Mentoring Morphosis

Finding successful paths in academia.

The associated scientific advisory committee of SciMento and ProProfessur

The aim of SciMento-hessenweit and ProProfessur is to significantly increase the percentage of women in high positions within academia as professors and holding other managerial jobs. To secure the success of the projects, a scientific advisory committee supports the work of both projects in the capacity of a strategic and conceptual advisory committee.


Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner

  • Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel (until 2011)
  • Project leader of medieval history

Barbara Drossel

Prof. Dr. Barbara Drossel

  • Theoretical physicist at the Institute of Solid State Physics at the University of Darmstadt
  • Project leader in the area of statistical physics and complex systems
  • Member of the SciMento project steering group

Prof. Dr. Anita Engels

  • Sociologist at the University of Hamburg
  • Principal Investigator and member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Excellence Cluster ‘Integrated Climate Systems Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)’
  • Managing director of the Centre for Globalization and Governance

Dr. Astrid Franzke

  • Project leader of ProProfessur
  • She has a wealth of experience in evaluation and research in mentoring

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Jahn

  • Director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen
  • Mentor with SciMento

Ekaterina Kostina

Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Kostina

  • Mathematician at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at the Phillips University of Marburg
  • Project ‘Numerical optimization’
  • Member of the SciMento project steering group

Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz

  • Vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Frankfurt (2009 to 2011)
  • Sociologist with a focus on gender studies at the University of Frankfurt

Anna Starzinski-Powitz

Prof. Dr. Anna Starzinki-Powitz

  • Dean of the Faculty of Bioscience
  • Leader of ‘Human genetics for biologists’ at the Faculty of Bioscience at the Goethe University of Frankfurt
  • Initiator and programme leader of SciMento-hessenweit 

Prof. Dr. Ritva Tikkanen

  • Biochemist and molecular biologist in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Gießen
  • Principal Investigator of the Excellence Cluster ‘Makromolekulare Komplexe’ in Frankfurt