Guests
Once again this year, the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival welcomes top-class experts from science, media, politics and society. You can look forward to exciting topics and intensive discussions. We are looking forward to seeing you!
Rubén Abruña
Documentary Filmmaker
Dimitra Andritsou
Assistant Director
Prof. Peter Arens
Head of the Department – TV-show „History and Science“, ZDF
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) / Scientific Director of the SILBERSALZ Festival
Theda Bartolomaeus
Graduate food chemist
Jon Chase
science communicator, author and science rapper
Steve Crabtree
Executive Producer
Olivier David
Journalist and Author
Prof. Dr. Colin Devey
Dynamics of the Ocean Floor, Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems
Julia Chen
Student, Molecular Biotechnology, University of Heidelberg
Clarissa Corrêa da Silva
Moderator, editor and author
Mohamed Soliman Daoud
Science Communication & Development Officer I The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Anna D'Errico
Science writer, Olfactory artist
Dr. Shreya Dhame
Postdoctoral Scientist
Nabil Deabji
PhD candidate
Eva Eiling
Research Associate
Dr. Andreas Elsäßer
Experimental Biophysics and Space Sciences
Moritz Engelhardt
PhD candidate, NeuroSense Lab
Julian Etienne
Cultural Manager and Film Programmer
Natalia Eulberg
Visual artist, self-taught caterpillar researcher
Dominik Eulberg
DJ | Producer | Biologist
Maike Gebker
Research assistant
Johannes Geiger
Commissioning Editor, Deputy Head of Department, International Co-Productions
Fredrik Gertten
Director
Katharina Gruber
Science Journalist
Fritz Habekuß
Author | Science Editor
Hadija Haruna-Oelker
Political scientist, journalist, author and moderator
Alice Hasters
Journalist, book author and podcaster
Mathias Herbarth
Chef
Dr. Helena Herr
Scientist, Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science, University of Hamburg & guest researcher
Prof. Dr. Thomas Herzfeld
Director, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Kerstin Hoppenhaus
Science Journalist & Filmmaker
Dr. Patrick Hörl
Founder I General Manager, AUTENTIC
Dr. Thomas Hörren
Entomologist and coleopterist
Ann-Christin Hornberger
Commissioning Editor, Science and Knowledge, ZDF / ARTE
Franziska Hornig
Secretary General of the Leopoldina,
Inner Child a.k.a. Sara Niksic
biologist, musician and bioacoustician
Astrid Kahmke
Head of the European Creators' Lab
Dr. Tim Kalvelage
Science journalist and photographer
Patrick Klügel
Public Engagement Manager, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Dr. Oswald Knoth
Mathematicians & Environmental Sciences
Dr. Ariane Krause
Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) & NetSan e.V.
Ellen Kuo
Head of XR Market
Walter Köhler
CEO, Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbH
Prof. Dr. Laura Kreidberg
Head, APEx Department
Kai Kupferschmidt
Freelance Science Writer
Prof. Dr. Annette Leßmöllmann
Linguist
Sergei Loznitsa
Director, Screenwriter & Producer
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Melina Ludolph
Economist
Birgit Lutz
Author and expedition leader
Magda Marečková
Postdoctoral Researcher
Tom Matzke
Journalist and Documentary filmmaker
Dr. Matthias Maurer
Astronaut & Scientist
Prof. Dr. Johanna Mierendorff
Institute for Social Pedagogy
Alexandros Merkouris
Filmmaker
Prof. Dr. Bertolt Meyer
Scientist, Host & DJ
Jael Michaelis & Pauline Stein
Schülerinnen, 12. Klasse
Prof. Dr. Steffen Müller
Head of the Department of Structural Change and Productivity
Dr. Jochen Müller
Neurobiologist and Science Journalist
Prof. Dr. Lena Noack
Department of Earth Sciences
Dr. Viktor Oubaid
Aerospace Psychologist, Aviaition and Space Psychologist
Jack Pop
Science-Entertainer & Moderator
Dr. Demetra Rakosy
Postdoc Spatial Interaction Ecology
Dr. Emilia Roig
Author, Political Scientist
Prof. Surabhi Ranganathan
Professor of International Law
Dimitri Ravin
Urban Planner
Marcel Roth
Moderator
Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Rößler
Research Associate, Research Area Transformative Capacities
Prof. Dr. Robert Paxton
Chair of General Zoology
Max Permantier
Funding Executive
Dr. Elīna Reitere
Film critic, film scientist and moderator
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Sackmann
Sociology
Louis Savy
Founder I Festival Director, SCI-FI-LONDON
Tobias Schmid
Moderator, phD Student
Volker Schmid
Space Engineer & Officer in the Executive Board of the Chair
Prof. Dr. Christian Schwanenberger
Physicist, Senior Scientist
Anasuya Sengupta
Co-Director & Co-Founder
Dr. Marwa Shumo
Associate Researcher, Ecology and Natural Resources Management
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Lucia Sommerer
Assistant Professor for Criminal Law and Criminology
Sebastian Sorg
Producer, project developer
Martin Stimming
Producer & Musician
Thorge Thomsen
Reporter, Presenter, Author and Editor
Valentin Thurn
Filmmaker & Producer
Prof. Dr. Lena Tonzer
Economist
Dr. Riccardo Giovanni Urso
Researcher
Kathrin Karola Viergutz
Project Manager
Katharina Warda
Sociologist & literary scholar
Isa Willinger
Director
Alexander von Harling
Head of Specialist Factual
Dr. Susanne Winter
Program Director "Forest"
Lars Wohlfahrt
Moderator
Bibiane Zeller-Presenhuber
Science journalist
Dr. Hans Zillmann
"Medicine-Ethics-Law" (IWZ MER)