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Meet your Scientists

With our new Meet your Scientists format, you can experience science at first hand: get into direct conversation with researchers from the region. At several themed tables, you will meet scientists from various disciplines in small groups of no more than four people.

In four rounds of talks lasting 15 minutes each, the researchers will give you an insight into their work, tell you what drives them and show you the questions that concern them. You will also have the opportunity to ask specific questions and find out more about the background, challenges and goals of current research.

Get to know the people behind the science - personally, approachably and at eye level. During the breaks between the talks and afterwards, there will be an open exchange of ideas over drinks and snacks.

Free admission for students
Registration: events@dai-heidelberg.de

With:

Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach
How can noble gas isotopes in groundwater be used to draw conclusions about past climate conditions?
Professor at the Institute for Environmental Physics, Heidelberg University

Dr. Martina Benešová-Schäfer
How can radionuclides be used to diagnose and treat cancer?
Head of the Translational Radiotheranostics Research Group, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Dr. Tobias Buck
How can the formation and evolution of galaxies be modeled using cosmological simulations and machine learning?
Group leader, AstroAI Lab, Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg University

Prof. Dr. Jens Bucksch
Are our city centers livable?
Professor of Community Health Promotion, Heidelberg University of Education

Dr. Florian Helfer
“That's how it was” – or was it completely different? What school textbooks (don't) tell our children about history.
Academic advisor in the Department of History and its Didactics, Institute for Social Sciences, Heidelberg University of Education

Prof. Dr. Steffi Sachse
How can I tell if my child is linguistically fit?
Deputy Head of the Institute of Psychology, Heidelberg University of Education

Dr. Stefanie Koeb
How do children on the autism spectrum learn?
Senior Academic Advisor at the Institute for Special Education, Heidelberg University of Education

Prof. Dr. Markus Lang
How do blind people read?
Professor, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Institute of Special Education, Heidelberg University of Education

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Moos
How can science contribute to the ethical questions of our time? How can we establish a productive dialogue between science and society?
Professor of Systematic Theology (Ethics), Heidelberg University

Dr. Frauke Mücksch
Why can HIV remain “hidden” in the body despite effective therapy? How can we better understand this viral hiding place?
Head of the “HIV-1 Infection and Latency” research group at the Center for Integrative Infectious Diseases Research, Heidelberg University Hospital

Prof. Dr. Jörg Peltzer
What role does rank play in pre-modern societies?
Professor of Comparative Regional History in a European Perspective at the Department of History, Heidelberg University

Prof. Dr. Daniel Scherf
Can adults (still) learn to read?
Professor of German Literature and its Didactics, Institute for German Language and Literature, Heidelberg University of Education

Dr. Gudrun-Christine Schimpf
How does knowledge from the humanities and social sciences influence politics, economics, and society?
Research associate at the Center for Social Investment and Innovation (CSI) at Heidelberg University

Prof. Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel
How can tailor-made materials be designed to interact specifically with cells or microorganisms?
Professor at the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials, Heidelberg University

Dr. Veli Vural Uslu
How can we use plants' natural defense mechanisms to combat pests in a targeted manner while protecting the environment and biodiversity?
Group leader “Translational Epigenetics” at RLP AgroScience GmbH and lecturer at the Center for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University

JProf. Dr. Tom Wellmann
Is that philosophy or can it be discarded?
Assistant professor, Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Institute of Philosophy and Ethics, Heidelberg University of Education

Prof. Dr. Thomas Höfer
How do we understand the mechanisms that enable premalignant clones to grow in normal tissues and eventually develop into fully-fledged malignant tumors?
Head of Theoretical Systems Biology, Functional and Structural Genomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

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