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Ruben C. Arslan ( : @_r_c_a;  : rubenarslan)
"With my open source questionnaire software and an associated R-package, I would like to help more people carry out reproducible studies from design to evaluation. I also want to do my own research in a reproducible and open manner, which includes, among other things, incorporating the knowledge I have gained into Wikipedia articles and building interactive websites for my papers."
Ruben C. Arslan holds a PhD in Biological Personality Psychology from the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. There, he focuses on the evolutionary and genetic causes of individual differences in personality and intelligence and investigates romantic preferences and relationship dynamics. He engages in open and transparent science in order to make psychological research more substantial and replicable. To encourage this, he publishes scientific open source software and participates in international and local initiatives to promote Open Science.
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Mirjam Braßler
"Knowledge creates sustainable development! I am firmly convinced that we need more open educational resources, which is why I’m creating a handbook for teachers who want to produce interdisciplinary open educational resources with students on the topic of sustainability."
Mirjam Braßler is a psychologist, economist and educationalist and is currently doing her doctorate at the University of Hamburg on the subject of "interdisciplinary teaching, learning and working." In the “Open Knowledge” fellowship program, she is putting together a handbook for teachers who want to establish their own Open Educational Resources (OERs) together with students. She also examines the extent to which students who create OERs are able to develop their specialist, methodological, communication, cooperation, and interpersonal skills.
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Marion Goller (: @MarionGoller)
"In my opinion, the importance of the idea of Open Knowledge can hardly be overestimated. Open concepts that not only provide open access, but also enable transformative re-use, not only have great potential in science, but can also contribute to a more effective, efficient, and fairer way of dealing with knowledge."
Marion Goller is a lawyer. She studied law in Mainz and Leicester and completed her legal clerkship in Rhineland-Palatinate and London. She is currently doing her doctorate in intellectual property law at the University of Münster. In her dissertation, she explores the mechanisms of the privatization of knowledge and the counter-movements towards creating a knowledge commons. She analyses how the tightening of copyright and patent law, as well as the introduction of new intellectual property rights, hinders creativity and innovation instead of promoting it, and to extent to which concepts for open licensing can counteract this development.
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Dr. Dr. Hanjo Hamann (: @HanjoHamann)
"Open science needs open data that people can use, but are also able to use. I'm making official data available digitally that everyone can already access so that everyone can also use it."
Hanjo Hamann works at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn) on legal linguistics, empirical legal research, and behavioral economics, among other areas. His project includes the first-time digitalization and scientific processing of official data on staffing and the internal task allocation of German federal courts (so-called business distribution plans) since the Second World War. These data are to be made publicly available online and are above all intended to facilitate historical, sociological, and political science research into German judicial history. In June 2017, the project was awarded the prize “Ausgezeichnete Orte im Land der Ideen.”
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Dr. Adelheid Heftberger
"As a film historian and former film archivist, I recognize that the accessibility of data and cross-sectoral cooperation in this area could be much better. I would therefore like to contribute to increasing the awareness of Open Science and to making it more popular in all its forms in the film community."
Adelheid Heftberger is a research assistant at the ZeM (Brandenburg Center for Media Studies) in Potsdam. Today, scientific articles still mainly consist of pure text, in which sometimes images are used; only rarely are videos embedded in the presentation of texts on the web. The goal of the project is therefore to develop a vision for future electronic publications based on the Open Access Journal Apparatus. Such enhanced publications are to be enriched with freely available data and media, while research results are transferred into Open Knowledge collections.
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Benjamin Paffhausen
"By way of example, I would like to show how sharing one's own work can increase its quality and reach. In addition, I want to illustrate how people can learn new skills with surprising speed outside of their own professional horizon and thus generate new experiments by building on the work of others."
Benjamin Paffhausen is a PhD student in neurobiology at the FU Berlin and is interested in collaborations and the further processing of rich data. It examines the brain activity of free-running, naturally restrained honeybees in the hive. In this project, it is planned to train bees to a color and reward with the help of an artificial flower. The activity of individual nerve cells in such a trained bee is measured. What happens if the flower lights up but does not provide a reward or if the flower lights up in a new colour? What does expectation look like neuronal?
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Lena Reibelt
"Through the use of open and collaborative methods, I would like to realize the joint formulation and evaluation of goals and solutions. This combines knowledge from theory and practice and lays the groundwork for more openness."
Lena Reibelt's doctoral thesis at the University of Hildesheim deals with the inhibitory and supportive aspects of environmental education in Madagascar. Despite its international recognition as a key element for sustainable development, it is not part of the Madagascan curriculum. To bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, the Fellows Program aims to identify options for action that can increase the exchange between non-governmental organizations regarding environmental education. The aim is to support the expansion and professionalization of environmental education in Madagascar.
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Nicolas Schmelling (: @DerSchmelling; : schmelling)
"In my project, I will deal with the evolution of circadian clocks. The code and my data will be stored under an open license on GitHub and will be freely accessible. In addition, I will keep an open lab book to record progress, problems, and ideas."
Nicolas Schmelling holds a PhD in Synthetic Microbiology from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he deals with the diversity and functionality of the circadian clock in cyanobacteria. Within the Fellows Program, he will focus on the evolution of a timepiece. For this purpose, he will use computer simulations in which he allows digital organisms to evolve. These develop strategies to force out their competitors, facilitating a better understanding the basic development processes of a timepiece.
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Melanie Tietje
"In my project, I would like to test the possibilities of community feedback in data analysis and publication. In my field of research, these concepts from Open Science are relatively new, so my project should become a case study for other scientists."
Melanie Tietje is a biologist with a master's degree in Organismic Biology and Evolution from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is interested in paleobiology and the possibilities of applying it to current issues. Since 2014, she has been pursuing her doctorate at the Museum of Natural History as part of the herpetology working group. In her dissertation, she deals with the risk of extinction of amphibians and the various characteristics that influence them. To this end, she combines data from fossils and recent species. Her project in the Fellows Program models the extinction risks of recent amphibians based on information from the fossil record of open-access databases.
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Klara-Aylin Wenten
"The Fellows Program is intended to make research content and the methodological approach of the PhD project more transparent and visible to the public. This will be achieved in the field of social sciences by publishing field notes and research material. In addition, a contribution can be made to the opening of the (social) sciences, as the research project not only uses Open Science methods itself, but also critically reflects on them in the context of the research project."
Klara-Aylin Wenten is a doctoral student at the Friedrich Schiedel Chair of Sociology of Science and the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich. She focuses on forms of citizen participation in innovation and production processes. Her doctoral thesis investigates technology-oriented movements such as the "Maker Movement," which will be used to investigate how concepts of openness, movement, or protest relate to current socio-technological practices. The Fellows Program will examine assembly manuals and online tutorials to gain insight into the prerequisites and forms of generating knowledge and innovation.
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