HIGRADE CareerCafé - Archive

Exiting guests from past HIGRADE CareerCafés had very different backgrounds: 


31 May 2018

  • Anja Mutschler (M.A.), Founder and Managing Partner of NIMIRUM, Leipzig. Nimirum is a research and consulting company based in Leipzig and Bristol / UK. They support decision makers from business and administration with scientifically founded expertise and consulting mandates in three main areas - social and economic change, man and machine, and consumer and target group biographies.
  • Dr. Carsten Mahrenholz, Founder and CEO of COLDPLASMATECH GmbH, Greifswald. Coldplasmatech is a spin-off from the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP). The Greifswald founders have developed an innovative high-tech plaster that uses the physical properties of cold plasma to treat and permanently cure chronic and painful wounds.
  • Milina Rochelle Alber, Department of Knowledge and Technology Transfer, UFZ, Leipzig. She is responsible for Spin-offs, Entrepreneurship, and Coaching in the Department of Knowledge and Technology Transfer, which provides support to UFZ scientists in the process of transferring research results to society via economically viable products and services.

27 September 2017 

  • Prof. Dr. Oliver Bossdorf, Head of Plant Evolutionary Ecology Group at the Institute of Evolution & Ecology, University of Tübingen
  • Dr. Carla Gimkiewicz, Executive Specialist Environmental Health and Safety, BASF, Berlin
  • Dr. Randy Kurz, Manager of Technology Transfer, BIO-NET LEIPZIG Technologietransfergesellschaft mbH, Leipzig

18 November 2016

  • Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst, Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Link
  • Dr. Subhashree Das, Bayer CropScience, R&D Computational Life Science, Monheim Link
  • Dr. Anko Fischer, Isodetect GmbH, Leipzig Link

10 June 2016

  • Dr. Nina Klar, City of Hamburg, Ministry for the Environment and Energy, Division for Nature Conservation and Species Protection link
  • Finn Bastiansen, Consultant (Risk assessor for plant protection products), RIFCON, Hirschberg link
  • Dr. Sabine Thüns, Service Engineer, Bruker Daltonics, Unterföhring link

09 October 2015

  • Dr. Horst-Dietrich Elvers, Head of the Public Health Services Unit, District Authority Friedrichshain Kreuzberg/Berlin link
  • Joachim Kleinmann, Msc. Geoecology, WSC Regexperts (environmental risk assessment), Heidelberg link
  • Dr. Marten Winter, Scientific Coordinater of sDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig link
  • Jana Schmidt, Scientific Officer at Federal Environment Agency (UBA), area: biocides link

30 April 2015

  • Prof. Dr. Britta Tietjen, Freie Universität Berlin link
  • Ogarit Uhlmann, Msc., Co-Founder of F&U Confirm link
  • Dr. Sebastian Leschik, CDM Smith Consult GmbH link
  • Dr. Susanne Rudzok, State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Production NRW link
  • Dr. Henning Steinicke, Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences link