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. Francesca Biagini

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Dis/Similarities”

Mathematics

Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “Medical Data Processing”

Epidemiology

Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkert

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “New Cosmology”

Astrophysics

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. Sebastian Gäb

LMU Munich

Spokesperson of the CAS Research Focus “New Cosmology”

Philosophy of Religion

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

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

Junior Researchers in Residence

Dr. Andrei Lavrenov

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Winter Semester 2025/26

Mathematics

Dr. Alexa Lenz

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Winter Semester 2025/26

Political Science

Dr. Magdalena Obermaier

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Winter Semester 2025/26

Communication Science and Media Research

Dr. Stefanie Schneider

LMU Munich

Junior Researcher in Residence Winter Semester 2025/26

Art History

Current Authors of the CAS Blog

Prof. Dr. Vincent Balnat

University of Strasbourg

Visiting Fellow

Linguistics

Prof. Marya Besharov, Ph.D.

University of Oxford

Blog Author, Visiting Fellow, CAS Research Focus “Dis/Similarities”

Management Studies

Marie-Luise Heske

SKKD Ingolstadt

Blog Author

Concrete Art and Design

Prof. Sharon Shakargy, Ph.D.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Visiting Fellow

Law

Dr. Daniel Sharp

LMU Munich

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

Philosophy

Dr. Franziska Tanneberger

University of Greifswald

Blog Author

Peatland Science