Mentees 2025/26
Dr Honey Dawn Alas
Research focuses:
Aerosols, Air Quality | Low-Cost Sensors | Air Pollution in Urban Areas | Measurement Techniques
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig
Elena Andres, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Translational functional Neuroimaging | Stress and emotional learning | Neuromodulation of affective cognition | Dopamine and memory consolidation
Dr Jyothi Balachanadran Nair
Research focuses:
Raman-Biochip | Organic &Peptide Chemist | Targeted delivery designing│Synthetic and nano designing│Natural products │SERS - AI Enthusiast
Dr Judith Boldt
Research focuses:
Bacterial active component research | Bioinformatice | Integrative Omics-analysis | Genome-mining
Dr-Ing Stefanie Brünenberg
Research focuses:
Architectural History | GDR Architectural heritage | Transformative history | Collective architectural production | Urban planning theory | Post-war modernism archicture | Architectural theory
Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Berlin
Dr Solveig Franziska Bucher
Research focuses:
Functional biodiversity | Climate change | Ecophysiology | Frost resistance | Photosynthesis
Dr Christine Chiriac
Research focuses:
Educational media | School education | Nationalism | Antisemitism | Migration
Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), Braunschweig
Dr Sonali Chowdhry
Research focuses:
International economics | Trade policy | Global supply chains | Firm behaviour
Lisa Garbe, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Democracy and Autocracyresearch | Digitisation | Political inequality | Protests | Censorship | Information and communication technology
Dr-Ing Genet Asefa Gesese
Research focuses:
Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Knowledge Graphs | Neuro-symbolic AI | NLP
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur (FIZ KA)
Dr Laura Heinen
Research focuses:
Life-like materials | Systems chemistry | Active soft matter systems | Synthetic biology | Synthetic cells | Out-of-equilibrium reaction networks
Dr Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino
Research focuses:
Peace and Conflict Studies as well as Post-/Decolonial Security Studies | Historical and Sociological Perspectives on International Organizations and International Relations | Comparative Dynamics between (Post)Colonialism and (Post)Socialism | Regional Focus: Central Africa and the GDR in International Politics
Dr Sabrina Kirschke
Research focuses:
Public Policy | Science-Policy Interactions | Participation | Environmental Governance | Wicked Problems
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MfN), Berlin
Dr Laura-Isabelle Klatt
Research focuses:
Cognitive Neuroscience | M/EEG | Work memory | Multisensory processing | Selective attention
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), Dortmund
Dr Katrin Kleemann
Research focuses:
Environmental history | Scientific history | Climate history | History of the early modern times and modern times | Blue Humanitites; german sea observatory | History od maritime research expeditions | Historical earthquakes | Historical vulcano eruptions | History of geology
Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum - Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte (DSM), Bremerhaven
Dr Maren Mayer
Research focuses:
Colleborative cooperation | Digital collaboration | Scientific communication | Opinion change | Nummerical judgement formation | Cognitive modeling
Dr Anne McLeod
Research focuses:
Community/ecosystem ecology | Species interactions | Global change | Prediction
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Dr Anna Oechslen
Research focuses:
Concepts of work | Digitalisation | Feminist science | Ethnographic Research | Migration
Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Berlin
Dr Miriam Oschkinat
Research focuses:
Experimental phonetics | Sociophonetics | Cognitive speech processing | Speech motor control
Dr Anika Schenck-Fontaine
Research focuses:
Longitudinal and chort studies | Deprivation and poverty | Parent-child relations | Early childhood development
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg
Dr Barbora Šedová
Research focuses:
Climate | Migration | Conflict | Economics | Econometrics, development | Food security | Machine learning
Dr Johanna Speyer
Research focuses:
Crisis of world order | Norm contestation | Normative regulations | Exit of international organizations | European Union
Dr Lara Stuthmann
Research focuses:
Aqua culture | Stress physiology | Sea vegetables | Marine food production
Headerbild Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen
Henriette Uthe, Ph.D.
Research focuses:
Secondary plant metabolites | Plant metabolomics | Reference libraries | Multiomics | Metablomics practice
Headerbild Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle
Dr Jeanette Ziehm-Eicher
Research focuses:
Scientific management | Scientific administration | Finance | Controlling
DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, Frankfurt am Main
Dr Mela Žuljević
Research focuses:
Cartography | Landscape | Politics of Design | Green Transition | Countermapping