Chief Communications Officer (CCO)

Background

• Since March 2023 Chief Communications Officer at the University of Jena
• Since February 2019 Head of Communications and Marketing at the University of Jena
• 2011–2019 Head of the Communications and Fundraising Department at the University of Mannheim, Deputy Head of the President's Office
• 2003–2011 Employee in the President's Office at the University of Mannheim, Project Manager University Anniversary, Fundraising, Committee Management, Deputy Media Spokeswoman
• 2000–2003 Collaboration in the Seminar for Ancient History at the University of Mannheim, doctoral studies in the history of science, freelance editor
• 2000 Magister Artium in Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, University of Mannheim
• 1993–1999 Studies in History, English, Latin and Communication Science at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg and Classics in Cambridge (Clare College 1998)

Prizes, honours and awards

• 2022: Research Spokesperson of the Year 2022 in the category "Research Institutes and Universities"
• 2021: First place, Central German Fundraising Award for the Corona Emergency Fund of the Society of Friends and Patrons of the University of Jena
• 2016: First place, German University Fundraising Award for the "outstanding major gift fundraising" of the University of Mannheim
• 2012: PR Picture of the Year 2012 for the photo "Basketball in the Knights' Hall" in the university magazine FORUM
• 2004–2011: Several awards within the team of the University of Mannheim for student marketing, brand management and the fundraising project "Renaissance of the Baroque Castle" of the University of Mannheim.
• 2009: Helene Weber Prize of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
• 1998: Kurt Hahn Memorial Scholarship of the Federal President and DAAD Scholarship for Cambridge
• Alumna: German Academic Scholarship Foundation, DAAD, Kurt Hahn Trust, BASF Study Initiative

Voluntary commitment

• Chair of the Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation (German Association of University Communications)
• Member of the Executive Board of Friends and Patrons of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Member of the Advisory Board of Wissenschaftskommunikation.de
• Member of the Advisory Board of the WissKomm-Kolleg of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation
• Member of the Advisory Board of Metavorhaben "Innovative Frauen im Fokus" (Meta project "Focus on innovative women")
• Member of the jury for the Science Year University Competition
• Member of the Executive Board of the Stiftung Denkzeichen