Leonie Buschkamp is a sociologist and organizational researcher. She works as a research associate at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society at Leibniz University Hannover. Her research focuses on multiple competition, particularly in the science and higher education system, with an emphasis on the competitive positioning of universities and their members. In her doctoral thesis, Leonie Buschkamp examines the competitive strategies and games of universities as organizations.
Ministry for Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg, Germany
Philipp Meller is a policy officer at a state ministry for science and research in Germany. He supervises non-university research institutes and the cross-cutting issues of Research and Development (R&D) and the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation (PFI, BuFI). Previously, he worked as a history lecturer at university (2014─2017) and as a science manager in higher education. From 2017 to 2019, he was part of the founding team of the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, coordinating the political negotiations and the establishment of the institute’s administrative...
Tim Seidenschnur is a research associate in the DFG-funded project "Multiple competition in research and teaching: South Korea and the USA as international comparative cases" and is coordinating the DFG research group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education”. From April 2024 to February 2025, he held the deputy professorship “Higher Education Research” at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kassel. From 2021 to 2024 he has already coordinated the DFG research group “Multiple Competition in the Higher Education” and was a research...
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Professor Zhang Junchao has been engaged in research and teaching in the field of higher education studies since she obtained her Ph.D. in 2008.Her primary research fields include higher education policy and institutional research. Currently, she serves as a professor at the School of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. In addition, she concurrently holds the roles of vice president and secretary-general of the Institutional Research Branch of China Association of Higher Education(CAHE).
Prof. Zhang is the author of several academic books.“The Flowing...
