Veronica Bremer is a post-doctoral research associate, lecturer, and advisor at Studium Individuale, the liberal arts programme at Leuphana. Her work explores the photography of Mariana Yampolsky and the sculpture of Elizabeth Catlett as part of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)) project „TransExil. Negotiations of Aesthetics and Community in Post-Revolutionary Mexico." Her work also explores visual culture and transformative pedagogy through visual and experiential learning and the didactics of art history.
Prof. Dr. Kevin Drews is a literary scholar and Junior Professor of Literature and Theory at Leuphana University. His research focuses on the critical role of literature in historical and contemporary moments of social crisis and transformation, as well as on the relationship between literature and historiography, the poetics of knowledge, and the work of Walter Benjamin.
Daniel is working as policy advisor for the Sustainability Forum Hamburg since September 2022. A graduate in political science and sustainability studies, he is coordinating a civil society network lobbying towards SDG achievement in the city of Hamburg. A particular focus of his work is on the issues of social-ecological transformation processes and sustainability interlinkages.
Dr. Rebecca Endtricht works as a Research Fellow in the Research Programme “Accountability and Participation” at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She completed her PhD at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on “Identity and Intolerance” as part of the MOTRA project (Monitoring System and Transfer Platform Radicalisation). She is a sociologist and criminologist whose work lies at the intersection of political sociology and social psychology. Her research focuses on collective identities, societal threat perceptions, political emotions, and the ideological foundations of right-wing extremism.
Oliver Genschow is professor for Cognitive-, Social-, and Economic Psychology. In his research, he mainly focuses on interaction patterns among humans with a strong focus on perception-action coupling, such as imitation, mimicry, and anticipated action as well as free will beliefs. As one of four editor-in-chiefs of the In-Mind magazine, Oliver Genschow supports science communication from scientifically working psychologists.
Dr. Markus Groth is an economist and senior researcher at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS). A key focus of his work is on the impacts of climate change on critical infrastructure, including disaster preparedness and relevant regulatory frameworks. More broadly, he investigates how climate change affects key areas of society and collaborates with practitioners to develop climate services for companies, cities and counties, supporting them in adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Wolfgang Minatti (he/him) is a postdoctoral research associate at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. His research focuses on the legitimacy, governance and violence of armed actors during conflict with a particular focus on the Colombian conflict. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and was a visiting research fellow at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia (2021) and at the centre of excellence SCRIPTS at the Free University Berlin (2022). His work has appeared, inter alia, in Review of International Studies, Journal of Peace Research and Qualitative Research.
Dr. Christine Nam is a senior climate scientist who is working at the nexus of climate change, space, and security. Her recent publications in the journal of Space Policy demonstrated that climate change poses significant safety and security risks to European space sovereignty and the broader NATO alliance. This work laid the foundation for her selection as one of the inaugural fellows of the NATO Climate Change and Security Center of Excellence in 2025.
Dr. Maxine Rubin is a research fellow at the Institute of African Affairs at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies. She is also a research associate at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and the co-Editor-in-Chief of the African studies journal, Africa Spectrum. Her research interests include state behaviour in the International Criminal Court, South African politics and international relations, and various transitional justice themes.
Tuba Sari is a Research Associate and Academic Advisor for the Master´s Programme in Law at Leuphana Law School and has been teaching in the training programme for the Refugee Law Clinic Lüneburg since April 2025. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at Bucerius Law School, where her research focuses on categories of extremism within the legal framework governing Germany´s domestic intelligence services. Tuba Sari studied law at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her First State Examination in Law in 2023, with a specialization in Crime and Crime Control.
Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz has been Junior Professor at the School of Sustainability and the Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO) since September 2022. Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz is also an associate member of Leuphana Law School and the Leuphana Center for European and International Law (CEIL). He is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS), and German delegate in the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Protection of People at Sea. Prof. Dr. Valentin Schatz frequently advises NGO, governmental authorities and think tanks on questions of international law, such as maritime security, marine environmental protection and fisheries.
Marlene Schulz is pursuing her Ph.D. at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media in the field of the philosophy of technology as a member of the AI and Explainability (AIX) Research Group. In her dissertation, she examines the ontological distribution of agency across entities within the genesis of technology, particularly AI. With her background in the humanities, she has explored the history, aesthetics and ethics of AI in relation to implications for autonomy both in humans and machines.
Vera-Simone Schulz is W1 professor for transcultural art history at Leuphana University. Working at the crossroads of African, Islamic and European art histories and critical museology, she is academic coordinator of Black Archive Alliance at the Recovery Plan, and co-founder of Planetary Patchwork: A Perpetual Seminar on Artistic Practices, Heritage, and Epistemologies, sounding out possible alliances between academic and artistic research. Funded by the Gerda Henkel and the Volkswagen Foundation, she directs projects that question traditional notions of center and periphery, challenge conventional art historical hierarchies, and foreground perspectives from the Majority World.
Isabell Sluka is a Research Associate for Community Development at the Leuphana AI Campus, where she contributes to the development and coordination of the AI Literacy Hub, a hybrid space for collaboration and experimentation in AI literacy education. She creates and facilitates opportunities for knowledge exchange, connecting people across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Greenhouse Studios, an interdisciplinary research incubator at the University of Connecticut. She holds a PhD in German Studies and researches the sociopolitical implications of digital technologies, with a particular focus on participation and belonging.
Lukas Tank is a moral philosopher who works in applied and normative ethics, with a special focus on the ethics of climate change. He holds positions at CAU Kiel, HU Berlin and PLU Salzburg.
Monika Wulz is a philosopher and historian of science at Leuphana University. Her research focuses on „Economies of Intellectual Work“ from the 19th century to the present and on the history of „Non-aligned Science“ in the era of decolonization and development policies.
Natascha Zaun is Professor of Public Policy and Law at the Institute of Political Science at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Prior to coming to Lüneburg, she was first Assistant and later Associate Professor at European Institute of the London School of Economics. Natascha specialises in EU policymaking with a special focus on policymaking in the area of immigration and asylum as well as the global refugee regime.
