University of Bremen Celebrates as Seven Scientists Elected to DFG Review Boards

A total of 54,068 scientists took part in the election and distributed their up to six votes electronically among 1,631 candidates. One result of the election is the proportion of women that has once again increased: the percentage of female faculty members elected is 37.9. In the 2019 election it was 32.1 percent.
In a three-stage process consisting of review, evaluation and decision, the review boards evaluate funding applications to the DFG and thus ensure the technical quality of the review. They compare all the applications they have in order to identify the projects most worthy of funding within the given financial framework. In this way, they ensure that applications are assessed according to uniform standards across the DFG programs.

The elected members of the review boards are assigned to a subject according to the focus of their academic work. Several scientifically interlinked subjects form a specialist panel and thus a meaningful subject-specific comparison area for evaluation. The work of the review boards begins in spring 2024 and lasts four years.  

Simone Kasemann is part of the “Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry” specialist committee for the subject “Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry”. She is dean of Faculty 5 “Geosciences”. The professor heads the “Isotope Geochemistry” department at the department and at the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences.

Gritt Klinkhammer was elected to the specialist committee “Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies” for the subject “Religious Studies”. She is a professor in Faculty 9 “Cultural Studies”, where she heads the “Empiricity and Theory of Religion” work area in the Institute for Religious Studies and Education.

Lutz Mädler was elected to the “Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry” panel for the subject “Mechanical Process Engineering”. In Department 4 “Production Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering” he is a professor in charge of the “Mechanical Process Engineering” department. At the Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies – IWT he is the head of the “Process Engineering” main department.

Philip Manow is Professor of Comparative Political Economy in Department 8 “Social Sciences” and spokesman for the Research Center Inequality and Social Policy (Socium). He is responsible for the subject “Political Science” in the “Social Sciences” specialist committee.

Nicole Megow was elected to the “Computer Science” college for the subject “Theoretical Computer Science”. She is a professor in Department 3 of Mathematics and Computer Science and heads the “Combinatorial Optimization and Logistics” working group there.

Olaf Groh-Samberg is Professor of Sociology at the Research Center Inequality and Social Policy (Socium) in Faculty 8 “Social Sciences”. The expert on structures, conditions and consequences of social inequalities in welfare societies was elected to the “Social Sciences Faculty” for the subject “Empirical Social Research”.

Matthias Zabel will take part in the “Geology and Paleontology” specialist college for the subject “Geology”. The private lecturer is head of the “Sediment Geochemistry” research group at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and a university lecturer in the geoscience courses in Faculty 5 “Geosciences”.