Making women visible
"Only when the institutional memory of the university takes up the material and immaterial legacy of its female researchers, inscribes it again and again in the practices of remembrance and keeps it alive through critical discourse, can the young female academics teaching today actually be shown role models who are visible and remain visible."
Anne G. Kosfeld, Chief Gender Equality Officer
Making women visible
Women who are publicly recognised and acknowledged for their expertise and achievements promote a broader acceptance of female careers. At the same time, they motivate more women to pursue their own careers and drive social development towards equal opportunities. The diverse educational and professional paths highlight career opportunities and give young women self-confidence and faith in their own abilities. We would therefore like to make women who are employed at the University of Oldenburg visible.
Latest news
Prof Dr Ulrike Sallandt
Theology
Prof Dr Ulrike Sallandt has been appointed Professor of Protestant Theology with a focus on systematic theology and ecumenism at the Institute of Theology. In her research, she investigates how theological thinking can contribute to understanding between different religions and cultures.
A new educational culture
10 years of project work in Kenya
University research that strengthens the subject of education and has a direct impact on the local education system - that is the goal of the CERM-ESA project at Moi University in Kenya. After ten years of project work, coordinators Susan Kurgat and Malve von Möllendorff see clear successes.
Helene Lange Prize 2024
Robotics that support everyday life
For the development of assistance systems for people with disabilities, Sandra Drolshagen has been awarded the "Helene Lange Prize. Women in the digital world". The physicist is doing her doctorate at the university and is a research assistant at the OFFIS - Institute of Physics and Computing Science.
Prof Dr Anje Wulff
Health services research - Big Data
Prof Dr Antje Wulff has been appointed to the professorship for Big Data in Medicine at the Department of Health Services Research. She was previously a junior professor in this field at the UOL. The medical informatics specialist researches systems that support medical staff in everyday clinical decision-making.
Prof Dr Kathrin Boerner
Health services research
Prof Dr Kathrin Boerner has been appointed to the professorship for Prevention and Rehabilitation Research at the Department of Health Services Research. The psychologist specialises in various aspects of ageing research.
Prof Dr Ayça Polat
Social pedagogy
Prof Dr Ayça Polat is the new Professor of "Social Pedagogy in the Migration Society" at the Institute of Educational Sciences. The expert in critical migration research emphasises the social relevance of her subject area.
Prof Dr Rebecca Palm
Nursing science
Prof Dr Rebecca Palm has been appointed to the professorship of Nursing Science at the Department of Health Services Research. After training as a nurse at the German Heart Centre Berlin, she studied nursing science at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences and Witten/Herdecke University, where she also completed her doctorate in 2016 and worked as a professor. Her research focusses on the care of older people with dementia and gerontopsychiatric care needs.
Prof Dr Sarahi Garcia
Microbiology
Prof Dr Sarahi Garcia has been appointed to the professorship of "Pelagic Microbiology" at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment. Garcia studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (Mexico) and at the University of Georgia (USA). She completed her doctorate at the University of Jena. In 2019, she received a fellowship from the Swedish Science for Life Laboratory and became Assistant Professor at Stockholm University.
Prof Dr Gesa Wellmann
History of philosophy
Dr Gesa Wellmann has been appointed Junior Professor of History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy. She was previously a research assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wuppertal. Her research focus is on German Idealism, its impact and prehistory, the philosophy of the Enlightenment and postcolonial theory.
Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist
Digital education
Prof Dr Felicitas Macgilchrist has been appointed to the professorship "Digital Education in Schools" at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. She was previously Head of the Department of Media Transformations at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) in Braunschweig and Professor of Media Research specialising in educational media at the University of Göttingen.
Prof Dr Yulia Golub
University Medicine
Yulia Golub has been appointed to the professorship of paediatric and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at University Medicine Oldenburg. She will also take over the management of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (KJPP) at Oldenburg University Hospital, which will thus acquire the status of a university clinic.
Prof Dr Kerstin Avila
Wind energy research
Kerstin Avila has been appointed to the professorship "Fundamentals of Turbulence and Complex Systems" at the Institute of Physics. She is also a new member of the Centre for Wind Energy Research at the Universities of Oldenburg, Hanover and Bremen (ForWind). She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at the Department of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen and at the Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies (Leibniz-IWT) in Bremen.
Prof Dr Friederike Nastold
Art History
Friederike Nastold has been appointed junior professor for "Art History with a Focus on Gender Studies" at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg. In her research and teaching, Nastold combines questions from art and visual culture with approaches from gender and queer theory. Other research focuses include performance studies, psychoanalytical cultural theory and affect theory.
Prof Dr Pascale Sandmann
Clinical audiology
Pascale Sandmann has been appointed Professor of Clinical Audiology at the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. At the same time, she will take over as Head of the Audiology Department at the University Clinic for Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine at the Evangelical Hospital in Oldenburg.
Prof Dr Anja Steinbach
Educational sciences
Steinbach has been appointed Junior Professor of Educational Sciences specialising in school pedagogy and the critique of racism at the Institute of Educational Sciences. The junior professorship was established as part of a new BMWF junior research group "Continuities and Reformations of Institutional Racism in Schools" (KoNIR), which Steinbach acquired.
UGO award
Excellent research
This year, human geographer Dr Jennifer Turner and nutritionist Dr Rebecca Diekmann will be awarded the "Prize for Excellent Research" by the Oldenburg University Society. The "Prize for Outstanding Doctorate" goes to economist Dr Julia Tschersich.
Burçin Amet
The price of teaching
Amet was honoured for the course "Second and Foreign Language Acquisition: Theoretical Foundations". She taught students on the Master's degree programme in German as a Foreign/German as a Second Language in a weekly online format.
Dr Anna Warzybok-Oetjen
Meyer zum Gottesberge Prize
Dr Anna Warzybok-Oetjen was honoured by the German Society of Audiology (DGA). Her work has made an important contribution to the internationalisation of speech audiology, said laudator Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier, Head of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Oldenburg and spokesperson for the "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence, in recognition of the award winner.
Prof Dr Iliana Baums
Evolutionary ecologist
The evolutionary ecologist and coral expert has been appointed to the joint professorship for "Marine Conservation" at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. She will be conducting research at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB).
Prof Dr Michaela Kaiser
Art education and mediation
has been appointed to the professorship "Art Education and Art Mediation" at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg. She previously taught and researched at the University of Potsdam. One focus of Kaiser's research and teaching is the question of how inclusion is represented and can be shaped in art education contexts.
Prof Dr Mandy Roheger
Outpatient assessment
has been appointed Junior Professor for "Ambulatory Assessment in Psychology" at the Department of Psychology in School VI. She researches the cognitive functions and states of people in everyday situations. She is particularly interested in how the abilities to learn, remember, think and ...
Wiebke Middelberg
ARD/ZDF Sponsorship Award
Wiebke Middelberg, a doctoral candidate at the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics, was recently honoured in Bonn with third place in the ARD/ZDF "Women + Media Technology" 2022 prize, which is endowed with 2,000 euros. This is the first time that a female graduate from the University of Oldenburg has been successful in this competition.
Prof Dr Sinikka Lennartz
Biogeochem. Ocean modelling
Dr Sinikka Lennartz has been appointed Junior Professor of Biogeochemical Ocean Modelling at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM). She previously conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston (USA) with a scholarship from the Walter Benjamin Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) ...
Prof Dr Ulrike Feudel
Theoretical physics
Prof Dr Ulrike Feudel, university lecturer in theoretical physics with a focus on complex systems, has been awarded the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal by the European Geosciences Union. With this prize, the association of European geoscientists annually honours outstanding achievements in non-linear geophysics.
Prof Dr K. Tessmar-Raible
Marine chronobiology
She researches how nature "ticks": Prof Dr Kristin Tessmar-Raible has been appointed to the joint professorship of "Marine Chronobiology" at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) at the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven. The 44-year-old previously held a professorship for chronobiology at the Centre for Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna.
Maria Ahrnsen
Chemical-technical assistant
Maria Ahrnsen worked as a chemical-technical assistant at the universityfor almost 43 years. The 66-year-old has now retired. "We make sure that everything needed in the laboratories is there. We take care of repairing the equipment, provide all the chemicals and supervise the students on their practical training."
Prof Dr Antje Wulff
Big data in medicine
Dr Antje Wulff is a junior professor for "Big Data in Medicine" at the Department of Health Services Research. Her areas of specialisation include computer systems that provide diagnostic and predictive models for various diseases based on health data.
Prof. Dr Kathar. Schuhmann
German as a foreign language
Dr Katharina Schuhmann has been appointed Junior Professor of German as a Foreign Language at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg. She was previously Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University (USA).
DAAD Prize for Jingjing Xu
Neurosensory technology/Animal Navigation
Biologist Jingjing Xu has been researching at the University of Oldenburg since 2017, first as a visiting researcher and then as a doctoral candidate in Prof Dr Henrik Mouritsen's Neurosensory / Animal Navigation research group. She has now been honoured with the DAAD Prize.
Dr Sara Billerbeck
The price of teaching
The University of Oldenburg's "Teaching Prize" was awarded to six lecturers. Dr Sara Billerbeck was awarded in the category "Best Event".
Dr Gesine H. Seeber
DGOU Prize
Dr Annet Wijnen (University Medical Center Groningen), Dr Gesine H. Seeber (University Clinic for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery at Pius-Hospital Oldenburg) and Dr Martin Stevens (UMCG) have been honoured by the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) for their transnational research.
Dr Marion Koelle
UGO Prize: excellent research
Dr Koelle was awarded the University of Oldenburg Society (UGO) Prize for Excellent Research for her dissertation "Designing socially acceptable body-worn cameras", which was awarded "summa cum laude".
Prof Dr Urte Heldhuser
German studies
Dr Urte Helduser has been appointed to the professorship "Modern German Literature with Special Reference to Literary Theory" at the Institute for German Studies. She was previously Senior Academic Councillor at the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne.
Prof Dr Julia Wurr
English/American Studies
Dr Julia Wurr is the new junior professor for "Postcolonial Studies" at the Institute of English and American Studies. She was previously a research assistant at the University of Trier.
Prof Dr Kath Al-Shamery
Leibniz Association
The chemist Prof. Dr Katharina Al-Shamery has been elected to the "Senate Committee Evaluation" of the renowned Leibniz Association as of 1 November 2021.
Prof Dr Gundula Zoch
Social sciences
Dr Gundula Zoch has been appointed Junior Professor for the Sociology of Social Inequalities at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg.
Prof Dr Katharina Hombach
Economics
Prof Dr Katharina Hombach is the new Professor of Accounting and Corporate Governance at the Department of Business, Economics and Law. She was previously Assistant Professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Anne Gläser
Heusler-Edenhuizen Prize
Anne Gläser has been honoured with the "Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen Prize". The School of Medicine is honouring a publication by the young doctoral researcher, which was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences in 2020.
Prof Dr Heike Wehrheim
Theoretical Computing Science
Prof Dr Heike Wehrheim has been appointed to the professorship of "Theoretical Computing Science: Formal Methods" at the Institute of Computing Science. She was previously Professor of "Specification and Modelling of Software Systems" at the University of Paderborn.
Prof Dr Anna Langenbruch
Cultural history of music
Prof Dr Anna Langenbruch has been appointed to the professorship for "Cultural History of Music" at the Institute of Music. She was previously head of the junior research group "Music History on Stage" in the DFG's renowned Emmy Noether Programme.
Prof Violeta Dinescu
European Academy of Sciences
Prof Violeta Dinescu, Professor of Composition at the University of Oldenburg, has been elected Dean of the "Arts" discipline of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA).
Prof Dr Ulla Licandro
Heterogeneity and diversity
Prof Dr Ulla Licandro, previously a junior professor at the University of Oldenburg, has been appointed Professor of Heterogeneity and Diversity with a special focus on inclusive educational processes.
Dr Anna Levke Brütt
Health services research
The head of the junior research group Rehabilitation Research at the Department of Health Services Research, Dr Anna Levke Brütt, was awarded the "Prize for Health Services Research in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy" for her innovative research into patient-oriented care for people with mental disorders.
Dr Brokmann-Nooren
Dutch Order of Merit
Dr Christiane Brokmann-Nooren has been awarded the Netherlands Order of Merit for her decades of service to mutual understanding and German-Dutch friendship in the border region of north-western Germany and the north-eastern Netherlands.
Beybin Tunc
DAAD Prize
Master's student Beybin Elvin Tunç receives this year's DAAD prize for outstanding achievements by international students.
