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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Universitätsplatz
Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, 06108
Germany

Anne Knödler

Anne Knödler and Efy Zeniou represent LEAVINGHOMEFUNKTION on stage and share their incredible story.

Efy Zeniou

Anne Knödler and Efy Zeniou represent LEAVINGHOMEFUNKTION on stage and share their incredible story.

Jakob Gruhl

..is a cultural scientist, audio engineer and intermediary between creative and structural contexts. Within the scope of his diploma, he wrote about testimony and contemporary witnesses in exhibitions as participative elements. He worked as editor for an online video agency, gave music workshops for children and teenagers and was involved in different exhibitions as technical support and sound designer. Besides, he did lots of electronic music, performances and sessions with instrumental musicians. Jakob is responsible for the operative business of the company.

Jonathan Chase

Jonathan M. Chase is a professor of biodiversity synthesis at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Center for Computer Science of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He was born in the U.S. in 1970, studied at University of Michigan and Utah State and completed his Ph.D. at University of Chicago in 1998. After several positions in academia and research as well as numerous awards such as the American Society of Naturalists ‘Young Investigator Prize’ (1999) and the Saint Louis Academy of Sciences ‘Innovator Award’ (2009), Jonathan Chase, together with his wife and two children, moved to Germany in 2014. His current research activities focus on biodiversity and community ecology.

Katarina Braune

Dr. Katarina Braune is a young doctor who studied medicine in Halle (Saale) and works at Charité university hospital in Berlin. She tells the story of a young boy and his parents from Syria that she took in at the refugees’ emergency unit. They both have something in common: They both live with type 1 diabetes. This is the story about the challenges the boy faced as a refugee, from diagnosis in Syria during war, to his arrival in Germany, up to his on-going challenge of managing his disease after settling for a new home country.

Mareike Gast

Mareike Gast was born in 1979 in Hameln, completed her Foundation Studies in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2000-2001) and studied Industrial Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2001-2005). After working as a freelancer with Nicola Stattmann and others, she opened her own office in 2011 and started teaching at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, where she now holds the chair for industrial design. She is frequently involved in projects, gives talks and publishes about materials and technologies as a starting point of developing innovative and sustainable products.

Maren Kießling

Maren Kiessling discovered film during her training as a media graphic artist. In addition to her studies of media communication and art history in Halle, she also worked as a director, camera-woman, editor and production manager for various films. Furthermore, she worked as a media pedagogue and helped young people to implement their films. Today, she is a lecturer for film at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg at the Department of Media and Communication, is dedicated to the Cinema of the Future in her doctoral thesis and leads the research group "Fulldome, 3D & HFR".

Martin Staege

Martin Sebastian Staege was born in 1965 and began his Study of Biology in 1986 as well as his Study of Chemistry in 1988 at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. After the diploma in biology in 1992 he started with an experimental PhD „Research about the vitalization of cytotoxic t-cells with the function of antigen self-presentation“. In the following years he worked as a postdoc at the Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics in Munich and in the Faculty of Chemistry, Biochemistry II at University of Bielefeld. In 2001 he became Head of Laboratory at the Children’s Cancer Research Center, Department of Pediatrics at Martin-Luther-University Halle. Since 2016 he is a professor (apl.) at the Medical Faculty of Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His recent research topic concentrated on Gene Expression Music Algorithm (GEMusicA)-based characterization of the Ewing sarcoma stem cell signature Stem Cells. Martin Staege is a passionate piano player.

Michael Kolkmann

Dr. Michael Kolkmann is working as a teacher for special tasks at the Institute for Political Science of the MLU since 2011. However, his interest in political events in Germany and America has been accompanying him for several years. From 1993 to 1996 he studied political science and history at various universities in Germany and also at the American University in Washington, D.C. After his doctorate in Halle (Saale), he worked in Washington, D.C. at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. Afterwards, he moved to Germany again - to be precise in the House of Representatives to Berlin. Since 2008 he is working as a member of the Institute for Political Science in Halle (Saale).

Oliver Stoll

Oliver Stoll studied sports science, psychology and pedagogy at the University of Giessen as well as at the College of Charleston (S.C., USA). He became a Dr. phil. in the field of sports science at the University of Giessen. In 1995 he joined the University of Leipzig as a scientific assistant. With the focus on sports psychology and sports education, he became professor of sports science at the University of Halle in 2002. He mainly researches with "perfectionism", with the flow-experiences in sports and with the development and evaluation of sports psychological interventions in competitive sports. Furthermore, he developed the first university master's program in sports psychology in Germany.

Rebecca Waldecker

Born 1979 in Aachen, Rebecca Waldecker grew up close to Kiel at the Baltic Sea and also went to university there. Her subjects were mathematics, statistics and econometrics. After the Diplom she continued with a PhD in mathematics, specialising in group theory. The next stop was Birmingham (UK) from 2007 to 2009: first as an Honorary Lecturer, then as a Research Fellow. She returned to Germany in 2009 to take up a junior professorship for groups and geometries at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle, and since 2015 she is a professor for algebra and head of the mathematics institute. Rebecca Waldecker's research interests range from abstract and very theoretical group theory to applications for algebraic geometry or computational mathematics. She frequently teaches courses at summer academies, she is involved in outreach activities, in support and coaching for young researchers (e.g. with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and is one of the vice-presidents of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers.