Mentoring: Female High Potentials
FEMALE HIGH POTENTIALS: THIRD COHORT 2025-2027
Mentoring Program for Female Scientists at the University of Augsburg
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Since November 2021, the University of Augsburg has offered a new mentoring program for early-career female scientists with the goal of increasing the proportion of women in science. The program consists of several components: informational events, workshops, peer groups, and individual coaching sessions. The core of the formal mentoring is a structured, long-term learning and development process, in which an experienced person (mentor) shares their knowledge, experience, and advice with a less experienced person (mentee).
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What makes this program special is that mentees can choose their mentors themselves. The mentors should ideally be nationally or internationally recognized and well-connected. For early-stage female scientists who are just starting their careers, it may also be possible to have a mentor from a different field, to provide guidance on women-specific issues in the path to a scientific career. Overall, the program aims in particular to sustainably strengthen scientific visibility, decision-making competence, and career orientation.
Goals & Content
- Strategic career planning & decision-making
- Building networks within and beyond the university
- Visibility in science & professional presence
- Managing challenges such as competition & performance pressure
- Personal development & strengthening of transferable skills
Mentoring-Programm in Kurzvideos
What exactly is behind the mentoring concept? Why is mentoring considered a success factor in an academic career? How does the search for a mentor work? You can learn all this and much more in the conversation between Prof. Dr. med. Ditsch, former program initiator and coordinator, and Prof. Dr. rer. Pol., a mentee from the first cohort.
How does the University of Augsburg’s mentoring program support mentees in preparing comprehensively for their unique professional and personal challenges? Former mentee Christine Stahl shares her experiences in a conversation with Prof. Dr. med. Ditsch.
How can women with professional experience benefit from the mentoring program when making a career switch into academia? In a conversation with Prof. Ditsch, former mentee Petra Anders shares how the program helped her gain confidence in her new path and encouraged her to step beyond her comfort zone.
Contact persons
The program is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Sarah Friedrich-Welz, Deputy Officer for Gender Equality in Science and the Arts, together with the Office for Equal Opportunities (Anna Ohnmei?, Natalie Bertmann & Sarah Pritschet).
The team supports participants throughout the program: they help select mentees, organize workshops and events, provide guidance on both content and logistics, and continuously evaluate the program to ensure it meets everyone’s needs.
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Tel.: +49 821 598-4339
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Prof. Dr. Sarah Friedrich-Welz?
Deputy University Officer for Gender Equality in Science and the Arts
Program Coordinator
Chairholder: Mathematical Statistics and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Anna Ohnmei?, M. A.
Gender Equality Advisor
& Head of the Office for Equal Opportunities
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Natalie Bertmann, B. A.
Project Assistant
Office for Equal Opportunities
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Tel.: 0821/598-5145
Email: buero@chancengleichheit.uni-augsburg.de
Sarah Pritschet, B. A.
Student Assistant
Office for Equal Opportunities
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Email: femalementoring@chancengleichheit.uni-augsburg.de
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FEMALE HIGH POTENTIALS: 3RD COHORT 2025-2027
The new cohort officially launched with a kick-off event on October 2, 2025.
Our Current Mentees
Vivienne Ehlert
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
Chair of High-Performance Scientific Computing
Research Project Title: Structure-Preserving Methods for Adaptive Parallel Simulations of Heterogeneous Systems
Hanna H?u?ler
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
Chair of Analysis and Geometry
Research Project Title: J?-like Invariants for Pairs of Periodic Orbits in Hamiltonian Dynamics
Alessandra Hollmann
Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Digital Medicine
Research Project Title: Development and Validation of an LLM-Based, Multi-Layer On-Premises Pseudonymization Pipeline for German Clinical Free Texts with a Document-Related Re-Identification Risk Index
Nicole Jaufmann
Faculty of Business and Economics
Chair of Management Accounting (Controlling)
Research Project Title: Microfoundations of AI Adoption in Controlling
Sara Joosten
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering
Chair of Discrete Mathematics, Optimization and Operations Research
Research Project Title: Utilizing Integer Programming to Solve Facility Location Problems
Sarah Junginger
Faculty of Medicine
Chair of Medical Education and Educational Research
Research Project Title: Emotional Exhaustion, Demands, and Resources of Medical Students: A Longitudinal Investigation
Sandra Littwin
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Chair of Primary Education and Primary Education Didactics
Research Project Title: Enhancing Pre-Service Teachers’ Counseling Competence through Simulated Parent–Teacher Conferences and AI-Based Feedback
Dr. Isabelle Mossong
Faculty of Philology and History
Chair of Ancient History
Research Project Title: The Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula as an Integrative Contact Zone (2nd Century BCE – 5th Century CE)
Hanna-Sophie Rue?
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Chair of Public Communication
Research Project Title: Communication Strategies of Right-Wing Extremism: The Construction of Defensive Publics in Digital Spaces
Katharina Sasse
Faculty of Medicine
Chair of Regional Climate Change and Health
Research Project Title: ALERT-ITS: Development of a Prediction and Monitoring Model for the Regional Forecast of Intensive Care and Ventilation Needs Caused by Environmental Factors
Line Saur
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Chair of Comparative Educational Research
Research Project Title: The Alternative for Germany Party’s Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care
Dr. Hanna Schmück
Faculty of Applied Computer Science
Chair of Computational Linguistics
Research Project Title: Computational Discourse Analysis and Processing across Languages and Time
Jana Ziel
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Chair of Political Education and Social Science Didactics
Research Project Title: Epistemic Concepts – A Metaphor-Analytical Approach to Political Educators’ Epistemic Conceptions of Social Science Truth: A Contribution to Digital Social Science Education
