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Speaker at the FUTURE FORUM 2024 in Washington, D.C.

Interview with Ona Ambrozaite

Ona Ambrozaite is the inaugural Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Science Diplomacy Hub and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry at the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. As a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, her work focuses on developing novel semiconducting materials with unique optoelectronic properties for applications in quantum information science and technology. Ambrozaite is also a speaker at the upcoming DWIH NY conference, FUTURE FORUM 2024, in Washington, D.C., where she will share her expertise on Science Diplomacy Hubs. Read the interview to learn how Ona Ambrozaite became interested in Science Diplomacy, why the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany serves as an example of successful Science Diplomacy, and her advice for young researchers interested in the field.

New Book Release by Columbia Global Reports

Four Questions for Cameron Abadi

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Cameron Abadi, author of the book “Climate Radicals” which will be published in the fall by Columbia Global Reports.  In the book, Abadi profiles the fascinating activists of Letzte Generation, known for gluing themselves to street intersections and throwing food on works of art; Ende Gelände, which demands the immediate phaseout of coal by occupying mines; and the German leaders of the global coalition Fridays for Future, which organizes school strikes (on Fridays) and many other large-scale demonstrations. Read more about Cameron’s background, the idea behind the book and its implication for future policymaking in Germany and the United States in this interview.

News from the University of Freiburg

United Nations Forum on Forests: “Reforestation is not a simple story of win-win”

Interview with Daniela Kleinschmit, Professor of Forest and Environmental Policy and incoming President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations IUFRO.

New Associated Supporter of the DWIH New York

Four Questions for Martin Setzkorn

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Martin Setzkorn, Head of the Center of Digital Innovation and Head of Center of Entrepreneurship at the University of Rostock. The University of Rostock has been one of two new associated supporters of the DWIH New York since May 2024.

Events in March 2024

Five Questions for Natascha von Hirschhausen

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Natascha von Hirschhausen and thereby coming back to the 2022 DWIH Focus Topic “Sustainable Innovations”. Natascha is a Berlin-based zero-waste fashion designer and founder.

News from the Hasso Plattner Institute

Service to the Scientific Community

Prof. Felix Naumann, head of the “Information Systems” department at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), is the new editor-in-chief of the “Journal of Data and Information Quality” (JDIQ). The HPI talked to him about his work as editor-in-chief and the focus of the journal.

#DWIHzeitgeist February 2024

Three Questions for Ekkehard Strauss

The DWIH New York had the pleasure of interviewing Prof. Ekkehard Strauss, speaker at our online event #DWIHzeitgeist – Science Diplomacy in Practice on February 1, 2024, and a professor at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), part of UAS7 – German Universities of Applied Sciences, one of the DWIH main supporters with an office in New York.