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Thinking Research Globally

Research Explorer Ruhr 2025 starts

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Group photo of this year's Research Explorer Ruhr. © Fabian Strauch​/​UDE
28 international researchers are guests at the University Alliance Ruhr through the Research Explorer Ruhr. They exchange ideas with their hosts at the universities in Bochum, Dortmund and Duisburg-Essen and build up valuable networks.
From 22 June to 5 July 2025, the Research Explorer Ruhr summer program will once again bring international early career researchers from various disciplines to the Ruhr metropolis of knowledge. Organized by the Research Academy, the two-week format offers prospective and early postdocs the opportunity to get to know the research landscape of the University Alliance Ruhr - as well as the Ruhr region as an attractive place to live and work. The international guests will also take part in the Global Young Faculty Event on June 30, for which early career researchers of the University Alliance Ruhr can register until June 27.

The Research Academy is welcoming 28 bright minds from 14 countries of origin to the Ruhr region this summer. At Research Explorer Ruhr 2025, international early career researchers will spend two weeks immersed in the German science system, exploring funding landscapes and career paths. The close cooperation with host professors and their working groups at Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University and the University of Duisburg-Essen creates the best conditions for sustainable collaborations. Ideally, the program will lead to a longer research stay at the University Alliance Ruhr with the help of a successful third-party funding application.

“At the University of Duisburg-Essen, we are delighted to have twice as many international guests this year compared to last year,” says Simon Kresmann, Head of the Graduate Center Plus at the University of Duisburg-Essen. "In total, over 30 professors from the UA Ruhr applied to be hosts. This shows how lively and open our universities are."

A special highlight awaits on June 30, 2025: the Global Young Faculty Event, which is taking place this year at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities in Essen, is all about the opportunities of international mobility in science. Under the motto “Thinking research globally”, renowned academics and early career researchers will discuss how international experiences shape careers - beyond labs and textbook knowledge. The event will be moderated by Dr. Mark Halawa-Sarholz, Academic Managing Director of the College.

The program on 30 June at a glance:

  • Keynote: "Academic activities and productivity of mobile academics"
    Prof. Dr. Liudvika Leišytė, Professor of Higher Education Research and Deputy Director at the Center for Higher Education (zhb), TU Dortmund University
     
  • Panel discussion with:
    • Dr. Harikrishnan Aravindakshan, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ruhr University Bochum
    • Prof. Dr. Doris Hellerschmied-Jelinek, Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen
    • Prof. Dr. Sebastian Peitz, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University
    • Prof. Dr. Jessie Pons, CERES, Ruhr- Universität Bochum

The event is open to all UA Ruhr researchers. Registration is possible until 27.06.2025, 12:00 noon: https://www.research-academy-ruhr.de/programm/gyf-event.html

The participants of the Research Explorer Ruhr are distributed across the three universities as follows:

  • Boridczenko, Stanisław; Host: Prof. Dr. Sören Urbansky
  • Mnatsakanyan, Sona; Host: Prof. Dr. Sören Urbansky
  • Santos, Daniel; Host: Prof. Dr. Lukas Gooßen
  • Lhamo, Pema; Host: Prof. Dr. Dirk Tischler
  • Tiwari, Ravi Kumar; Host: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Flörke
  • Antunes Pinto Coelho, Tulio; Host: Prof. Dr. Roger Sauer
  • Sharma, Hariom; Host: Prof. Dr. Alexander Ivanov
  • Dagar, Prem; Host: Prof. Dr. Alexander Ivanov
  • Cadena Vizuete, Maria Fernanda; Host: Prof. Dr. Barbara Sitek
  • Dos Santos de Moraes, Maria Vitória; Host: Prof. Dr. Eike Steinmann
  • Burciu, Roxana-Diana; Host: Prof. Dr. Hannah Zagel
  • Samreen, Khush Bakhat; Host: Prof. Dr. Toni Gossmann
  • Althobaiti, Anas; Host: Prof. Dr. Alexander Marx
  • Nyoko, Antonio Eli Lomi; Host: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Daniela Gimenez-Jimenez
  • Oliveira, Danilo de Jesus; Host: Prof. Dr. Toni Gossmann
  • Tripathi, Shikha; Host: Prof. Dr. Toni Gossmann
  • Bordbar, Arman; Host: Prof. Dr. Nils Weimann
  • Cao, Weiwei; Host: Prof. Dr. Stephan Barcikowski
  • Cho, Jaehun; Host: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kiesel
  • Dos Santos Rocha, Roberto; Host:  Prof. Dr. Ralf Plattfaut
  • Liu, Pengcheng; Host: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carolin Birk
  • Liu, Qi; Host: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Timmann-Braun
  • Mankenberg, Jacob; Host: Prof. Dr. Karin Everschor-Sitte
  • Myrovali, Eirini; Host: Prof. Dr. Michael Farle
  • Ortega Ochoa, Elvis Gerardo; Host: Prof. Dr. Michael Kerres
  • Papadopoulos, Kyrillos; Host: Prof. Dr. Sabrina Disch
  • Ramos Pereira, Ana Paula; Host: Prof. Dr. Oliver Schmitz
  • Wu, Yinhao; Host: Prof. Dr. Rolf Kuiper
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