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!

Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger
Professor of Sociology of Education and Labor Market Research

Dr. Katharina Beyerl
Psychologist, Geographer
Jana Bingemer
Coordinator of Education

Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) / Scientific Director of the SILBERSALZ Festival

Prof. Marco Bohnhoff
Head of Section Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling 'at the GFZ Potsdam German Research Center for Geoscience

Dr. Levin Brinkmann
Research Scientist

Ben Buschfeld
graphic and interface design, KulturerbeNetz.Berlin

Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt
Principal Researcher, Research Fellow, and Deputy Site Director of the DFKI

Dr. Simon Ciranka
Research Scientist

Marc Damie
researcher

Geraldine de Bastion
co-founded Konnektiv, moderator and public speaker

Dr. Claire de March
CNRS Assistant professor

Marta Dopieralski
Project Manager World Congress for Science & Factual Producers

Cedric Engels
Producer | Host | Consultant

Prof. Jonathan Everts
Professor of Human Geography at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Moritz Simon Geist
music producer, researcher
Johannes Gemkow
Research assistant

Jürgen Geuter
Consultant, author
Dr. Tita Gonzalez Avilés
Psychologist, Scientist

Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel
Sustainability and Transformation Scientist & Author

Rocco Helmchen
Visual Artist

Emilia Henkel
Doctoral candidate, research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary History/ Contemporary History

Raphaël Hitier
Director, Author

Marc Horat
Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Planetarium Director

Dr. Nizar Ibrahim
Palaeontologist, National Geographic Explorer

Dr. med. Daniel Illy
Author, lecturer, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy

Jessy James LaFleur
spoken word artist, rapper, presenter, activist

Dr. Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, Head of the POPSICULE

Hatice Kahraman
Editorial director of CORRECTIV's Salon5 youth editorial team

Max Kestner
Director

Patrick Klügel
Public Engagement Manager, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Dr. Franziska Knoll
Archaeologist and Alliance Coordinator GOLEHM
René Koch
Publisher

Dr. Aysuda Kölemen
Political scientist and coordinator of the TSI (Threatened Scholars Integrative Initiative)

Johannes Kraas
Musician, producer & artist

Andrea Kreidenweiss
Priv.-Doz.

Dr. Judith Kretzschmar
Research associate

Dr. Dana Kühnel
Toxicologist

Kai Kupferschmidt
Freelance Science Writer

Nhi Le
Moderator

Ulla Lohmann
Photojournalist, Documentary Filmmaker

Prof. Jürgen Margraf
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Simon Mohn
Speaker, society developer, co-founder of Reinventing Society

Lena Müller
Documentary filmmaker, producer, head of acquisitions

Claudia Neumeier
Freelance journalist

Tobias Nölle
Director
Wilfried N'Sondé
Author, musician

Katrin Ohlendorf
Freelance radio and TV journalist

Jamie Perera
Composer, sound artist and producer

Dr. Roland Philippi
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Claudia Reiser
MDR AKTUELL-Author

Christopher Resch
Journalist

Lillian Rosa
Author, director, producer

Dr. Axel Salheiser
Sociologist and Scientific Director of the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ) Jena

Stefanie Samtleben
Group Manager Integral Factory Planning Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF

Anna Sator
Research assistant

Louis Savy
Founder I Festival Director, SCI-FI-LONDON

Philipp Schrögel
Affiliated Researcher

Dr. Barbara Steiner
Director Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring
Researcher

Niobe Thompson
Writer, Director, Executive Producer

Juliane Victor
Political Scientist | Institute of Political Science

Dr. Kira Vinke
Head of the Center for Climate and Foreign Policy
Prof. Daniel Weidner
Professor of General and Comparative Literature

Dr. Leon Windscheid
Psychologist, science communicator, bestselling author, podcaster

Alexandra Wolf
Project management, sustainability manager

Fabian Korbinian Wolf
Director

Dr. Nicole Zabel-Wasmuth
Media and environmental lawyer

Dr. Manès Weisskircher
Head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA (Right-wing extremism versus climate protection?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden

Dr. Theresa Züger
head of the AI & Society Lab at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society