The Graduate School Staff

Vice President for Graduate School, Quality Development and Teacher Training

  • Prof. Dr. Simone Abels

Managing Director

  • Dr. Anja Soltau

Deputy Managing Director and Director Master's Area

  • Claudia Echelmeyer, M.A.

Office Management, Finances and Qualification Fund

  • Susanne Wenzel

Office Management: Personnel, appointment coordination and events

  • Dana Baumgarten

If you have any general questions about our study programmes, please contact Leuphana's Infoportal.

Marketing and Communications

  • Helge Hansmann
  • Jonas Kernein

STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE MASTER

  • Tom Kleist, M.Sc.
  • Luisa Hilmer

Here you will find all the information, open consultation hours and contact options of the Student Counselling Service for those interested in and students of our Master's degree programmes.

Counselling, Coaching and competence development

  • Dr. Nadine Dablé

Here you will find all the information, open consultation hours and contact options regarding the counselling and coaching offers for those interested in doing a doctorate and doctoral candidates.

Academic Events

  • Luisa Hilmer

Internationalization

    Administrator | Project: Embracing Transformation

    Simon Benhöfer

    • Strategic Inter­nationali­zation of Graduate Education 

    Cultural Studies

    Dean of the studies

    • Prof. Dr. Christina Wessely

    Administrator

    • Petra Nietzky
    •  Cul­tu­ral Stu­dies: Cul­tu­re and Or­ga­niza­t­i­on (M.A.)
    •  Cul­tu­ral Stu­dies: Art, Theo­ry, His­to­ry (M.A.)
    •  Kul­tur­wis­sen­schaf­ten: Me­di­en und Di­gi­ta­le Kul­tu­ren (M.A.)
    • Theory and History of Modernity (M.A.)

    Governance and Law

    Dean of the studies

    • Prof. Dr. Dawid Friedrich

    Administrator

    • Dr. Elena Kropacheva
    • In­ter­na­tio­nal Eco­no­mic Law (LL.M.)
    • Public Affairs and Democracy (M.Sc.)
    • Public Affairs and Economics (M.Sc.)

    Administrator

    • Maike Eisenberg
    • International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (LL.M.)

    Administrator

    • Isabelle Bergmann-Casagranda
    • Tuba Sari
    • Rechtswissenschaft (LL.M.)

    Management

    Dean of the studies

    • Prof. Dr. Matthias Wenzel

    Administrator

    • Julia Oehmichen
    •  Ma­nage­ment & Data Sci­ence (M.Sc.)
    •  Ma­nage­ment & En­gi­nee­ring (M.Sc.)
    •  Management & Entrepreneurship (M.Sc.)
    •  Ma­nage­ment & Sustainable Ac­coun­ting and Fi­nan­ce (M.Sc.)

    Administrator

    • Dr. Agnes Friedel
    • In­ter­na­tio­nal Joint Mas­ter of Re­se­arch in Work and Or­ga­niza­t­io­nal Psy­cho­lo­gy (M.Sc.)

    Sustainability

    Dean of the studies

    • Prof. Dr. Roman Trötschel

    Administrator

    • Patricia Maria Bauer
    • Sustainability Science: Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Society (M.Sc.)
    • Sustainability Science: Entrepreneurship, Agency and Leadership (M.A.)
    • Sustainability Science: Governance and Law (M.A.)
    • Sustainability Science: Resources, Materials and Chemistry (M.Sc.)
    • Glo­bal Sustaina­bi­li­ty Sci­ence (M.Sc.)

    Administrator

    • Dr. Agnes Friedel
    • Psychology & Sustainability (M.Sc.)

    Complementray Studies

    Academic Director

    • Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes

    Engaging with Knowledge and Sciences

    • Prof. Dr. Roberto Nigro

    Reflecting on Research Methods

    • Prof. Dr. Henrik von Wehrden

    Connecting Science, Responsibility and Society

    • Prof. Dr. Jacob Hörisch

    Administrator

    • Claudia Echelmeyer, M.A.

    Doctorate

    Administrator

    • Dr. Anton Guhl
    • Coordination Doctoral Courses
    • Coordination Doctoral Track
    • Consultant Doctoral Research Groups
    • Public Relations Doctoral Programmes

    Administrator

    • Yvonne Worthmann, M.P.A.
    • Coordination Qualification Fund
    • Management of the Senate Commission on Scientific Qualification and Career Development
    • Coordination of the Dissertation Award
    • Coordination of doctoral regulations
    • Project support for myCampus in the field of the doctorate

    Administrator | Project: Embracing Transformation

      Dr. Anna Heudorfer

      • Coordination of the doctoral programme and corresponding scholarships

      Third-party funded projects Graduate School

      Embracing Transformation (ET) (VolkswagenStiftung/MWK Niedersachsen) (2025-2030)

      Academic training / Doctoral programme and corresponding scholarships

        Strategic Internationalization of Graduate Education

          Leuphana AI Campus (LAICA) (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, StIL) (2025-2029)

          Administrator for AI Literacy in Graduate Education

            Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning (DigiTaL) (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, StIL) (2021-2025)

            - Teilprojekt 6: Skills for a Digital Future

            • Gitte Köllner

            Digital Transformation Lab for Teaching and Learning (DigiTaL) (Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, StIL) (2021-2025)

            - Teilprojekt 9: Digital teaching-learning formats for the internationalisation of the Master's and doctoral phase

            • Dr. Anna Sundermann

            Student assistant staff