Previous Trefftz Professors
1 January - 31 October 2019
Faculty of Biology
Dr. Verena Behringer from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) has accepted an invitation to come to TU Dresden from 1 January to 31 October 2019, within the “Eleonore Trefftz” Programme for Visiting Women Professors. As a specialist in the field of comparative endocrinology in primates, she will be a guest at the Institute of Zoology. During her stay, she will participate in existing courses and set up new ones - for example, on topics such as “Current Research in Primatology” or “Comparative Endocrinology”. Moreover, Dr Behringer will also continue previous research activities in the field of “Endocrinology of life history patterns in bonobos and chimpanzees”, as well as work on expanding collaborations at TU Dresden in the field of saliva analysis within the context of evolutionary biology and the implications for medical questions.
More information:
Dr. Verena Behringer - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Contact:Dr. Verena Behringer
1 March - 31 August 2019
Faculty of Architecture
Together with two partners, Christina Köchling owns her own architectural office, Felgendreher Olfs Köchling, in Berlin. She was staying at the Institute of Buildings and Design: Public Buildings and Design from 1 March to 31 August 2019. During her guest professorship, she taught how to design methodically. A particular type of building and typical architectural motifs in a particular city was examined and transformed into a contemporary project.
Her own work is characterised by an atmospheric, vivid architecture that refers to regional building culture.
Contact:Christina Köchling
1 March - 31 July 2019
Faculty of Physics
Dr. Lana Ivanjek is a specialist in the field of physics education and works at the University of Vienna at the Faculty of Physics in the Basic Experimental Physics Training and Didactics Group. Under the “Eleonore Trefftz” Programme for Visiting Women Professors, Dr Ivanjek was a guest at the Chair of Didactics of Physics, working with Prof. Gesche Pospiech from 1 March to 31 July, 2019. During her stay, she held a seminar on the use of tablets and smartphones in physics teaching to complement the increasing digitalisation of teacher training. In addition, she pursued her own research project on the use of graphs at the interface of mathematics and physics in order to enable teachers to improve the design of lessons and help pupils to understand the subject better.
Contact:Dr. Lana Ivanjek
1 April - 30 September 2019
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Dr. Nayla Fawzi works at the Department of Media and Communication at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and was visiting TUD as a guest of Prof. Sven Engesser at the Institute of Media and Communication. She is currently head of the DFG network “Media trust”. Her research interests lie in the fields of political communication and the digital transformation of the media and the public sphere. During her stay at TU Dresden, Dr Fawzi held two Master’s courses on “Applied Media Research” as part of the modules “Opinion Research” and “Media Research”. In addition, she temporarily led the doctoral colloquium and supported the preparation of the specialised conference “DigiDem - Digitale Revolution in der Demokratie“.
Contact:Dr. Nayla Fawzi
7 July – 6 October 2019
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
An internationally leading scientist in the area of Modelling Nonlinear Systems for Circuits in Nanoelectronics, Prof. Angela Slavova has been Head of the Department of Mathematical Physics, Institute of Mathematics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 2004. From July 2016 to January 2017, Prof. Slavova was Dresden Senior Fellow at TUD. She was visiting professor at the University of Ioannina (Greece), University of Catania, University of Torino, Astronomical Observatory, Torino, University of Ferrara, University of Bologna, University of Florence (Italy), College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Ben-Gurion University (Israel), among others.
In the framework of the Eleonore Trefftz Program for Visiting Women Professors, she visited TUD as a guest of Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she contributed to the research in the area of Memristors in connection with Cellular Neural Networks to develop new computing architectures for digitalization. Moreover, she was working on a DFG project proposal with Prof. Tetzlaff. In addition, Prof. Slavova offered research seminars for PhD students on the topic of “Mathematical methods for modeling neural networks.”
More information about Prof. Slavova: https://cmc-dresden.org/team/angela-slavova/
1 August - 31 October 2019
Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Dr Laura Carrara is a classical philologist, literary and cultural scientist. After graduating in 2008 and gaining her doctorate in 2012 in her home country Italy (Pisa and Venice), she has been teaching and researching at the University of Tübingen and Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities on Classical and Late Antique Greek Literature. In the framework of the Eleonore Trefftz Programme for Visiting Women Professors, she will be hosted at the Institute of Classical Philology at the Chair of Classical Philology/Latin of Prof. Dr. Dennis Pausch. Here, she will continue her work on her habilitation thesis on the representation of seismic phenomena and verbalization of catastrophes in Greek and Latin literature. Moreover, she will give a compact seminar on natural disasters in antiquity, and will be supporting the preparation and direction of the seminar’s excursion to Southern France. During her stay, Dr Carrara will also establish and further expand department-internal as well as interdisciplinary synergies in the area of the culture of antiquity.
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/klassphil/das-institut/beschaeftigte/dr-laura-carrara
Oktober 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018
Faculty of Architecture
Professor Fatina Kourdi was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Aleppo University (Syria) until 2013, and also worked at the private Ebla University in neighbouring Idlib-Sarakeb. Due to the war, she fled to Turkey, where she worked at the Zirve University in Gaziantep until it was closed by the Turkish government after the attempted coup on 16 July, 2016.
From March to September 2017, Prof. Kourdi was a DRESDEN Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Dresden. She already had a connection to TU Dresden as a junior researcher, having written her doctoral thesis on urban planning here in the 1980s. In the 1990s, she also spent time in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe on postdoctoral research visits, and as a result, speaks fluent German.
Following on from her DRESDEN Fellowship, it was possible to keep her at TU Dresden for a further year as an Eleonore Trefftz visiting professor. Projects already begun at the Faculty of Architecture could thus be continued, and new projects initiated.
Starting in the winter semester 2017-18, Prof. Kourdi and Professor Manuel Bäumler (Chair of Urban Development) offered a multi-part seminar on the topic “Rebuild Aleppo! Szenarien und Strategien für den Wiederaufbau in informellen Siedlungen“ (Scenarios and strategies for reconstruction in informal settlements).
Prof. Kourdi was also collaborating on a DFG project on infrastructure and settlement patterns in India (Dr. -Ing. Manisha Jain, IÖR - Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development) and was involved in a variety of cultural initiatives, including the “Forum für Baukultur e. V.”, the “Zentralwerk e. V.” and the Dresden Museum of Ethnology.
Contact: Prof. Fatina Kourdi
January 1 – June 30, 2018
Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)
Dr. Selina Olthof studied physics at the University of Stuttgart and did her diploma dissertation at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. She then relocated to TU Dresden, where she wrote her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Applied Photophysics. From 2010 to 2012, she was a postdoc on a DAAD fellowship at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University in the USA. Since 2013, she has been a junior research group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cologne.
Dr. Olthof is researching the electronic structure of novel semiconductor materials, in particular organic molecules and hybrid perovskite compounds. Using photoelectron spectroscopy, she investigates how their electronic structure can be manipulated in a specific manner (e. g. by doping), and what influence fundamental material properties have on function in opto-electronic components. Among other things, her research will help to further develop novel solar cell concepts such as organic solar cells, tandem solar cells or perovskite solar cells.
During her 6-month stay at TU Dresden, Dr. Olthof closely collaborated with the cfaed’s “Organic” and “Carbon” research paths. She was also involved in subject-specific teaching, for example, in the lectures “Organic Semiconductors” and “Organic Photovoltaics”.
April 1 - September 30, 2017
Faculty of Law
Professor Ljubica Djordjevic-Vidojkovic is an associate professor at the Faculty of Legal and Political Studies (FEPPS) in Novi Sad (Serbia). Her fields of research lie in the issues of Europeanisation of constitutional law, rights of national minorities, and challenges of democratic transformation.
In addition to her teaching and research activities, Professor Djordjevic-Vidojkovic is also active as a member of the Council on National Minorities of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia, an external expert of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, and the Ethnicity Research Center in Belgrade.
During her visit at TU Dresden in scope of the Eleonore Trefftz Programme, Professor Djordjevic-Vidojkovic offered the colloquium „Minderheitenschutz“ at the Faculty of Law and pursued research on the legal status of minority languages in European countries.
April 1 - September 30, 2017
Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics
Dr. Monica Dunford is a lecturer in physics and Akademische Rätin at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Dunford did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA) and then researched as Enrico Fermi Fellow at the University of Chicago (USA).
Since 2010, she has been involved in the research of the ATLAS experiment: from 2010 to 2012 as a CERN Fellow in Geneva and subsequently, as a junior research group leader at the University of Heidelberg, where she successfully completed her habilitation thesis in 2015.
Twice during the course of her career, she has been involved in research which later led to Nobel Prizes for Physics:
At the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) between 2002 and 2004, she made important contributions to publishing on neutrino oscillations. In 2015, Prof. Arthur McDonald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.
At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she laid the foundations for the operation of the trigger and the understanding of the hadronic calorimeter in the ATLAS detector. Based on the discovery of the Higgs boson at ATLAS in July 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Prof. Peter Higgs and Prof. Francois Englert in 2013.
Monica Dunford is known to the general public through her starring role in the feature film "Particle Fever" from 2014, which chronicled her work as a young scientist in the years before and during the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN.
She also used her talent for scientific communication at many other events, such as in co-ordinating the "Expand the Horizons" workshop for girls of 9 to 12 years of age in Geneva.
In Heidelberg, she is also an equal opportunities officer at the Faculty of Physics.
At the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics at TU Dresden, she collaborated closely with the three ATLAS research groups working there. In addition, she offered events for female students and the general public, as well as a new type of lecture in which students were able to experience the broad spectrum of research methods of particle physics in tutorials, using real data from ATLAS.
July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Prof. Madhuri Wuppulluri has been Assistant Professor of Physics at VIT University in Vellore (India) since 2009. She spent a year as Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professor at the Chair of Building Energy Systems and Heat Supply of TU Dresden.
She was part of a joint research group working with Prof. Joachim Seifert and the Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden on developing innovative energy-efficient cooling systems. This project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Prof. Wuppulluri also participated in several lectures in the field of materials sciences and material physics.
October 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017
Institute of Human Genetics
Dr. med. Gudrun Göhring has been senior consultant at the Institute of Human Genetics of the Hanover Medical School (MHH) since 2010. She studied medicine in Magdeburg and Hanover, and was awarded her doctorate in 2003 for her thesis “Einfluss von MDR1-Modulatoren auf die Chemotherapie kindlicher Lebertumoren in vitro” (The influence of MDR1-modulators on the chemotherapy of paediatric liver tumours in vitro). Since 2008, she has been a specialist in human genetics and in 2011, she completed her habilitation (the post-doctorate degree qualifying her as a university lecturer). Dr. Göhring is an internationally renowned tumour geneticist, who combines an outstanding expertise in tumour genetic diagnostics with experimental research on the induction of genetic instability in modified and malignantly transformed stem cells.
Her research work at the Institute of Human Genetics led to progress in the functional understanding of TP53 mutations in tumour genesis and to a strengthening of the collaboration between TU Dresden and the MHH. She also served as an important role model in the courses she taught as part of the Eleonore Trefftz Programme for Visiting Women Professors.
October 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
April 1 - September 30, 2016
Faculty of Computer Science
Christin Seifert studied Computer Science at the Chair of Artificial Intelligence at TU Chemnitz, and wrote her doctoral thesis at the Institute of Knowledge Management at TU Graz in Austria.
Since 2012, she has been a research assistant at the University of Passau.
During her stay at TUD, she contributed her expertise to the field of interactive visual data analysis at the Faculty of Computer Science in the area of media computer science. In doing so, she worked closely with the Chairs of Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Multimedia Technology, and Image Processing. This included, for example, the development of new user interfaces that are as natural as possible and that have interactive modalities such as multi-touch, pen input and eye control.
In the summer semester 2016, she gave a lecture and a tutorial on "Search User Interfaces".
April 1 - September 30, 2016
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Lucia Gemma Delogu has been Assistant Professor for Biochemistry at the Sassari University in Sardinia since 2012.
The Italian has been working as Post Doc at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles (USA) from 2007 to 2009. Before, she had written her master and PhD theses in the fields of Biology und Biochemistry in Sardinia.
Her research focus is on bionanotechnology for biomedical applications, e.g. for diagnosis and therapy technologies of breast cancer and treatments against this kind of tumor. Furthermore, she is doing research on gender-related topics, especially in the area of nanotechnologies and held lectures at TUD on the most important women leading scientists and their research conditions.
April 1 - September 30, 2016
Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Katja Loos is Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymer Materials and at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She completed her diploma degree in Chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz in 1996, and was awarded her doctorate in 2001 at the Universität Bayreuth. She has been a professor at Groningen since 2003, following a postdoctoral stay (working with Prof. Ulman) at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn.
Her research interests include the production of customised polymers using new, environmentally-friendly bio-catalytic methods. Prof. Loos is known predominantly for her key contributions in the field of enzymatic polymerisation and the study of self-organisation of polymers.
Her stay as Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professor supported teaching and research at the Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry in the field of bio-catalysis and sustainable production methods of synthetic materials. In joint projects with the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, new approaches in enzymatic catalysis and the design of carrier materials have been explored.
April 15 - June 30, 2016
Department of Psychology
Michelle Genevieve Craske is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and also Director of the Excellence Anxiety and Depression Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
As a clinical psychologist, Prof. Craske is an internationally acclaimed researcher who has produced pioneering experimental and clinical works on the causes and treatment of anxiety disorders and depression. In more than 400 specialist articles, she has devoted herself to researching the underlying mechanisms of these psychological disorders. Her findings of worldwide renown have led to a better understanding of the cause of these disorders and to new models of direct relevance for therapy.
An important focal point of her work at TUD was translational research, thus the "translation" of her basic findings into more effective methods of therapy for treating anxiety and depression. Her visiting professorship strengthened the intensive collaboration in this field between UCLA and TUD that has existed for decades; in terms of content, it complemented the nationwide BMBF joint project PROTECT, headed by the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, in which strategies for optimising exposure-based interventions in anxiety research are tested.
October 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016
School of Medicine
Dr. Pellegata studied Biology at the University of Pavia. After being awarded her doctorate, she worked as a postdoc at the Cancer Research Center of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio (USA).
She has been a research assistant at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich since 2002. She works at the Institute of Pathology, where she heads the Neuroendocrine Cell Transformation and Dysfunction Research Group.
Natalia Pellegata holds lectures on, among other things, “Molekulare Pathologie” (molecular pathology) and “Organspezifische Molekulare Tumorgenese” (organ-specific molecular tumorigenesis) at Technische Universität München.
In addition, she has conducted “role model” seminars for women researchers at TU München and the Helmholtz Zentrum München.
Together with Prof. Eisenhofer from TU Dresden’s Faculty of Medicine, she set up a new research project in the field of molecular endocrinology in the 2015/16 winter semester, and also taught Master’s students and doctoral candidates.
As part of her Trefftz visiting professorship, she also maintained cooperations with researchers from the DFG-financed “Dresden Adrenal Center” (Dr. T. Chavakis, Dr. Androutsellis-Theotokis, Dr. Ehrhart-Bornstein).
October 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Carolin Hauser has been a research assistant at the Department of Retention of Food Quality of the Fraunhofer Institute of Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) in Freising near Munich since 2008. She also has been equal opportunities officer at the IVV since 2014.
Between 2009 and 2011 she was a research assistant at the Chair of Food Packaging Technology of Technische Universität München, where she headed several research projects.
Dr. Hauser is a registered food chemist and gained her doctorate in 2012 at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on the topic of "Antimicrobial active packaging foil". As a guest researcher and postdoc, she spent several months on research visits on this topic at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
During her stay at TUD, Dr. Hauser strengthened the collaboration of TU Dresden with the Fraunhofer Institute at Freising and the Chair of Processing Machines and Processing Technology of Prof. Majschak as well as the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering of Prof. Bley in the area of hygienic production. This mainly involved the removal from product surfaces of micro-organisms that can lead to infectious diseases in consumers. Dr. Hauser also held lectures at TUD on this topic.
April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016
School of Medicine/BIOTEC
In 1986, Rachel Kraut completed her Bachelor‘s Degree in Biology at Yale University (USA) and gained her doctorate at Columbia University in New York in 1991.
She is currently Associate Professor of Biology at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The American was on a research visit for two semesters at BIOTEC and taught courses in the field of neurobiology for the various Master’s programmes. She also led laboratory practicals which employed optogenetic technologies for minimally invasive behavioural manipulation in fruit flies (Drosophila).
April 1 - September 30, 2015
Faculty of Architecture
Esther Hagenlocher studied at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and at the University of London’s Bartlett School of Architecture.
She is Associate Professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene (USA), where she has been teaching courses in Architecture and Interior Design since 2004.
For a number of years now, Esther Hagenlocher’s main area of research has been the “interaction of light and space”. She gave various seminars on that subject while staying at TU Dresden and assisted in setting up a special light laboratory at TUD, such as the one that has already existed in Oregon for some time.
Her experience was also in demand for the current BMBF Research Project “FARBAKS: Farbe als Akteur und Speicher – Historisch-kritische Analyse der Materialität und kulturellen Codierung von Farbe” (Colour as actor and memory - historical- critical analysis of the materiality and cultural codification of colour).
She was also involved in preparing an international Dresdner Farbenforum symposium on “Didactics of Colour in Architecture and Design”.
April 1 - September 30, 2015
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Ross Rinaldi completed her degree in Physics in 1991 at the University of Bari. In 1993, she was awarded the Italian Physical Society‘s prize for best junior researcher. She gained her doctorate in 1994 and then worked at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Lecce until 1999. In 2001, she was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Lecce.
Ross Rinaldi has been a professor at the University of Salento since 2006. She is head of the School of Natural Sciences, and is also the coordinator of a graduate academy for nanosciences.
Ross Rinaldi has published more than 240 articles in international scientific journals and more than ten monographs, as well as being the holder of eleven patents.
During the 2015 summer semester, Ross Rinaldi held a variety of lectures in the field of nanotechnology. In particular, these will be offered for the members of staff of the TUD Cluster of Excellence for Electronics, the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), as well as for the international Master’s Programmes for Nanobiophysics, Organic Molecular Electronics and Nanoelectronic Systems.
April 1 - September 30, 2015
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Ding holds a Chair of Phonetics and Speech Technology at the renowned Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, and has already spent many years researching into the development of language learning software.
After her studies in computational linguists at Shanghai Jiaotong University, she carried out research in the field of speech processing and synthesis at TU Dresden, where she also completed her doctoral and habilitation theses.
She was involved in the development of the language learning software AZAR (Automat zur Akzentreduzierung – a learning system for accent reduction). Prof. Ding is now working on the development of such a system for the Chinese language. To this end, she carried out research at the TUD Junior Chair for Cognitive Systems of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
► „AZAR killt den Akzent” - Frankfurter Rundschau; August 30, 2008
October 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015
Faculty of Transportation and Traffic Science "Friedrich List"
Assoc. Prof. Sigal Kaplan studied Civil Engineering and Transportation Engineering at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Master‘s 2000).
After working as a transport consultant and holding positions as a research and teaching assistant, she pursued PhD studies (2004 – 2010) on “Development and estimation of a semi-compensatory with a flexible error structure: application to residential choice”.
Following on from this, Prof. Kaplan spent a short time working as Senior Research Fellow at the Transportation Research Institute of Technion and in 2010, relocated to the Technical University of Denmark to take up a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Transport.
Since 2013, Prof. Kaplan has been Associate Professor of Traffic Modelling and Planning at the Technical University of Denmark.
The focus of her research is on traffic planning, traffic safety, traffic psychology and regional science. Methodologically, she specialises in the application and improvement of decision-oriented discrete-choice approaches.
October 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015
Faculty of Education
After completing her teacher training course at Pädagogische Hochschule Zwickau, Prof. Cornelia Wustmann initially worked as a qualified teacher and educationalist. From 1995, she did a post-graduate course in Social Pedagogy at TU Chemnitz, and from 1997 to 2001, was then a research assistant at the Chair of Social Pedagogy at TU Chemnitz.
On gaining her doctorate in April 2001, Prof. Wustmann relocated to TU Dresden, where she remained until 2008. During this time, she first took up a position as research assistant at the Chair of Social Education and then as project leader. After spending two years as substitute professor at the Chair of Didactics of Social Pedagogy at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Prof. Wustmann has held the Chair of Elementary Education at the Institute of Educational Science at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz since 2010.
She has gained many years of experience in research and teaching related to social and vocational pedagogy, in the field of elementary education, and in researching educational institutions under historical and regional aspects.
Within the context of the Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professorship at TU Dresden, her main area of research has been the subject “Childhood and Youth in Institutions”.
Meanwhile, she has been appointed as professor for Councelling and Social Relations at TU Dresden.
October 1, 2013 - September 30, 2014
Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Dr. Vladislava Maria Warditz originally comes from Riga (Latvia) and completed her doctorate at the Lomonosov University in Moscow. She then carried out research and taught in Poland, Germany, Austria and Israel. She wrote her habilitation thesis at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Potsdam.
Up to the closure of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Bonn, she was temporary head of the subject until March 2013.
Vladislava Warditz is a member of the Deutscher Slavistenverband (German Association of Slavists), the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (G.A.L.: the Society for Applied Linguistics), the International Association of University Lecturers of Russian Language and Literature (MAPRJaL), the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) and the Ethnolinguistic Commission of the International Committee of Slavists.
Her research priorities in language policy and language change in European languages as well as in socio-linguistics and contact linguistics also featured in her teaching at TU Dresden, in the courses of study “Slavonic Studies” and “European Languages”.
October 1, 2013 - September 30, 2014
Department of Mathematics
After studying Mathematics with a minor in Mechanical Engineering at TU Braunschweig, Dr. Anita Behme wrote her doctoral thesis on a topic from the area of stochastic processes at the university’s Institute of Mathematical Stochastics.
After receiving her doctorate in March 2011, she first spent a year at Michigan State University as Visiting Assistant Professor. Dr. Behme then relocated to TU München in the summer of 2012 to take up a position there as a member of the academic staff at the Institute of Mathematical Stochastics.
Dr. Behme’s research and teaching at TU Dresden was in the field of probability theory and statistics.
In September 2016, Anita Behme has been appointed as Professor for Applied Stochastics at TU Dresden.
October 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014
Department of Mathematics
Junior Professor Dr. Sina Ober-Blöbaum studied Engineering Mathematics (diploma in 2005) in Paderborn, where she subsequently also completed her doctorate (2008). Her dissertation dealt with the development of numerical optimal control methods, and in 2008, was awarded the prize for the best dissertation of the University of Paderborn.
After gaining her doctorate, Dr. Ober-Blöbaum spent one year researching as a post-doc at the California Institute of Technology in the field of Control and Dynamical Systems.
Since June 2009, she has been Junior Professor of Simulation and Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems in Mathematics at the University of Paderborn. In 2011, she was accepted as a member of the Junges Kolleg (programme for the promotion of outstanding young scientists) of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
After a temporary professorship at TU München in the 2011/12 winter semester, her successful interim evaluation as junior professor followed in July 2012.
September 1, 2013 - February 28, 2014
Department of Physics
Sabine Lammers originally comes from Chicago (USA) and is Assistant Professor for High Energy Physics at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA).
She is also a member of the staff involved in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN in Geneva (Switzerland).
She gained her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin for her thesis on the investigation of the structure of the proton, in the ZEUS experiment at HERA at the DESY site in Hamburg.
Together with the group of Prof. Kobel at the TUD Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Dr. Lammers researched into couplings of exchange particles of weak interaction. Furthermore, she was involved in courses on particle and nuclear physics in the 2013/14 winter semester.
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