Anne has been executive director of GSO since 2016. She studied Social and Business Communication in Berlin and Chinese language and culture in Nanjing. After completing her PhD in Organizational Sociology at the University of St. Gallen, she spent a year working on research at UC Berkeley. It was there that she was asked the decisive career question.

Anne is active on the Advisory Boards of the Planck Academy, the science blog Elephant in the Lab, the Science Management Network as well as Junge Menschen und Stiftungen.

Marieke has been with GSO since 2018. She manages and organizes our funding programs and advises researchers on the most diverse career questions.

She took her PhD in Physical Chemistry at TU Berlin. After various stints in industry and publicly commissioned research, she moved on to science management in 2016.

As our project and community manager, Jessica deals with all the questions and matters relating to our fellows and alumni. She gained experience of working with alumni at HU Berlin and now manages our alumni platform AlumNode.

Jessica studied Modern Languages, Cultures and Business Studies in Giessen and Milwaukee (Wisconsin, US) and took her Master’s in European Studies.

Christian supports GSO from October 2021 to March 2022 as part of the On Purpose Leadership Programme. He studied economics in Mannheim and Frankfurt and subsequently worked in Project Management and Consulting.

Especially living two years abroad raised the question about the purpose of his own work and led Christian into the world of social entrepreneurship.

At GSO, Christian is responsible for the development and improvement of digital career services.

Christian currently lives in Berlin and recently completed a coaching training.