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Supervision record of Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, documenting current doctoral candidates, completed PhD dissertations, and supervised habilitations.

Current PhD Students

This section lists doctoral researchers who are currently enrolled or in the final submission phase of their PhD under the supervision or co-supervision of Prof. Meinel. External doctoral candidates are indicated where applicable.

Hendrik Graupner, M.Sc. (external, Bundesdruckerei, Berlin)
Max Bothe, M.Sc. (thesis submitted)
Sebastian Berth, M.Sc. (thesis submitted)
Zuhra Sofyan, M.Sc.
Theresa Zobel, M.Sc.
Hendrik Steinbeck, M.Sc. (thesis submitted)
Mehryar Majd, M.Sc.
Jona Otholt, M.Sc.
Dr. Max Thomas, Dipl. Chem.
Farzad Motlagh, M.Sc.
Hong Guo, M.Sc.

Former PhD Students (Successfully Defended)

This section documents doctoral candidates who have successfully completed and defended their PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Meinel. The list reflects a broad academic lineage spanning academia, industry, government, and research institutions worldwide.

Total PhD dissertations supervised: 85 (as of January 2026)

Each entry lists the doctoral degree and the graduate’s current professional affiliation, where available.

Dr. rer. nat. Mohamed Elhayany (now with German UDS)
Dr.-Ing. Nianhui Guo (now with GreenBitAI GmbH, Potsdam)
Dr.-Ing. Eric Klieme (now with 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Christiane Hagedorn (now with Dataport AöR, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Mühle (now with BMWSB, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Daniel Köhler (now with SR Labs, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Ziyun Li (now with KTH, Stockholm)
Dr. rer. nat. Joseph Bethge (now with GreenBitAI GmbH, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. pol. Catrina John (now with Dataport AöR, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Ting Hu (now with GreenBitAI GmbH, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Ali Alhosseini (now with MPI for Human Development, Berlin)
Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi (now with Microsoft Research, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Joaquin Santuber (now with JKU Linz)
PhD Hanady Traifeh (now with German UDS, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Nikolai J. Podlesny (now with McKinsey & Company, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Grüner (now with Atruvia AG, Frankfurt am Main)
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Bartz (now with DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen)
Dr. rer. nat. Muhammad Ihsan Haikal Sukmana (now with Mitigant GmbH, Aachen)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Raad BinTareaf (now with XU University, Potsdam)
PhD Mana Taheri (now freelance Design Thinking Coach)
Dr. rer. nat. Mohamed Esam Eldin Elsaid (now with Intel Corporation, Munich)
Dr. rer. nat. Goncalo Mordido (now with MILA, Quebec AI Institute, Canada)
Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Rohloff (now with Evermood GmbH, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Salim Chujfi (now with Sabienzia Technologies, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Sianipar (now with Del Institute of Technology, Indonesia)
Matthias Wenzel, M.Sc. (thesis submitted, deceased)
Dr. rer. nat. Jan Renz (now with BMBF, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Nuhad Shaabani (now with NC-Systems, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Staubitz (now with German UDS, Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Mina Rezaei (now with LMU Munich)
Dr. rer. nat. Aragats Amirkhanyan (now with Yara International, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Meinig (now with Bundeswehr, Cologne)
Dr. rer. nat. Anja Perlich (now with KBV, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Konrad-Felix Krentz (now with Siemens, Erlangen)
Dr.-Ing. David Jaeger (now with Airbus Defence and Space, Munich)
Dr.-Ing. Martin Malchow (now with Volkswagen AG, Berlin)
Dr.-Ing. Marian Gawron (now with DB Systel GmbH, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Andrey Sapegin (now with Deutsche Telekom Technik GmbH, Berlin)
Dr.-Ing. Martin Ussath (now with Materna SE, Dortmund)
Dr. rer. nat. Xiaoyin Che (now with Siemens Corporate Technology, Beijing)
Dr. rer. nat. Kinga Schumacher (now with Accenture, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Cheng Wang (now with Amazon, Berlin / Seattle)
Dr. rer. pol. Holger Rhinow (now with HPI Academy, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Amir Azodi (now with DSGV, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Eyad Saleh (now with Applicata, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Lutz Gericke (now with SAP SE, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Maxim Schnjakin (now with Bundesdruckerei, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Raja Gumienny (now with SAP SE, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Ibrahim Takouna (now with Delivery Hero, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Franka Grünewald (now with UP IFI, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Nadine Steinmetz (now with TU Ilmenau)
Dr. rer. nat. Hosnieh Rafiee (now with Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg)
Dr. rer. nat. Haojin Yang (now with HPI, Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Tilmann Lindberg (now with GISMA Business School, Potsdam)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ahmad AlSa’deh (now with Birzeit University, Palestine)
Dr. rer. nat. Wesam Dawoud (now with Rentlogic, Canada)
Dr. rer. nat. Rehab AlNemr (now with Alfresco, United Kingdom)
Dr. rer. nat. Ivonne Scherfenberg (now with Bundesdruckerei, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Roschke (now with Snap Inc., USA)
Dr. rer. nat. Björn Schünemann (now with DCAITI, Berlin)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Justus Broß (now with XU University, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Menzel (now with Senacor Technologies)
Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Quasthoff (now with Google, London)
Dr. rer. nat. Feng Cheng (now with HPI, Potsdam)
Dr. rer. nat. Long Wang (now with HERE Technologies, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Wolter (now with REMERGE, Berlin)
Dr. rer. nat. Michael Noll (now with Confluent, Switzerland)
Dr. rer. nat. Stephan Repp (now with Berufsbildendes Gymnasium, Trier)
Dr. rer. nat. Wei Zhou (now with Deron Consulting GmbH, Stuttgart)
Dr. rer. nat. Serge Linckels (now with Ministry of Education, Luxembourg)
Dr. rer. nat. Chunyan Jiang (now with Swiss Life, Munich)
Dr. rer. nat. Ji Hu (now with SAP SE, Karlsruhe)
Dr. rer. nat. Wanjun Huang (now with Ericsson, Frankfurt am Main)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Mohammad Ghasemzadeh (now with University of Yazd, Iran)
Dr. rer. nat. Frank Losemann (now with Actisis AG, Trier)
Dr. rer. nat. Uwe Roth (now with CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Heuer (now with Actisis AG, Trier)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Harald Sack (now with KIT-FIZ Karlsruhe)
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Stangier (now with Fujitsu Laboratories, USA)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ernst-Georg Haffner (now with Hochschule Trier)
Dr. rer. nat. Jordan Gergov (now with Cadence, San Jose, USA)
Dr. rer. nat. Sergej Khludov
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thorsten Theobald (now with University of Frankfurt)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Damm (now with University of Göttingen)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Mathias Krause (now with University of Mannheim)

Supervised Habilitations

This section lists postdoctoral habilitation procedures supervised by Prof. Meinel, reflecting advanced academic mentorship and faculty-level qualification.

Total habilitations supervised: 4

Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Haojin Yang (now with German UDS)
PD Dr. rer. nat. habil. Stasis Jukna (now with University of Frankfurt am Main)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Damm (now with University of Göttingen)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin Mundhenk