Our mentors

Our international mentors have experience in a range of disciplines and different career pathways. In the following, we introduce them briefly, and present their mentoring expertise.

Dr. Daniel Recktenwald

Current position: Product manager for voice assistants / voice applications
Subject area: Linguistics; Humanities & Social Sciences
Provides help with: Information on starting your career, tips on joining the industry from other fields, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Abdallah Ababneh

Current position: Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yarmouck University (Jordan)
Subject area: Electrical engineering
Provides help with: looking for internships or jobs, cultural and country-specific questions

Dr. Mikaela Petkova-Kessanlis

Current position: Senior Research Assistant at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
Subject area: Modern German Linguistics, Modern German Literature, South Slavic Philology
Provides help with: Applications and interviews, cultural and country-specific questions, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Minh Tuan Nguyen

Current position: Assoc. Professor at the Faculty of Law at Vietnam National University (Hanoi)
Subject area: Law
Provides help with: looking for internships, questions about visas, sharing knowledge and experience

Prof. Dr. Ibrahima Diagne

Current position: Professor of German Language and Literature at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (Senegal)
Subject area: German Language and Literature, Romance Languages and Literature, English Language and Literature
Provides help with: looking for internships and jobs, sharing career-related knowledge and experience

Note

This is only a small selection of our mentors. If you would like to be matched with Saarland University alumni, please register for the Alumni mentoring scheme.