Newly appointed professors 2019

Each year, about 30 appointment procedures are completed successfully at the University. Here, you can find all newly appointed professors at a glance.

Appointments 2019

Martin Ammon
Jutta Bleidorn
Christina Brandt

Professorship: History and Philosophy of Natural Sciences with the emphasis on Life Sciences

Previous employer: University of Bochum (Germany)

Holger Cartarius
Holger Cartarius
Holger Cartarius
Image: Friedrich Moritz Eberhardt/FSU Jena

Professorship: Physics and its Didactics

Previous employer: University of Stuttgart (Germany)

Christine Czinglar
Veronika Engert
V. Engert
V. Engert
Image: Max Niemann Photography

Professorship: Social Neuroscience

Previous employer: Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany)

Diana Forker

Professorship: Caucasian Studies with focus on linguistics

Previous employer: University of Bamberg (Germany)

Philipp Franken

Professorship: Molecular Phytopathology

Previous employer: Humboldt University Berlin (Germany)

Petra Frehe-Halliwell
Dietmar Gallistl
Dietmar Gallistl
Dietmar Gallistl
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

Professorship: Numerical Analysis

Previous employer: University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Nikolaus Gaßler
Nikolaus Gaßler
Nikolaus Gaßler
Image: UKJ/Szabó

Professorship: Pathology

Previous employer: Braunschweig Hospital (Germany)

Johannes Grave
Johannes Grave
Johannes Grave
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

Professorship: Modern Art History with focus on European Romanticism

Previous employer: Bielefeld University (Germany)

Michael Habeck
Michael Habecl
Michael Habecl
Image: Michael Szabó/UKJ

Professorship: Microscopic Image Analysis

Previous employer: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Germany)

Christian Jogler
Christian Jogler
Christian Jogler
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

Professorship: Microbial Interactions

Previous employer: Radboud University (The Netherlands)

Anika Klafki
Anika Klafki
Anika Klafki
Image: privat/Klafki

Professorship: Öffentliches Recht, insb. transnationales Verwaltungsrecht

Previous employer: Bucerius Law School (Germany)

Robert Kretschmer
Christian Kreuder-Sonnen
Kai Lawonn
Kai Lawonn
Kai Lawonn
Image: privat/Lawonn

Professorship: Visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis

Previous employer: University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)

Viktor Leis
Florian Meier
Florian Meier
Florian Meier
Image: Michael Szabó/UKJ

Professorship: Functional Proteome Analysis

Previous employer: Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Germany) 

Sander Münster
Sander Münster
Sander Münster
Image: privat/Michael Kretzschmar, 2019

Professorship: Digital Humanities with a focus on Image and Object Data

Previous employer: Technical University Dresden (Germany)

Hyhen Nguyen

Professorship: Financial Economics

Previous employer: Nottingham University (United Kingdom)

Manuela Nowotny
Prof. Dr. Manuela Nowotny
Prof. Dr. Manuela Nowotny
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

Professorship: Animal physiology

Previous employer: Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)

Kai Papenfort
Kai Papenfort
Kai Papenfort
Image: privat/Papenfort

Professorship: General Micobiology

Previous employer: LMU Munich (Germany)

Simon Runkel
Thomas Scharinger
Thomas Scharinger
Thomas Scharinger
Image: privat/Scharinger

Professorship: Romance linguistics with a focus on French and Italian

Previous employer: LMU Munich (Germany)

Jan Schirawski
Giancarlo Soavi
Cord Spreckelsen
Cord Spreckelsen
Cord Spreckelsen
Image: Heiko Hellmann/UKJ

Professorship: Medical Computer Science

Previous employer: RWTH Aachen (Germany)

Martin Walter
Oksana Yakimova
Sina Zarrieß
Sina Zarrieß
Sina Zarrieß
Image: privat/Zarrieß

Professorship: Digital Humanities with a focus on Machine Learning and Language Technology

Previous employer: Bielefeldt University (Germany)

Julie Zedler
Julie Zedler
Julie Zedler
Image: privat/Zedler

Professorship: Synthetic biology of photosynthetic organisms

Previous employer: University of Copenhagen (Denmark)