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Dr. Kai Bremer
Professor of Modern German Literature
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of German and Dutch Languages and Literatures
Modern German Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Literature of the early modern period
- Drama
- Contemporary drama
- Contemporary poetry
- Contemporary theatre
- Theatre criticism
- Rhetoric
- church history
- historical conversion research
- confessionalisation research
- philology
- editorial philology
- verse epic
- cultural history
Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Near East
- Assyrians
- Babylonians
- Sumerians
- Akkadians
- Israel
- Syria
- Iraq
- Middle East
- Astronomy
- Astrology
- Science
- Early states
- School and education in pre-modern societies
- History of knowledge
- Oldest writing
- Decipherment
- Nimrud
- Nineveh
- Libraries
- Cuneiform
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Ancient Near East, Near East, Middle East: History and cultural history
- 4. - 1st millennium BC
- History of the influences of the Ancient Near East to the present day
- Ancient Near East and Europe: mythology
Dr. Tim Conrad
Professor of Medical Bioinformatics
Zuse Institute Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Bioinformatics
- Proteomics
- Omics
- Data science
- Biological networks
- Big data
- Smart data
- Liquid biopsy
- Analysis of biological mass data
Dr. Dina Emundts
Professor of Philosphy
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Philosophy
Habelschwerdter 30, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- History of philosophy, especially Kant and Hegel
- Metaphysics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mind (in part also theory of feelings, especially gratitude and conscience)
Dr. Minu Haschemi Yekani
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut
Global History
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- History of racism
- German colonial history
- Politics of remembrance and memory studies
- History of migration
Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Professor of North American Studies
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of History
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural history of the United States
- Alltagsgeschichte (history from below)
- History of New York
- Slavery in the United States of America
- African American history
- Gender history
- Political productions and rituals
- Rumors
Dr. Harm Kuper
Professor of Education
Department of Education and Psychology
Further Education and Educational Management
Habelschwerdterallee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Continuing education
- Education management
- Education reporting
- Education statistics
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Christoph Neuberger
Professor of Media and Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Digitalization and Participation
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Digital change in journalism and the public
- Social media
- Platforms
- Public radio
- Media quality
- Media regulation
- Knowledge and the public
Dr. Michael Niedeggen
Professor of Psychology
Department of Education and Psychology
General Psychology and Neuropsychology
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Neuropsychology
- Attention
- Memory
- Cognitive impairment in old age
- Perception and awareness
Dr. Michaela Sambanis
Professor of English Didactics
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
Language, Emotion and Movement
- Translational research as a link between brain research and the practice of teaching and learning foreign languages
Drama Pedagogy in Teaching English and in Teacher Training
- Early acquisition of foreign languages
- Mixed-age learning settings
- English instruction tailored to specific individual needs
Dr. Daniel Schubert
Professor of Biology
Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy
Institute of Biology
Plant Epigenetics
Königin-Luise-Straße 12-16, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Epigenetics
- Developmental biology of plants
- Chromatin regulation
Dr. Regine Schönenberg
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Organized crime
- Natural resource management
- Land management
- Intercultural learning
- Biography research
- Scenario research
Dr. Thomas Stodulka
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Politcal and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9 - 11, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- “Street children”
- Emotions
- Affects
- Stigmatization
- Childhood
- Youth
- Indonesia
- Culture and mental illness
- Social inequality
- Ethnography
Dr. Anita Traninger
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Rhetoric (history, theory, practice)
- University History
- Media History and New Media
- Gender Studies
- Global Literature
- Spanish Literature
- French Literature