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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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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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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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Research Ambassador - Dana Weber

Meet our DAAD network and the people who make it what it is. Dana Weber is an Assistant Professor of German at Florida State University. Her research interests center on performance, theater, and festival in contemporary German culture. As a DAAD Research Ambassador, she helps advise students and fellow researchers on going abroad to Germany.

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Yasemin Yildiz - DAAD Prize Winner

Meet our DAAD network and the people who make it what it is. Dr. Yasemin Yildiz is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at UCLA. Through her research, she frequently engages with contemporary issues, and publishes on Islam, gender, migration, and minority discourses.

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