Prof. Dr. Christoph Strünck, dean of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Siegen, is a social scientist. Dr. Kazim Topuz serves as an Assistant Professor specializing in Business Analytics and Operations Management at the Collins College of Business, University of Tulsa, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Together, they conduct interdisciplinary research into our healthcare system. Click here to read more.

Prof. Dr. Anna Pandolfi and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kerstin Weinberg are currently investigating a special type of concrete. Concrete is a construction material particularly apt to sustain compressive loads, but this material performs less well when exposed to impact or long-term vibrations that induce a tensile state. Tensions are dangerous because they may cause cracks, which shorten the life of the material.Likewise, repetitive vibrations may reduce the mechanical properties of the material. The scientists and their team have been trying to develop a material that consists of concrete with inclusions that can absorb some of the mechanical energy. In this way, part of the vibration energy can be subtracted from the concrete which is then no longer so strongly exposed to this energy. This material could then be used, for example, under the rails of trains or under rotating machines in oil drilling Click here to read more.

Most rural communities in Ghana, citizens find it difficult or are even sometimes not able to access basic public services such as education and health facilities. Inadequate information communication and dissemination also limits their ability to participate in local government activities. The Nsawam-Adoagyiri and Suhum municipalities in the Eastern region of Ghana are no exception. Prof. Schädler's team is researching in these and other municipalities in Ghana on ways to integrate the rural population more into social and public life. They are looking at ways in which ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies) can be used to bridge the communication gap in rural communities in Ghana. Prof. Dr. Johannes Schädler is heading the research team, which is part of the Centre for Planning and Development of Social Services (ZPE). This highly reputed research center is engaged in the planning and development of social infrastructure on a local level. Dr. Paul Kwaku Larbi Anderson is a member of the FACIL-ICT Ghana research team. Click here to read more.

The University of Siegen has and continues to build strong connections with partner universities across the world. One of those partnership began with the close research collaboration between Dr. Efua Esaaba Mantey Agyire-Tettey and her PhD supervisor, Prof. Dr. Johannes Schädler. Since completing her PhD at the University of Siegen, Efua, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, has maintained a close research partnership with Prof Schaedler and the Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Social Services. read more

Prof. Dr. María Cristina Osorio Vázquez is a professor and a researcher based in the south of Mexico, much of her research is focused on the education of adolescent girls in small indigenous communities, particularly Mayan speaking communities on the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan. She has come to Siegen to work with Dr. Christian Koch, who is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Siegen who specializes in linguistics and didactics of Romance languages, on a joint project.   read more

Prof. Dr. María Cristina Osorio Vázquez is a professor and a researcher, based in the south of Mexico, and specialize in challenges and barriers to girls’ education in Mexico, particularly for Maya girls. much of her research is focused on the education of adolescent girls in small indigenous communities, particularly Mayan speaking communities on the Mexican peninsula of Yucatan. Christian is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Siegen who specializes in linguistics and didactics of Romance languages.  read more

Prof. Dr. Jordi Jané-Lligé is from Barcelona and works as a lecturer and researcher in the English and German Studies Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is currently working on the translations of Günter Grass into Catalan and Spanish. His field of work is German studies and the theory and history of translation. For several years he has been trying to apply the systems theory perspective to the analysis of literary translation processes.  read more

Dr. Zhen-Peng Xu has come to the University of Siegen to continue his postdoctoral research into quantum physics. He is no stranger to research abroad, having undertaken a research visit to the University of Seville in Spain during his PhD which he began at the Chern Institute of Mathematics in Tianjin, China. He is now based at the Theoretical Quantum Optics Group in Siegen, which has been headed by Prof. Otfried Gühne since his arrival at the University of Siegen in 2018.   read more

Dr. Zhen-Peng Xu is presently working as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Siegen supported by the Alexander-von-Humboldt research fellowship. He originally works as a scientist at Chern Institute of Mathematics in China and his research is focused around quantum optics with an emphasis on quantum networks.  read more

The most recent edition of the Alumni Academy has begun, featuring 18 international alumni and research alumni coming together to discuss, develop and implement projects on digital teaching.
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