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.

Julia is about to receive her PhD in German Studies and has lived and worked in the USA for several years. She knows about the challenges of researchers returning to Germany from her own experience.

Julia manages our funding programs and supports us by creating new content for our Career Resources.

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.

With her Master’s in Cultural Management and extensive experience in event management and communications in the nonprofit sector, Albina is indispensable for our program events.

She helped build our alumni platform and looks after everything digital.

She is on parental leave until mid-July 2020.