Researchers at CAS

The many impulses for projects at CAS come from LMU scholars. They represent the wide spectrum of academic disciplines at LMU.

Spokespersons of the CAS Research Groups

Prof. Dr. Julia Burkhardt

LMU Munich

Medieval history

Prof. Dr. Nikita Geldhauser

LMU Munich

Mathematics

Spokespersons of the CAS Research Focuses

Prof. Dr. Claudia Bausewein

LMU Hospital

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Meaning of Life“

Palliative Medicine

Prof. Dr. Roland Beckmann

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Nucleic Acid Stress”, Regular Member

Structural Biology

Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Medical Data Processing”

Epidemiology

Prof. Dr. Alexander Choukér

LMU Hospital

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Mission Space”

Anaesthesiology

Dr. Michaela Coenen

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Planetary Health”

Public Health

Dr. Andreas Döpp

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Bayesian Reasoning”, CAS Young Center

Physics

Prof. Dr. Tobias Dreischulte

LMU Klinikum

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Medical Data Processing”

Medicine

Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier
Prof. Dr. Florian Englmaier

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Bureaucracy”

Organizational Economics

Prof. Dr. Martin Fischer

University Hospital, LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Narrations of Medicine”

Medical Education

Prof. Rachel Green, Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Nucleic Acid Stress”, CAS Visiting Fellow

Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Heiner Igel

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Mission Space”, CAS Member, Blog Author

Geophysics/Seismology

Prof. Dr. Axel Imhof

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Speciation”

Chromatin Proteomics

Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Group “Tools for Transnational Neuropsychiatric Research“

Neuropsychiatry

Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Planetary Health”

Applied Physical Geography

Prof. Nitin Phadnis, Ph.D.

University of Utah

Visiting Fellow and spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Speciation”

Genomics and Cell Biology

Prof. Dr. Katja Radon

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Planetary Health”

Medizin; Arbeits- und Umweltepidemiologie

Prof. Dr. Christof Rapp

LMU Munich

Academic Director of CAS, Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Meaning of Life”

Ancient Philosophy

Prof. Dr. Constanze Rossmann

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Planetary Health”

Communication Science and Media Research

Dr. Mike Rüb

Charité/LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Narrations of Medicine”

Psychiatry

Prof. Dr. Carlos Spoerhase

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Scales”

German Literature

Dr. Sina Steglich

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Summer Semester 2025, Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Scales”

Modern History

Dr. Tom Sterkenburg

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Bayesian Reasoning”, CAS Young Center

Philosophy of Science

Prof. Dr. Berenika Szymanski-Düll

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Narrations of Medicine”, CAS Young Center

Theatre Studies

Junior Researchers in Residence

Valeria Burdea, Ph.D.

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Summer Semester 2026

Economics

Dr. Giuseppe Casalicchio

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Summer Semester 2026

Statistics

Dr. Maurice Fürstenberg

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Summer Semester 2026

German Linguistics

Dr. Brendan Röder

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Summer Semester 2026

Early Modern History

Current Authors of the CAS Blog

Prof. Dr. Vincent Balnat

University of Strasbourg

Visiting Fellow

Linguistics

Prof. Kristen Dunfield, Ph.D.

Concordia University Montréal

Visiting Fellow, CAS Research Group “The Ontogeny of Normativity”

Psychology

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gertrude Lübbe-Wolff

Bielefeld University

Blog Author

Law

Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, Ph.D.

Leiden University

Blog Author

Evolution and Biodiversity

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider

University of Leipzig

Blog Author

Cultural Studies

Dr. Daniel Sharp

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Winter Semester 2024/25, Blog-Author

Philosophy

Cornelia Vossen

Blog Author

Curator