TEDxHSRW

Speakers

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• Fadi Alshalabi

  Dr. Fadi Alshalabi is an educator, researcher, and co-founder of Niuversity, a digital learning platform that has empowered thousands of learners across the Arab world to rebuild their skills and careers through online education and entrepreneurship. After moving to Germany, Fadi discovered that migration is often described as a story of survival - but rarely as a story of creation. His journey inspired him to ask a different question: Why not let newcomers build, not just belong?

• Marlow Guttmann

  Marlow D. Guttmann works in HR and Organizational Development, guiding leaders and young talent through transformation. As a consultant, author, speaker, and mentor, he brings a Generation-Z perspective that bridges generations, and is a sought-after voice on the future of work and AI ethics, featured at conferences and in leading HR and business media. He serves as an honorary judge at Hamburg’s Social Court and co-founded the Rotaract Club Hamburg International - part of the Rotary Network - promoting diversity, cultural exchange, volunteer action, and developing young leaders.

• Matic Jovičević-Klug

  For Dr. Matic Jovičević-Klug, research is more than a profession - it’s a calling shaped by curiosity, imagination, and the desire to make a difference. As a materials engineer in science, he sees engineering as storytelling through matter, transforming atoms, energy and their form into new possibilities. A journey that has taken him from uncovering the invisible beauty of magnetism to leading the research forefront of transforming waste into resources and designing magnets that will power a greener, more sustainable world. But beyond the science, his work is a story of imagination - of seeing possibility where others see limitation, of turning curiosity into creation.

• Patricia Jovičević-Klug

  With a background spanning geochemistry, marine geosciences, sustainability, nanoscience and nanotechnology, Dr. Patricia Jovičević-Klug has always been driven by curiosity - exploring new materials and the stories they tell. From metallic materials to rocks that have journeyed across galaxies, she studies how the smallest elements can help solve our biggest challenges. Her passion lies in developing sustainable solutions for critical raw materials (CRMs) - the hidden ingredients behind clean energy, semiconductors, and advanced technologies. Her work bridges chemistry, physics, cryogenics, and catalysis, advancing innovative ways to extract, recycle, and optimize the materials that power our world. She has contributed to cryogenic processing, sustainable extraction, oxide reduction, and hold two patents in thermochemical catalysis - all aimed at making materials science more circular and sustainable.

• Uzair Munir

  Being an art enthusiast and hobbyist, Uzair believe that everyone can and should use art as a utility of expression. It can be in the form of drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, or anything that helps us connect better with this world and those around us.

• Vanessa Maybeck

  Dr. Vanessa Maybeck is a bioelectronics researcher with expertise in molecular cell biology and neurobiology. Her work investigates how neurons and man-made devices can communicate through light, electricity, and touch. Leading a multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists, and bioengineers she explores how to program information into neuronal networks and interpret their outputs. Her work aims to reveal how living systems process and exchange information—and how this knowledge can inspire new bioelectronic technologies. Previously a lecturer in biochemistry, she has authored 32 peer-reviewed publications with more than 1,400 citations.