Scholarship Recipients' Council

The scholarship recipients' council is the representation of the scholarship recipients of the HYT Young Academy. It consists of two representatives of the doctoral researchers, who are elected annually. The members of the scholarship recipients' council meet regularly with the team of the House of Young Talents and are important contact persons e.g. for the planning of the semester programme of the Young Academy. The scholarship recipients of the Young Academy can contact the members of the council at all times with their concerns (problems, wishes, suggestions).

The members of the scholarship recipients' council can be contacted through the following e-mail address:

The elected members of the scholarship recipients' council for the election period 2024/2025 are:
Philipp Spelten Philipp has been doing his doctorate at the University of Siegen since November 2023 as a House of Young Talents scholarship recipient. His doctoral project is in the field of fluid mechanics (Faculty IV); more specifically, he is researching noise emissions from wind turbines. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, swimming and hiking.
Svitlana Stupak Svitlana has been a scholarship holder of the Young Academy since October 2022. In her dissertation in English Studies (Faculty I), she deals with the textual and cultural analysis of US-American comics and graphic novels and asks how humour (or irony) manifests itself aesthetically and politically in these texts.