I have gathered extensive experience as mentor beyond my activities as a PhD or Habilitation supervisor.
ERC Mentor
Most importantly, I have acted as one of two ERC mentors of the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2021. I give strategic advice about how to set up the application, how to position oneself within the university and about how to prepare the interview. I also conduct mock interviews.
In that capacity, I mentored
Prof Stephan Scheel, sociology
Prof Lucas Vicenzo David, computer science
who were then awared Starting Grants.
I also mentored four other UDE researchers from history, English literature & social psychology who submitted grant proposals, and one of whom was called to the intervew.
In addition, I supported colleagues from sociology and political science from outside the UDE:
2 in sociology (both successfull in the Starting or Consolidator scheme), among whom
Prof Lisa Suckert
3 in political science (two successfull in the Consolidator scheme)
Academic productivity
I regularly teach events around topics of academic productivity, academic writing and project management.