Central Division Research Support Services

Research Support Services at HWR Berlin offers all university members advice on and support in acquiring funding from national and European third-party funding sources. We also provide information on the university’s internal research funding and support services.

Dr. Michael Ebert

T +49 30 30877-1567

Campus Schöneberg, Building A, Room A 2.06
Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • Head of the Central Unit
  • EU research funding: information, advice and support for EU funding applications, in particular Horizon 2020, Interreg and Erasmus+ Key Action 2
  • Research-based knowledge and technology transfer
  • Doctoral advice and organization of the HWR doctoral college
  • Collaboration in the development and implementation of the concept for the creation of an academic mid-level faculty at HWR Berlin
  • UAS7 AG Research

Dr. Bettina Biedermann

T +49 30 30877-1421

Campus Schöneberg, Building A, Room A 2.31
Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • National research funding: information, advice and support with funding applications, especially at the BMBF: Forschung an HAW  
  • DFG
  • Foundations
  • Strategy development for the university's research funding
  • Editing the homepage for research
  • Reporting

Silvia Gigante

T +49 30 30877-2684

Campus Lichtenberg, Building 1, Room 1.0067
Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60, 10315 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • National research funding: information, advice and support with funding applications, especially BMBF specialist programs
  • Institute for Applied Research e.V.

Dr. Katharina Maak-Castro

T +49 30-30877-1179

Campus Schöneberg, Building A, Room A 2.06
Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • Advice and support for doctoral candidates and prospective doctoral candidates
  • Doctoral College of the HWR Berlin
  • Cooperative Doctoral Center Berlin
  • Organization of the HWR International Doctoral Summer School
  • Institute for Applied Research (IFAF Berlin): Research Coordinator at the Competence Center for Business and Administration at the HWR Berlin

Meike Schneider

T +49 30 30877-1368

Campus Schöneberg, Building A, Room A 2.31
Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • Maintenance of the research database
  • i.V. Office of the Commission for Research and Young Academics (FNK)
  • Office of the Research Commissions of Departments 1 to 5
  • Collaboration in the collection of key research figures
  • Applications for the support fund for doctoral candidates and WiMis
  • University prizes
  • Contact person for the HWR Berlin Research publication series
  • Research Forum

Jens Westerfeld

T +49 30 30877-1007

Campus Schöneberg, Building A, Room A 2.32
Badensche Straße 52, 10825 Berlin

Areas of responsibility:

  • National research funding: information, advice and support with funding applications, especially BMBF specialist programs
  • Contract research
  • Strategy development for university research funding
  • Research database
  • Office of the Academic Senate's Commission for Research and Young Academics
  • Key figures for the area of performance-based university funding
  • Institut für angewandte Forschung e.V.