Hybrid Talks #40 : Transparenz (DE)

Professor at the Institute for Theory and Practice of Communication

Jürgen Schulz is professor of Strategic Communications Planning for the study programme Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
After completing this same study programme around the turn of the century, Schulz wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at the Humboldt University on risk and crisis communications. As a business consultant he focused on the fields of issues management, project management and corporate identity, before returning to the UdK in 2005.

Professor for Digital Provenance Research

Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp is professor for Digital Provenance Research at the Technische Universität Berlin. Since December 2019 she is an Associate Member of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). She studied art history, theatre studies and classical archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where she received her doctorate in 2012 on the subject of “Art Trade under National Socialism” and was awarded with the Heinrich-Wölfflin Award. Since 2018 she has been chairperson of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.

Professor for Clothing and Textile Design

Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen is professor of Fashion and Textile Design at the College of Architecture, Media and Design of the Berlin University of the Arts. After completing her studies in Fashion Design at Koninklijke Academievoor schone Kunsten in Antwerp, she was responsible from 1994 for various collections for such labels as Gucci, Chanel and Helmut Lang, before joining UdK in 2005, where she was named Managing Director of the Institute of Experimental Fashion and Textile Design.

Founder of Something Fantastic – Smart, touching, simple architecture

Elena Schütz studied architecture at both the ETH Zurich and the Berlin University of the Arts, where she founded the architecture magazine Protocol. In addition to various lectureships in such cities as Paris and Oslo, in 2010 she founded the design collective Something Fantastic together with Julian Schubert and Leonard Streich. Together the three co-authored the book worlds, people, cities and houses about their work.

Professor for Experimental Physics

Stefan Eisebitt is professor of Experimental Physics at the Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics of the Technische Universität Berlin. After studying physics at the University of Cologne he completed his Ph.D. dissertation in Vancouver on the subject of semiconductor nanostructures, before continuing his research in Stanford, at HU Berlin and in Lund. In 2015 Eisebitt was named director of the Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, which is part of the Forschungsverbund Berlin association.