Student Representatives

All GAUSS programs have their own student representatives who are annually electing the representative and his/her deputy off all GAUSS doctoral students. This GAUSS student representative is a member of the GAUSS board attending the board meetings.

GAUSS Representative
Shehzadi Irum Fatima (since 01 April 2026)
Faculty of Biology and Psychology
UMG - Department of Neurology
PhD student in the program Biology
Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Göttingen
s.fatima[at]stud.uni-goettingen.de.de

GAUSS Deputy Representative
Greg Weiler (since 01 April 2026)
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematical Institute
PhD student in the program Mathematical Sciences
Bürgerstr. 40, 37073 Göttingen, N22
greg.weiler[at]mathematik.uni-goettingen.de

Program representatives

Program	Student representative
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematics (SMS)	Greg Weiler, Pang Shiang Tay
Computer Science (PCS)	Zhengze Li
Data Science (PDS)	Dominik Becker
Environmental Informatics (PEI)	-

Faculty of Physics

Physics	Fee Jasmin Salome Kappert
IMPRS Solar Systems Science	David Ivens, Noemi Padar, Lisa Marie Beckmann (PhDNet)

Faculty of Chemistry

Chemistry	-
Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis (CaSuS)	-
RTG 2455 Benchmark experiments for numerical quantum chemistry (BENCh)	Lukas Hasecke, Finn Kraft

Faculty of Geoscience and Geography

Geoscience	Mukhtiar Ghani
Geography	Mukhtiar Ghani

Faculty of Biology and Psychology

Biology	Shehzadi Irum Fatima (since Sep 2025)
Biological Diversity and Ecology (BioDiv)	-
Behavior and Cognition (BeCog)	Kim Schreiber

Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

GGNB representatives	Evelyn Sutiono, Leijla Šoše
Biomolecules: Structure- Function-Dynamics	Paula Meth
Cardiovascular Science	Yannic Döring
Cellular and Molecular Physiology of the Brain	Nesrine Melliti
Emerging Infectious Diseases	Katharina Decker
Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution	Smriti Rathee
Genome Science	Anna-Lena Sulewski, Deliana Alexa Infante Rojas
Microbiology and Biochemistry	Lucas Hollstein
Molecular Biology	Shatnu Kumar, Morten Flieger
Molecular Biology of Cells	Noreen Strubel, Mats Koschel
Molecular Medicine	Anna Blandau, Alyssa Baert
Neurosciences	Andrea Campos Perez, Marina Saade
Physics of Biological and Complex Systems	Stefan Köstler, Sara Drechsler
Plant Responses to Eliminate Critical Threats (PRoTECT)	Durga Prasad Naik Bhukya, Hawi Deressa Kenea
Sensory and Motor Neuroscience	Aleyna Diniz, Julius Norbert Bahr
Systems Neuroscience	Johanna Luise Mayer
Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience	Valentin Neuhaus, Marcel Christian Raabe

Former GAUSS Representatives

Greg Weiler (04/2025 - 04/2026)
Deputy Aasish Kumar Sharma (04/2025 - 04/2026)
Greg Weiler (04/2024 - 04/2025)
Deputy n/a
Leo Suchan (04/2023 - 04/2024)
Deputy Jan-Wilke Henke (04/2023 - 04/2024)
Hiwa Abdullah (04/2022 - 04/2023)
Deputy Jan-Wilke Henke (04/2022 - 04/2023)
Karen Stroh (04/2021 - 04/2022)
Deputy Hanna Knirsch (04/2021 - 10/2021)
Deputy Syed Bilal Hasan (10/2021 - 04/2022)
Christian Roth (04/2020 - 04/2021)
Deputy Hanna Knirsch (04/2020 - 04/2021)