OVERVIEW of Schedule

 

8:30 – 9:00	Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome	Professor Alexander Betts, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Engagement, University of Oxford, and Academic Director Oxford Berlin Research Partnership   Professor Beate Kampmann, Einstein Professor of Global Health, Academic Director Oxford Berlin Research Partnership
9:15 – 10:30:	Panel 1: Innovation, Science and the Environment	Chair: Dr Henry Marx, Berlin State Secretary for Higher Education and Research   Panellists: Professor Matthew Wood, BioEscalator, University of Oxford Professor Sara Khalid, Planetary Health Informatics, University of Oxford Martin Rahmel, innovate! lab gGmbH (Berlin University Alliance) Dr Doris Meder, Berlin Institute of Health
10:30 – 11:00	Keynote Address	The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor Irene Tracey
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:30	Panel 2:   Innovation, AI and the Arts	Chair: Professor David de Roure, Digital Scholarship @ Oxford Initiative, Laboratory for AI Security Research, University of Oxford   Panellists: Professor Florian Conradi, Universität der Künste Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin Professor Kathryn Eccles, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Professor Frank Fischer, Digital Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin Professor Christine Gerrard, TORCH, University of Oxford
12:30 – 13:35	Lunch (provided)
13:40-14:00	The University of Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums	Dr Megan Gooch & Ayla Karamann, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
14:00-15:15	Panel 3:   Innovating for Democracy: Building Resilience in a Changing World	Chair: Professor Petra Schleiter, Centre for Democratic Resilience, University of Oxford Panellists: Professor Lauren Sukin, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Professor Florian Jeßberger, International Criminal Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Tim Wappenhans, Comparative Political Behaviour, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
15:15-16:00	Networking Break
16:00- 17:15	Panel 4:   Innovation Eco-Systems	Chair: Dr Olga Kozlova, Innovation and Engagement, University of Oxford. Panellists: Dr Mairi Gibbs, Oxford University Innovation Professor Søren Salomo Technology and Innovation Management (TIM), Technische Universität Berlin, Professor Markus Ralser, Biochemistry and Systems Biology of Metabolism, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
17:15 – 17:30	Closing Remarks	Professor Michael Bojdys, Director BioBlock, Center for the Science of Materials Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin   Professor Alexander Betts, University of Oxford
17:30 – 18:45	Networking Drinks

 

 

 

Speakers

Professor Alexander Betts

Pro-Vice Chancellor for External Engagement, Sport and Community at the University of Oxford, Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College

Prof. Beate Kampmann

Einstein Professor of Global Health, Academic Director Oxford Berlin Research Partnership (since January 2024), Director of the Institute of International Health at Charité; Scientific Director, Charité Centre for Global Health

Dr Henry Marx

German politician (Social Democrats), State Secretary for Science and Research of the State of Berlin since April 2023

Professor Matthew Wood

Chair at BioEscalator, Professor of Neuroscience and Deputy Head of the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford

Professor Sara Khalid

Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Biomedical Data Science, Planetary Health Informatics, University of Oxford

Martin Rahmel

Managing Director, innovate! lab gGmbH i. G. (Berlin University Alliance); Coordinator, greenCHEM; Managing Director, Chemical Invention Factory (CIF) - John Warner Center for Start-ups in Green Chemistry

Dr Doris Meder

Managing Director, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Co-founder, Core for Life, an Excellence Alliance of Life Science Core Facilities in Europe

Professor Irene Tracey

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience

Professor David de Roure

Academic Director of Digital Scholarship@Oxford and the Laboratory for AI Security Research, University of Oxford. Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre.

Prof. Florian Conradi

Researcher at Universität der Künste, Institute for Product and Process Design. Co-director of the research group Design, Diversity and New Commons at the Berlin University of the Arts / Weizenbaum Institute; Visiting professor for Design Research and Critical Design at Freie Universität Berlin and Einstein Center Digital Future

Professor Kathryn Eccles

Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute

Prof. Frank Fischer

Professor of Digital Humanities with a special focus on Computational Literary Studies at Freie Universität BerlinPrincipal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence 2020: Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in Global Perspective and at Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies 

Professor Christine Gerrard

Professor of English Literature, and Barbara Scott Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall. Director of TORCH, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Dr Megan Gooch

Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities Research Support, University of Oxford

Ayla Karamann

Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Professor Petra Schleiter

Centre for Democratic Resilience, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hilda’s College

Professor Lauren Sukin

John G. Winant Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy, Nuffield College and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

Prof. Florian Jeßberger

Professor of Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Director of the Franz von Liszt Institute for International Criminal Law & Justice. Co-director, Center for Advanced Studies: Reflexive Globalisation and the Law: Colonial Legacies and their Implications for Law in the 21st Century

Vice Academic Director (Social Sciences), Oxford Berlin Research Partnership

Tim Wappenhans

DPhil student at DYNAMICS Research Training Group

Teaching and Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Political Behavior in the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Affiliated researcher at the Humboldt Governance Lab

Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

Associate Professor in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College

Dr Olga Kozlova

Director of Innovation and Engagement, University of Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Society of Arts, chair of the Scientific Excellence and Impact Subcommittee at the James Hatton Institute

Dr Mairi Gibbs

CEO Oxford University Innovation

Prof. Søren Salomo

Professor for Technology and Innovation Management (TIM)

Dean of Research at Technische Universität Berlin

Prof. Markus Ralser

Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Group Leader Biochemistry and Systembiology of Metabolism

Head of the Ralser Lab at Charité and University of Oxford

Prof. Michael Bojdys

Director of the DATIpilot BioBlock innovation community

CTO of MANA.energy

Guest professor in Chemistry at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin