The Apoena Network is made up of volunteers from various fields of knowledge who are at different stages in their research, whether in academia, doing their PhDs or working at German universities, in industry or in strategic areas. Below are the members who currently make up the Apoena Network management group.
Dr. Carolina Victoria Junho
She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Münster. She has a PhD in biotechnosciences and a bachelor’s degree in science and technology from UFABC in São Paulo. She also received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 2022 to 2024.
Dr. Claudia Seldin
She is an architect and urban planner specialising in urban-cultural policies, urban marketing and branding, and resistance movements. She has a master’s and doctorate in Urbanism from PROURB/FAU-UFRJ with sandwich periods at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She has received grants from CNPq, CAPES, Faperj, DAAD, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and IRS Leibniz. She currently works as a research associate at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin, where she teaches on the Master’s courses in Historische Urbanistik and the Urban Management programme. She joined Apoena to facilitate co-operation between Brazil and Germany and exchange experiences about academic life in both countries.
Emília Inone-Kauffmann
She studied chemistry with a master’s degree from UFSCar. She came to Germany in 1997 to work at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Chemische Technologie, where she has worked ever since as a researcher and is currently deputy director of the Energy Systems division. She decided to join the Apoena Network because she believes in a more structured, focussed, transparent and reciprocal Brazil-Germany ST&I cooperation.
Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício
She is a computer engineer and holds a master’s degree in software engineering from USP. Currently, she is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. She ended up in Germany on a German Chancellor Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, researching at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She decided to join Apoena because she believes in the importance and power of communities.
Silvia Nougués Wargaftig
She studied Linguistics at UNICAMP, Journalism at the Cásper Líbero Foundation and World Heritage Studies at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). She is currently Science, Technology and Innovation Advisor at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin. She joined Rede Apoena because she believes in the enormous power of science, communication and connections between people.