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.

Karina has an eye on our numbers and makes sure that they add up perfectly. She supports us in our funding programs and fundraising activities. Karina studied „International Business“ at EPSCI in Paris and has been living in Berlin for 30 years. After 15 years in marketing in different companies, she decided that the nonprofit sector is for her and has been using her skills in raising funds and connecting people.