Ming Connie Kwong
Research focuses:Cultures | values and practices | Moral geographies | Tourism and co |development | Sustainable futures | Participatory and transdisciplinary research

Dr Irene Lacal
Research focuses:Decision making | Sensorimotor control | Motivation and reward | Unconstrained neurophysiology | Translational neurophysiology
German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Göttingen

Dr Rahel Laudien
Research focuses:Climate Risk Management | Agriculture | Food Security | Anticipatory Actions | Yield Forecasting | Machine Learning | Sub | Saharan Africa

Dr Marjansadat Mirahmadi
Research focuses:Theoretical Atomic | Molecular and Optical Physics | Mathematical Physics | Quantum molecular Dynamics | Chirality and chiral dynamical phenomena
Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin

Dr Rachel O'Sullivan
Research focuses:Holocaust History | Colonialism | Cultural Genocide | Comparative Research | Second World War | Eastern Europe | Central Europe
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), Munich and Berlin

Lara Puhlmann, PhD
Research focuses:Biomarkers of stress and mental resilience | Prospective longitudinal designs | Randomized trials promoting psychosocial and cognitive resources for wellbeing

Dr Mariana Schuster
Research focuses:Plant science | crop protection | biochemistry | fungal plant pathogens | plant immunity | molecular biology
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle (Saale)

Dr Nataliia Sinkevych
Research focuses:History of Eastern Europe in the early modern time | history of the Church | interconfessional polemics
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig

Dr Ingrid Stelzner
Research focuses:Conservation science | archaeometry | objects conservation (specialty: archaeological objects)

Dr Anna Straubinger
Research focuses:Transport economics | Environmental economics | Urban economics | Equilibrium models | Aviation | Urban mobility | Climate policies | Transport policies
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

Dr Christina Vonnahme
Research focuses:Labour Economics | Ecological Transformation | Education Economics | Migration Economics

Dr Hanna Zwaka
Research focuses:Sleep | Zebrafish larva | Systems Neuroscience | Two photon Imaging | Behavior