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GAIN Advisor

In Profile - Michael Prokle

Michael Prokle is a Data Scientist at Philips Research North America working on health care related projects. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research which focused on supply chain optimization in manufacturing & aerospace.

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Sept 21st, 2017

European Research Day

The European Research Day (ERD) in Washington, D.C. is an event where European researchers outside of Europe meet, discuss and exchange concepts about their research projects, professional and personal experience in their respective diasporas and overall career path.

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Save the Date!

Career Day San Francisco

DAAD's Information Center in San Francisco, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and partners in the Bay Area will showcase excellent opportunities for German speakers in Germany as well as in the U.S.

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In Profile

Edgar-John Vogt - GAIN Advisor

Edgar-John Vogt is a German cell biologist and postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. As a GAIN advisor, he will be offering a mentoring and coaching workshop at the 2017 Annual GAIN Conference in San Francisco.

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DAAD Young Ambassadors 2017/18

A warm welcome for our new cohort of DAAD Young Ambassadors! During the upcoming academic year 2017/18, these undergraduate students from all across the US and Canada have volunteered to promote study in Germany at their home universities. 

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Eva Roddeck - DAAD IT Intern

Eva Roddeck is the current IT intern at the DAAD New York office. She is responsible for system and network administration and supports the staff in all technology matters.

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Alexander Geppert - GAIN Advisor

Alexander Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at NYU New York and NYU Shanghai. A DAAD Research Grant enabled him to move from Germany to Italy to pursue his PhD in Florence. He recently joined the GAIN Advisory Board to help DAAD promote Germany as a destination for academics and researchers worldwide.

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Hanni Geist - DAAD Staff Member

Hanni Geist is the DAAD representative in San Francisco responsible for marketing activities in the Western region of the US. For the past 8 years, she has worked with students, faculty and administrators with the FU-BEST study abroad program in Berlin, as a German instructor at Arizona State University, and now as the DAAD representative in San Francisco.

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David Rice - Study Scholarship Alumn

David Rice is a writer and animator based in New York, who spent a year studying in Berlin with the support of a DAAD Study Scholarship grant. His interests cluster around horror, noir, SF, and the grotesque. He recently published his first novel, A Room in Dodge City and just finished a second, called Angel House while also working on a feature film.

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Owen Mundy - DAAD Research Stay Award Winner

Owen Mundy is a professor of Digital Studies, currently working on his research in Berlin with the support of a DAAD Research Stay grant. His work investigates public space, information privacy, and big data. One of his many notable projects involved the mapping of one million images tagged with #cat using the locations users unknowingly uploaded in their metadata.

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