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Prof. Dr. Gunther Schnabl
Economic Policy and International Economics
Professor
Leipzig University
CV: Gunther Schnabl is Professor of Economic Policy and International Economics at Leipzig University. He is a Senior Fellow at the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute. Gunther Schnabl received his PhD from Tübingen University. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Tokyo University and Catholic University Leuven as well as at numerous central banks including the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Before becoming a professor at Leipzig University, he was an advisor at the European Central Bank. His research focus is on monetary policy, exchange rates and the Japanese economy. He has published in numerous international refereed journals. According to the economist ranking of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung he is one of Germany's most influential economists. His most recent book on "Japans Banken in der Krise" illustrates the economic and social consequences of 30 years of low interest rate policy in Japan.
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Dr. Jennifer Strehse is a postdoc researcher at the University Medical School Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She has a degree in pharmacy from the University of Kiel and did her doctorate at the Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology. One of her main research interests is the impact of dumped munitions in the sea, and its effects on the ecosphere and human health. She has been coordinating various research projects on this topic since 2016. Another focus of her research is the effect of pharmaceutical residues on the environment. She also works as a pharmacist in a pharmacy.
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Prof. Dr. Annett Lotzin is full professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at MSH Medical School Hamburg and a senior research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Hamburg. As a licensed Clinical Psychologist, her research focuses on the prevention and treatment of stress- and trauma-related disorders and addiction.
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Jan Fiedler studied biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth in between 2001 to 2006. His diploma thesis dealed with understanding mitochondrial morphogenesis in yeast. Moving to clinical applications, he performed his PhD thesis at the University Hospital Würzburg in experimental cardiology investigating RNA-based interventions for cardiac wounding and healing. After receiving his PhD in 2010 from the University of Würzburg he moved for Postdoc to Hannover Medical School where he built a research group on RNA therapeutics in cardiopulmonary disease.
He filed his Habilitation thesis (PD thesis) at Hannover Medical School in 2021 for experimental pharmacology on the subject of molecular mechanisms of non-coding RNA and its application in therapeutic intervention of heart failure. In 2021, Jan Fiedler started at Fraunhofer ITEM Hannover to initiate a cardiovascular research unit.
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Dr. Daniel Reiche
Joint Lab Integrated Quantum Sensors
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of Physics
CV: Dr. Daniel Reiche studied physics in Jena and Berlin and conducted research for his master thesis at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He then worked at the Max Born Institute and as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Northern Arizona University. In 2021 he obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he is currently working as a post-doc on the miniaturization of quantum sensors.
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Professor Dr. Anja Geigenmüller is full professor of marketing at Ilmenau University of Technology. She obtained her PhD from Freiberg University of Technology, Germany. She was assigned as visiting professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (2006) as well as at EGADE Monterrey Tech - ITESM, México City (2007).
Her research interests include service marketing and management, relationship marketing, and technology marketing. Her work has been published in outlets including the Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, and Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. Professor Geigenmüller teaches courses, among others, on business-to-business marketing, service marketing, and technology marketing. Currently, she is serving as Vice President Teaching and Learning of TU Ilmenau.
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Prof. Dr. Alfonso de Toro
Prof. Dr. Alfonso de Toro, Romanist seit 2015 Emeritus/Angehöriger U. Leipzig. Assistent f. Rom. Phil. 1978-1991 U. Kiel; Gastprof. U. Missouri 1991-1992; PD U. Hamburg 1992-1993; o.Uni-Prof. f. Rom. Phil./Inst. f. Rom. UL 1993; Seminare bei M. Foucault/R. Barthes Paris 1979; Diss. U. München 1982, Habil. U. Hamburg 1992. Forschung: Theater/Literatur/Kultur: Frankreich, Frankophonie, Spanien, Lateinamerika; Postmodernität, Postkolonialität, Hybridität, Diaspora, Migration, Identität, Erinnerung, Borges, Kahlo. Pub.: Die Zeitstruktur1986; Von den Ähnlichkeiten und Differenzen 1986; Borges Infinitio 2008; Epistémologies: Le ‘Maghreb’ 2008/2011. Direktor: „Ibero-Amerikanischen“/„Frankophonen Forschungsseminars“ UL u. der Reihen „TKKL“; „TPT“; Passagen; Transversalité. Ehrungen: „Orden Gabriela Mistral mit dem Rang Grand Offizier“ 2009; „Korrespondierendes Mitglied der chilenischen Sprachakademie im Ausland“ 2014; „Officier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques“ 2015.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Brach
Sport Science
Human Movement Science
University of Münster, Institute of Sport and Exercise Sciences
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Prof. Dr. Chris Biemann
Computer Science
Universität Hamburg
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Dr. Thomas Fischer is a senior scientist at the Chair of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, led by Prof. Sanjay Mathur, at the University of Cologne (https://mathur.uni-koeln.de), specializing in precursor based materials processing, using gas phase deposition techniques and advanced materials characterization (incl. SEM, TEM, XRD). He is also co-founder of the technology transfer center "Materials Alliance Cologne" (https://materialsalliance.com) and supporting the sustainability activities of the university (https://sustainability.uni-koeln.de), as well as local chapter activities of the American Ceramic Society (https://ceramics.uni-koeln.de) and Materials Research Society (https://mrs.uni-koeln.de).
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Philipp Brüggemann
Doctoral Researcher
University of Hagen
CV: Philipp Brüggemann studied Business Administration in Münster at one of the most renowned german universities for business studies and successfully completed his Bachelor of Science in 2012. He extended his knowledge in marketing with a Master of Science at the University of Kiel in 2015. During his studies, Philipp Brüggemann assisted in research projects at the Chair of Technology Management at University of Kiel. After his graduation, Philipp Brüggemann held a leading position in a non-profit organization in the field of controlling and finance.
Since 2018 he is a doctoral candidate of Prof. Dr. Rainer Olbrich at the Chair of Marketing at University of Hagen. In addition to his doctoral thesis on the ‘Decomposition of Market Shares’, Philipp Brüggemann is working on further research projects, e.g. on online grocery shopping, digital voice assistants, augmented reality, and customer churn rates in freemium business models.
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Dr. Veronika Zhiteneva is an environmental engineer specializing in water and wastewater treatment. She obtained her BS from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her MS from at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2016 she began her doctorate work in the risk assessment of water reuse systems under the supervision of Prof. Jörg Drewes at the Technical University of Munich. Since obtaining her doctorate in 2020, she has been working as a research scientist and project manager in the Process Innovation team of the Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin.
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Edvaldo Begotaraj, PhD in Dynamic and Clinical Psychology completed his professional and psychological education at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology in 2020. Graduated in Clinical and Community Psychology at the same University in 2007. After academic positions in Albania and Italy, he was appointed Head of Department of Pedagogy-Psychology at KU LOGOS, Albania. He is member of several European psychological associations. Dr Begotaraj has been principal and co-investigator in numerous national and mainly international studies in traumatic psychological intervention, clinical psychology, mental health of students and has published more than 30 scientific reports, a considerable part of them in peer review articles. From 2007-2010 he has been engaged in clinical interventions on youth migrants, phenomenon of stalking in vulnerable population and equal gender studies in Rome, Italy. From 2010-2016 he has been engaged in academic positions in Tirana, Albania. Actually, his research includes projects on public health, mental health, covid-related psychological symptoms on different clinical and non-clinical populations. Dr. Begotaraj is credited as a reviewer for many indexed journals of high impact factor. Some of his works has been awarded with Best Prize in international conferences in Italy. Keyword characterizing the expertise: motivation, anxiety, depression, mental health, narrative exposure treatment.
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Dr. Stephanie Finzel heads the Clinical Trials Unit Rheumatology as a Senior Attending Physician and is a lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. Her research focus is the validation of imaging tools such as High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) as outcome parameters for use in randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs). Dr. Finzel has had extensive methodological training trough her being a member (and former fellow) of the OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials) group. She is regularly publishing on the validation and methodology of musculoskeletal imaging tools. Since 2011 she is the European co-chair of the ‘Study grouP for xtrEme-Computed Tomography in RheumAtology’ (SPECTRA)-collaboration, a consortium of researchers from rheumatology, radiology, and epidemiology that set the common goal of validating HR-pQCT as an imaging outcome tool in RCTs.
Another research focus is the characteristics and triggers of Haemochromatosis Arthropathy (HA), an arthropathy occurring in Hereditary Haemochromatosis. Dr. Finzel is a founding member of the Haemochromatosis Arthropathy Research Initiative (HARI). Furthermore, she is the co-chair of the EULAR Task Force on the ‘Development of classification criteria for haemochromatosis arthropathy’.
The creation of classification criteria for HA will set the key stone for future clinical therapeutic RCTs involving patients with HA.
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Prof. Dr. Martin van Gelderen
About: I started my career in what was still West-Berlin, taking up a position as Assistant Professor at the fine and fairly small history department of the Technische Universität Berlin in April 1989. In 1995 I was appointed, to my great surprise, to the Chair of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex in England. The eight years in Sussex were formative, especially in intellectual terms, mainly thanks to the interdisciplinary make up, that was still the hallmark of Sussex during the period I was there. In 2003 I returned to my alma mater, the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where I had obtained my PhD in 1988. Between 2003 and 2012 I was Professor of European Intellectual History at the EUI. Within Europe’s academic landscape the EUI is a rare jewel. It stands out in so many ways! Intellectually it is one of those rare places where not only academics from many countries but also their rich diversity of academic cultures come together, cooperate, clash and conflict.
Somehow, during the last two decades the combination of international academic management and research have characterised my career. At Sussex I was Co- Director of the Graduate Research Center in the Humanities, at the EUI I was Dean of Graduate Studies at the EUI from 2008-2012; between 2012 and 2021 I was Director of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Göttingen.
As to scholarship, the emphasis is still on the history of political and religious thought, in particular on European traditions of republicanism and on debates on religious toleration. Hallmarks are the four volumes Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage and Freedom and the Construction of Europe – both outcomes of major international research projects co-directed with Quentin Skinner. More recently I have been working on a new transcription, translations and scholarly editions of the diaries of Anne Frank. Co-edited with Raphael Gross, the new Dutch editio princeps, and English and German editions are reaching the final stage. My research plans for the years to come include a new English edition and translation of Hugo Grotius’ De Iure Belli ac Pacis / The Laws of War and Peace for the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought and the monograph Between Erasmus and Rembrandt: Visual and Textual Debates on Republican Politics
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Prof. Dr. Marcus Brandenburg is Professor for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. His research and teaching focuses on operations and supply chain management, especially in context to financial performance and sustainability. His academic qualification comprises a doctoral and a post-doctoral degree from the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Kassel and a diploma in mathematics from Kiel University. In addition, he gained more than ten years of professional experience in different management positions in two manufacturing firms and a management consultancy.
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Prof. Dr. Jochen Gläser is Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Technical University Berlin and Academy Professor at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received his PhD in sociology of science from Humboldt University Berlin and has since worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Colone, the Science Center Berlin, the Australian National Unviersity and the Unviersity of Lancaster. His major research interest is the interaction of epistemic and institutional factors in the shaping of conduct and content of research at the micro-level of individuals and groups and at the meso-level of scientific communities. Recent publications include a special issue of Minerva on “Changing Funding Arrangements and the Production of Scientific Knowledge” (co-edited with Kathia Serrano-Velardes, 2018), the Chapter “How can governance change research content? Linking science policy studies to the sociology of science“ in the Handbook of Science and Public Policy (edited by Dagmar Simon et al., Edward Elgar 2019).