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Members of the Research Unit
Abraham Alpizar Ulate, B. A.

phone: +49 (0)30 259 219 315
Hertie-Schule
Fakulty Assistant- European and Global Governance
Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Bals

Vice President for Higher Education Development and Strategy
Phone: +49 (0)541 969-6305
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-6300
Room: 26/104
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Fabienne-Agnes Baumann M.Sc./M.A.

Phone: +49 (0)541 969 6394
fabienne.baumann@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 26/E02
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Vocational and economic pedagogy
Prof. Dr. Mark Bechtel

Phone: +49 541/969-4986
mark.bechtel@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/310
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: How students and teachers deal with learning tasks in French and Spanish classes, Processes of intercultural learning in language learning, Use of instructional videos in university teacher education to promote reflective competence
Malte Paolo Benjamins, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4972
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4495
malte.paolo.benjamins@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 19/E07
Shirin Betzler, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 541 969-4819
Fax: +49 541 969-4470
shirin.betzler@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 15/108
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: Occupational and organisational psychology, research in sustainability and consumption
Prof. Dr. theol. Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke

Vice President for Studies and Teaching
Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4288
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4376
Room: 17/E03
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Catholic theology - practical theology - pastoral theology and religious education
Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Bosbach

Phone:+49 (0)541 969-4281
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4049
klaus.bosbach@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 02/210
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Research focus: Physical geography / vegetation
Orlando Bruno Nunez
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: Music Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Psychology
Miriam Burfeind, M. Sc.

Phone: +49 541 969 6307
miriam.burfeind@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 26/201
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studie
Area of expertise: Vocational and Economic Pedagogy
Research focus: Digitalisation / Gamification in higher education teaching, Students' sense of belonging to the university
Mauricio Chaves Fernández, M.A.

Phone: +49 541/969-4714
Room: 41/305
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research Focus: Central American and Caribbean literature, future science, literary theories
Esteban Durán Delgado, M.A.

estebanduran@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: E15/303
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: Developmental psychology and culture
Prof. Dr. theol. Margit Eckholt

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4286
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4376
Room: 17/102
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Catholic theology – systematic theology: dogmatism and fundamental theology
Cooperation with Latin America: Director of “Stipendienwerk Lateinamerika-Deutschland e.V.” (ICALA – Intercambio cultural latinoamericano-alemán)
icala@icala.org
Dr. rer. nat. Florian Fiebelkorn, Dipl.-Biol.

Speaker of the research center Costa Rica
Phone: +49 541 969-3511
florian.fiebelkorn@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 35/140
School 5: Biologie/Chemie
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Frommberger

Phone.: +49 (0)541 969 6390
dietmar.frommberger@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 26/E04
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Vocational and economic pedagogy
Renato Garita Figueiredo, M. Sc.
Phone.: +49 541 969 3391
Room: 50/311
School 8: Human Sciences
Institut of Cognitive Science
Research focus: Document analysis, natural language processing and topic modeling
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Robert Gillenkirch

Phone: +49 (0)541 969 2730
robert.gillenkirch@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 29/E06
School 9: Business Administration and Economics
Research focus: Management accounting
Anastasia, Gonchavora, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 541 969 4983
anastasia.goncharova@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 26/ E05
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Curriculum research, Vocational Education and Training in international comparison, Professionalization of vocational training personnel
Dr. Philipp Gorris

Phone: +49 541-969-6427
Fax: +49 541-969-4333
philipp.gorris@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 02/310
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Science
Institute of Environmental Systems Research
Research focus: Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Governance, Governance Networks, Integrated Coastal and Marine Resource Management, Protected Areas & Spatial Planning, Social Science Methods, Sustainable Development
Dr. Johannes Halbe

Phone: +49 541 969-2297
Fax: +49 541 969-2599
Raum: 66/E23
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Joachim Härtling

Phone: +49 (0)541 4273
Fax: +49 (0)541 4333
joachim.haertling@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 02/204
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Research focus: Palaeolimnology and Geoarchaeology
Prof. Dr. Joost Holthuis

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-7140
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-2498
holthuis@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 67/134
School 5: Biology/Chemistry
Dr. Sebastian Huhn

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4914
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4380
sebastian.huhn@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 03/224
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Dr. Thomas Jarmer

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-3914
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-3939
Room: 50/416b
School 6: Mathematics/Computer Science
Katharina Lager, M.Ed.

katharina.lager@uni-osnabrueck.de
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Didactics of the Spanish language
Dr. Albert Manke

Dr. Albert Manke
University of Osnabrück
IMIS / Recent History and Historical Migration Research
Seminarstr. 19 a/b
Room 03/E25c
Department 1: Cultural and Social Sciences
Tel.: +49 (0) 541 969-4901
Fax: +49 (0) 541 969-4380
albert.manke@uni‐osnabrueck.de
Focus: Latin American History; Global History
Prof. Dr. Trudel Meisenburg

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4340
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4256
trudel.meisenburg@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/309
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Romance linguistics
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Menzel-Riedl

President Osnabrück University
Phone: +49 541 969 4100
praesidentin@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 13/110
Andrea Mochalski, M.A.

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-6015
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4807
andrea.mochalski@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 52/313
Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Karsten Müller

Speaker of the research center Costa Rica
Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4701
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4700
karsten.mueller@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 15/231
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: work and organisational psychology
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamura

Phone: +49 (0)541 4117
Fax: +49 (0)541 4807
yoshiro.nakamura@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 52/317
Dr. phil. Gunnar Nilsson

Phone.: +49 (0)541 969-4258
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4256
gunnar.nilsson@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/E06
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Didactics of the Spanish language
Dr. Alexandra Nitz

Costa Rica Center - administration
Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4553
Room 01/307
Dr. iur. José Carlos de Medeiros Nóbrega, LL.M.

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4464
carlos.nobrega@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 44/104
School 10: legal sciences/ European Legal Studies Institute Osnabrück
Research focus: Comparative law
Elisa Orta Galindo

Phone: +49 541 969-4060
Fax: +49 541 969-4256
elisa.orta.galindo@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/210
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Romance Linguistics
Dr. Andrea Pešková

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4372
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4256
andrea.peskova@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/324
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Romance Linguistics
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gordon Pipa

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-2277
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-2246
Room: 31/404
School 8: Human Sciences
Institute of Cognitive Science
Research focus: Neuroinformatics
Felix Przesdzink, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 (0) 541-969-3449
Room: 35/135b
School 5: Biology/ Chemistry
Research focus: Stakeholder-oriented environmental protection, Virtual Reality Nature Experiences / virtual excursions
Adrián Rojas Campos, M.Sc.

Phone: +49 541 969 7090
rrojascampos@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 50/214
School 8: Human Sciences
Institute of Cognitive Sciences
Research focus: Applied neuroinformatics
Dr. Irina Rommel
Phone: 0541 969-6375
Room: 26/E03
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: International-comparative vocational training research, international vocational training cooperation, international vocational training policy and qualification of vocational training personnel
Jana Rülke, M. A.

Phone: +49 541 969 4280
Fax: +49 541-969-4333
Room: 02/308b
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Research focus: Rural development, research on globalisation, governance, networks of global production, networks of agri-food, human-environment relations
Dr. rer. nat. Juan Carlos Saborío Morales
Tel.: +49 (0)541 386050 0
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Cooperation with the School of Mathematics/ Computer Science and Physics at Osnabrück University
Research Focus: Plan-based robot control
Tracy Sánchez Pacheco, M.Sc.

tracysanchez@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 50/213
School 8: Institute of Cognitive Science
Daniel Romero Schellhorn

Phone: +49 (0)1772669996
School 8: Human Sciences
Institute of Cognitive Science
Research focus: artificial intelligence
Lea Schlotterbeck, B.Sc.

lschlotterbe@uni-osnabrueck.de
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: Intercultural psychology
Prof. Dr. phil. Susanne Schlünder

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4443
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-4059
susanne.schluender@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/312
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Romance literature
Lena Schmeiduch

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-7686
e-mail: lena.schmeiduch@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 75/241
School 8: Human Sciences
Research Focus: Occupational and organisational psychology, research in sustainability and community
Prof. Dr. Peter Schneck

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-4412
peter.schneck@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/123
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: American literature and culture
Dr. Stephanie Schröder

Phone: +49 541 969-6164
stephanie.schroeder@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 03/25b
Unit for Decentralised Internationalisation Strategies
Vivian Schütt, B.Sc.

Research focus: Intercultural Business Psychology
Hon.-Prof. Dr. rer. soc. oec. Hans-Wolf Sievert

Phone: +49 (0)541 601 204
Fax: +49 (0)541 601 256
School 9: Business Administration and Economics
Research focus: International and intercultural management
Prof. Dr. phil. Achim Stephan

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-3359
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-3381
achim.stephan@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 31/415
School 8: Human Sciences
Research focus: Philosophy of mind and cognition
Annika Thoma

Phone: 0541/969-6165
annika.thoma@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 41/321
School 7: Language and Literary Studies
Research focus: Didactics of Romance Languages - Teaching Language, Intercultural Learning, Didactics of Literature, Research Methodologies in Conversation Analysis, Subjective Teacher Attitudes
Prof. Dr. Björn Waske

Phone: +49 541 969-7216
Fax: +49 541 969-2799
bjoern.waske@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 50/413
School 6: Mathematics/Computer Science
Research focus: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Analysis; Land-use change
Dr. phil. Katharina Wehking

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-6212
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-6300
Room: 26/105
School 3: Educational and Cultural Studies
Research focus: Vocational and economic pedagogy
Prof. Dr. Frank Westermann

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-3508
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-2757
frank.westermann@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 29/218
School 9: Business Administration and Economics
Research focus: Economics / international economic policy
Dennis Wilke

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-2402
dennis.wilke@uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 66/E21
School 1: Cultural Studies and Social Sciences
Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo

Phone: +49 (0)541 969-2840
Fax: +49 (0)541 969-2845
sabine.zachgo@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
Room: 35/E58
School 5: Biology/Chemistry
Research focus: Botany and plant developmental genetics