Jury 2026

Esther Bishop
Exchange & Networking Officer, StIL

Julius Othmer
Head of Project House TU Brunswick

Derek Trei
Research assistant at TU Brunswick

Dr.-Ing Thomas Köhler
Head of Education Science Research at Dress & Sommer

Raffael Ruppert
Team Lead Modeled Data @ Statista

Arno Wilhelm-Weidner
Scientific advisor at VDI/VDE-IT

Diana Christov
Head of Finance, People and Operations at Agora Digital Transformation

Ralph Sonntag
Principal / Passion for university development at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences

Greet Stichel
Research assistant, doctoral candidate and equal opportunities officer

Janina Becker
Educational Director at The Basement

Franziska Sattler-Morrison
Programme Manager at Foresight Canada

Jens Tobor
Project Manager CHE and HFD

Gerd Kortemeyer
Member of the Executive Board, AI Centre and physicist at ETH Zurich

Benedikt Brünner
University assistant at Graz University of Technology

Daniela Thyssens
Research assistant at the Information Systems and Machine Learning Lab

Anna Wolf
Emerging Tech Lab at Leuphana

Martin Mähler
Head University Relations Germany

Tabea Hein
Project Lead Digital Transformation & AI

Andreas Sexauer
Never prompt alone

Hans Pongratz
Technical Director at the Foundation for University Admissions, TU Dortmund

Anna-Luisa Stöber
Dean of the Faculty of Business Technology Design

Ben Lenk-Ostendorf
Head of the TUM AI Guide Academy

Olaf Herden
Professor of Computer Science at the DHBW

Henning Koch
Team leader for the Future Skills and AI Community at Stifterverband

Vera Gehrs

Moritz Kreinsen
Research assistant, Didactics of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg

Dr.-Ing. Ursula Frank
Head of R&D Cooperation at Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG

Nuri Köse
Topic Lead Strategic Competency Management at ZF Group

Janis Jaspers
Student at the University of Münster

Lukas Heierle
Head of Services, Study Administration / Workshop Leader and Coach

Stefanie Masella
Media educator at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein

Birgitt Erdwien
Vice President for Research & University Didactics at Euro-FH

Nadine Wegmeyer
Research assistant MC4LSA Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

Lars Gerber
Research assistant at the University of Vechta

Alexander Schulz
Managing Director, Centre for IT and Media Management at the University of Potsdam

Sabrina Zeaiter
Digitalisation Officer at Goethe University Frankfurt

Ronny Röwert
Branch Manager, Digital Learning Campus (DLC) Schleswig-Holstein

Christina Zitzmann
Vice President for Education at TH Nuremberg

Sarah Edelsbrunner
Instructional designer in the Teaching and Learning Technologies Department at Graz University of Technology

Ulrike Mascher
Teaching and learning with immersive media Goethe University | studiumdigitale

Ingo Kleiber
Senior Expert for Digital Education and Educational Technology at the University of Cologne

Frank Paul Schulte
Professor of Education and University Didactics, Chairman of the Board of the German Society for Higher Education Didactics (dghd)

Anne Hertel
Network Manager LeNie at the University of Greifswald

Annabell Bils
Management Centre for Learning and Innovation, Distance learning university in Hagen

Alexander Gerber
Domination: Science communication & AI in studies and teaching at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences

Daniela Schmitz
Assistant Professor for Innovative and Digital Teaching and Learning Methods in Multiprofessional Healthcare at Witten/Herdecke University

Thomas Korner
Head of Innovation Lab, Education Department at Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Karen Rätz
Study coordinator and lecturer for interdisciplinary skills development at TU Darmstadt

Markus Deimann
Managing Director and Open Education Activist at ORCA.nrw

Franz Vergöhl
Coordinator for Platform-Driven Learning at HCU (SDG & AI)

Lisa Niendorf
Educational scientist and SPIEGEL bestselling author of ‘UNIversal gescheitert?’, HU Berlin

Jördis Vassiliou
Support student teaching and peer learning formats, FU Berlin

Julia Becker
Science Education, Ruhr University Bochum

Jule-Louisa Gronau
Student, research assistant & tutor at the European University of Flensburg & Goethe University Frankfurt

Marcus Lamprecht
Centre for Higher Education Quality Development at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Stephanie Reiner
Assistant professor for innovative teaching methods at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences

Katharina Westphal
Advocate for student participation in university teaching at Ruhr University Bochum

Sarah Becker
Student at Ruhr University Bochum

Simone Gobien
Team leader for funding at StIL

Martin Ebner
Head of the Teaching and Learning Technologies Department at Graz University of Technology

Hanja Hansen
Shaping the future together with joy, Zurich University of Teacher Education

Florian Lamert
University of Duisburg-Essen

Lorenz Mrohs
Project coordinator, University of Bamberg

Madita Olvermann
Innovation Manager at the Project House (TU of Brunswick)

Jennifer Koch
Team leader of the Digital Teaching department, Jena University Hospital

Thomas Blotevogel
Dean of Studies and lecturer at THWS

Thomas Hoffmeister
Jury 25 member, University of Bremen

Indira Ceylan
Organisational Development and Digitalisation Officer, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

Nicole Geier
Research assistant in education management at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Yasmin Djabarian
Team Leader Innovation & Internationalisation at Stifterverband

Christina Schwalbe
Head of the Office for Digital Teaching at the University of Hamburg

Nicole Hagen
Editorial management at Jöran & Konsorten

Felix Greven
Project Manager Knowledge Transfer, StIL

Carla Runge
Consultant for educational innovation at ISoG BW

Lambert Heller
Championing Open Science & Digital Collective Memory at TIB

Bettina Pfaendner
Innovative Educator, passionate about the Future of Learning

Stefan Lindow
University digitiser at the University of Potsdam

Jana Panke
Team management and project coordination at Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU) at TU Hamburg

Thomas Sporer
Co-working, co-learning & co-living for all at edr Agency for Educational Innovation and Knowledge Transfer