RespectScience – Für neue Anreize in der Wissenschaft

About Us

The RespectScience Team…

… is an interdisciplinary team of young and prospective scientists who are committed to improving the scientific landscape in Germany

… works with science communicators, researchers, and journalists to bring attention to issues such as publication pressures and poor working conditions.

…has the long-term goal to initiate a change of the scientific system and a relief of the people working in science through education.

Kira Herff

holds a BSc in Physics and Philosophy from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her thesis was written under Viola Prieseman at MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

Michael Gritzbach

works as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and holds a BSc. in Management, Philosophy & Economics from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, a Masters in Economics from Beijing University, and an MSc. in Analytics & Management from London Business School. He has further studied at Harvard and Columbia University, MIT, and HSE St. Petersburg.

Lena Schwenker

holds a Bachelor in Nutritional Science and currently pursues a Master in Molecular BioSciences at the University of Heidelberg. Currently, she works on her thesis at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. She is a passionate science communicator on Instagram.

Selina Stiegler

is a documentation assistant (Film & Video) trained at the Academy for Communication Mannheim. She has worked at several theaters in Germany and Austria and is currently pursuing a Bachelor in Technology Journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.

Jonathan Wiskandt

holds a Master in Climate Physics from CAU Kiel and GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research and currently writes his Ph.D. at the University of Stockholm about Ice-Ocean-Interaction.

Helene Radloff

studies medicine at the University of Lüback and writes her M.D. in an oncological subject area. Next to her studies, she is actively involved in integration and environmental projects and manages the "SciencePub" in Lübeck.

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim

Dr. Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim, who holds a doctorate in chemistry and is a science journalist, has accompanied RespectScience from the very start. Through her active time in research, she knows […]

Oliver Ruf

Prof. Dr. Oliver Ruf is a specialst on the field of media cultural sciences and holds the research professorship “Aesthetics of Communication” at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. In 2021, […]

Ranga Yogeshwar

Ranga Yogeshwar is an experimental physicist and science journalist by training. He developed the science program Quarks for Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and is known for his analyses of sociopolitical issues. […]

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For an all encompassing reformation of the WissZeitVG

Nearly one year after the evaluation of the amendment of the Wissenschaftszeivertraggesetzes (WissZeitVG) and after a number of stakeholder meetings, the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forchung (BMBF) published its first […]

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11th GEW Science Conference

On September 21, 2022, RespectScience e.V. presented its first and preliminary results of its survey on “Working Conditions in the Science System” at the 11th Science Conference of the German […]