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
- 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
- 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
- Gunda Habich - Master's programmes - gunda.habich@leuphana.de
- Maria Sick - Marketing & communications - maria.sick@leuphana.de
- Janka Harger - Doctorate: Event- and programme management - janka.harger@leuphana.de
- Savelii Bartashevich - Sub-project 9: DigiTaL Projekt/Social Media - savelii.bartashevich@leuphana.de