Ask a Scientist

For our last discussion in the summer semester, we were able to win Dr Tanja Korzer for our discussion series. The architect and commercial property economist worked from 1998-2001 as a research assistant at HTWK Leipzig and from 2003 to 2019 at Leipzig University (from 2014 as Managing Academic Assistant at the Institute for Urban Development and Construction (ISB)). As a scientist and architect, she has already gained a lot of professional experience within and outside the academic landscape. Since 2019, she has expanded her range of activities as an employee at |u|m|s| STADTSTRATEGIEN and Head of the Specialist Centre for Integrated Community Development Saxony (since 2024). Tanja Korzer is a board member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning / Central Germany regional group. We are delighted to talk to her about her career decisions, professional experiences and current day-to-day work.

Time: Tuesday, 24.06.2024 from 12:30-13:30

Location: TR B 1.47

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For the kick-off event of the Ask a Scientist discussion series, we will be talking with Professor Nataša Živić. Since June 2022, she has been a professor of information and coding theory as well as real-time image processing at the Faculty of Digital Transformation at HTWK Leipzig. In her research, she explores methods in both coding and information theory as well as cryptography to make communication systems more efficient, robust against interference, and secure against attacks. During the one-hour Lunch Talk, she will share with us her career journey and her current work as a professor at HTWK Leipzig.

For our next event, we will meet Professor Katharina Gelbrich. The law graduate and PhD holder has been a professor of law (business private law) at HTWK Leipzig since April 2023. Her research focuses on insolvency law and business private law topics, particularly consumer protection law and changes in private law due to sustainability efforts and digitalization. In addition to her role as a professor at HTWK Leipzig, she works at the law firm Flöther & Wissing. She will share with us her career journey and her start as a professor at HTWK Leipzig in our conversation.

During our last meeting in the 2024/25 winter semester, we will have a conversation with Professor Gabriele Hooffacker. She is a journalist and lecturer specializing in digital journalism. Since 2013, she has been working as a professor in the field of "Media-Appropriate Content Preparation" at the HTWK Leipzig. Her current research focuses on AI in journalism, interactive and participatory formats, as well as digital teaching and learning media. Additionally, since 2019, Professor Hooffacker has held the position of Deputy Director at the Institute for Digital Teaching and Learning (IDLL) and has been a member of the University Council at HTWK Leipzig since 2020. She will share with us her career journey and her passion project, "The Long Night of Computer Games," which attracts around 2,000 visitors to HTWK Leipzig annually and has been organized by her since 2017.