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. 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

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

Dr. Shreya Dhame
Postdoctoral Scientist

Nabil Deabji
PhD candidate

Dr. Andreas Elsäßer
Experimental Biophysics and Space Sciences

Moritz Engelhardt
PhD candidate, NeuroSense Lab

Natalia Eulberg
Visual artist, self-taught caterpillar researcher

Dominik Eulberg
DJ | Producer | Biologist

Fredrik Gertten
Director

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. Tim Kalvelage
Science journalist and photographer

Dr. Oswald Knoth
Mathematicians & Environmental Sciences

Dr. Ariane Krause
Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) & NetSan e.V.

Kai Kupferschmidt
Freelance Science Writer

Sergei Loznitsa
Director, Screenwriter & Producer

Birgit Lutz
Author and expedition leader

Magda Marečková
Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Matthias Maurer
Astronaut & Scientist

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
Dr. Elīna Reitere
Film critic, film scientist and moderator

Volker Schmid
Space Engineer & Board Division of the Chairmen

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

Martin Stimming
Producer & Musician

Valentin Thurn
Filmmaker & Producer

Dr. Riccardo Giovanni Urso
Researcher

Kathrin Karola Viergutz
Project Manager
Katharina Warda
Sociologist & literary scholar

Isa Willinger
Director

Dr. Susanne Winter
Program Director "Forest"

Lars Wohlfahrt
Moderator