Mentees 2026/27
Dr Ecenaz Alemdag
Research focuses:
Designing Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments | Feedback in Instructional Settings | AI in Educational Assessment and Learning
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN), Kiel
Dr Prerana Chaudhari
Research focuses:
Biology of Ageing | Longevity Research | Host-Microbiome Interactions | Leaky Gut | Barrier Restoration Therapeutics
Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena
Katarina Damčević, PhD
Research focuses:
Semiotics of Conflict | Memory Studies | Contentious Politics | Contested Symbols | Qualitative Research Methods | Academic Writing and Peer Feedback | Genre Pedagogy
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Dr Jessica de Bruijn
Research focuses:
Biological Control | Ecosystem-Based Plant Protection | Agroecology | Entomology | Insect Foraging Behaviour | Insect-Plant Interactions | Insect Chemical Ecology | Parasitoid Wasps
Leibniz Institute for Horticultural Sciences (IGZ), Großbeeren
Dr Sophia Fiedler
Research focuses:
Spoken Language | Lexis of Spoken German | Grammar in Interaction | Cross-Linguistic Research | Language and Bodily Behaviour | German as a Foreign Language
Dr Sabrina Geißlitz
Research focuses:
Food Chemistry | Cereal Analysis | Wheat-Related Disorders | Baking Quality | Cereal Proteins | Structure-Activity Relationships
Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB), Freising
Dr Alexandra Ghiț
Research focuses:
Gender and Women's History | Labour History | History of Central and Eastern Europe | Postwar Reconstruction | History of Welfare States and Social Policy
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
Vilane Gonçalves Sales, PhD
Research focuses:
Climate Adaptation Economics | Sustainability Transitions | Coastal Tourism Vulnerability | Climate Risk Governance | Applied Economic Modelling | Text-as-Data Methods
Dr Anna-Magdalena Heide
Research focuses:
Museum, Exhibition and Collection Studies | Material Culture Studies | Historical and Visual Anthropology
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen (DBM)
Dr Bettina Hünteler
Research focuses:
Social Inequality | Family Sociology and Demography | Wealth Inequality | Health | Life Course Research | Quantitative Social Research
Dr Kathrin Kaestner
Research focuses:
Economic Research on the Heating Transition | Environmental and Energy Economics | Behavioural Economics | Household Behaviour | Acceptance | Survey Experiments | Applied Econometrics
Dr Lavinia Kinne
Research focuses:
Gender Inequalities | Labour Market | Women in Leadership | Gender Stereotypes | Media Coverage | Educational Inequalities | Feedback
Ekaterina Paustyan, PhD
Research focuses:
Territorial Politics | Authoritarian Regimes | Electoral Manipulation | Political Elites | Russia | Ukraine | Case Studies | Qualitative Comparative Analysis | Social Network Analysis
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg
Dr Yechennan Peng
Research focuses:
Human Geography | Behavioural Science | Decision-Making | Adaptation and Mitigation | Energy Transition | Agent-Based Modelling
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg (Mark)
Dr Lena Roemer
Research focuses:
Personality Psychology | Vocational Interests | Change Modelling | Survey Data | Psychological Assessment
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Mannheim
Dr Julia Romberg
Research focuses:
Natural Language Processing | Inclusive and Perspectival AI Systems | Argumentation and Deliberation | Efficient Machine Learning Methods | Computational Social Science
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Mannheim
Dr Elina Rubertus
Research focuses:
Experimental Phonetics | Articulation | Multimodality of Speech | Acquisition of Spoken Language | Language Support in Early Childhood
Dr Saeede Salehi
Research focuses:
Neuroscience | Molecular Neurobiology | Neurodegeneration | Motor Neuron Diseases | Cell Biology | RNA Biology
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
Dr Arianne Schnabel
Research focuses:
Biochemistry and Biotechnology | Medicinal Plants | Biotransformation | Development of Novel Active Compounds Against Periodontitis and Cancer
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Halle (Saale)
Dr Eline Schoonjans
Research focuses:
Labour Markets | Environmental Economics | Environment and Social Justice
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim
Dr Kerstin Seier
Research focuses:
Research Management | EU Affairs Officer | Agroecology | Biophysics
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg (Mark)
Oleksandra Shumilova, PhD
Research focuses:
Freshwater Ecology | River Floodplains | Reestablishment of Ecosystems After Extreme Events of Natural and Anthropogenic Origin
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Dr Iva Vilović
Research focuses:
Stellar Physics and Exoplanets | Stellar Coronae and X-Ray Emission | Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape | Exoplanet Habitability
Dr Maria Magdalena Warter
Research focuses:
Ecohydrology | Isotope Hydrology | Nature-Based Solutions | Blue-Green Infrastructure | Water Management | Ecological Restoration | Urban Ecosystems | Biogeochemistry
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Dr Julia Weiß
Research focuses:
Political Behaviour | Political Socialisation | Labour Market and Social Policy | Computational Social Science | Survey Research | Digital Behavioural Data
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Mannheim
Dr Malin Sonja Wilckens
Research focuses:
European Global History of the 19th and 20th Centuries | History of Science | Environmental and Technology History | Historical Racism Studies | Practice Theory | Global Microhistory