Explore the EDUC TESE Days Community

Meet the PhD candidates and mentors connected to EDUC TESE Days 2026. Browse profiles, discover research areas, and connect with peers across institutions.

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This showcase highlights mentors and the participants research projects and academic interests, and invites you to connect, exchange ideas, and discover potential collaborations.

All EDUC partner universities are represented. To help you navigate, we have organised the participants by their home universities. On top you will find an overview of the mentors.

TESE Days Mentors

Mentor #1: Cécile Bauer

Student Entrepreneurship Officer at Pépite Bretagne

Mentor #2: Csenge Tóth

Openup - Product Manager at University of Pécs | Founder of Nőkre hangolva | Manager at Simonyi BEDC Entrepreneurship Center

Mentor #3: Laura Sager

Director of Science Talents & Entrepreneurship at the Falling Walls Foundation

Mentor #4: Mary Anderson-Glenna

Team Leader for Competitive Research Funding, University of South-Eastern Norway

Mentor #4: Ryan Tamayo Europa

Senior Adviser at the Research and Research Education Unit, University of South Eastern Norway

Mentor #5: Mercè Correa Sanz

Professor in the Psychobiology Division of the Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat Jaume I

Mentor #6: Michela Loi

Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business Sciences, University of Cagliari

Mentor #7: Nathalie Houtzamer

Organizational Psychologist, Lecturer, and PhD Researcher at Masaryk University.

Mentor #8: Núria Sánchez-Pantoja Belenguer

Architect, International PhD, Industrial Doctorate Officer, Universitat Jaume I

Mentor #9: Rob Bongaardt

Professor, Department of Health, Social and Welfare Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway

Mentor #10: Thomas Brekke

Associate professor, PhD. at the USN School of Business, and Research Leader for the Strategic Initiative USN Regional Value Creation

University of Potsdam

Kranti Chalamalasetti

“How can AI move from clever prototypes to reliable partners that collaborate with humans in the real world?”

University of Rennes

Noam Bires

“How reliable is AI when the hardware itself starts to fail?”

Valentin Abgrall

“Security should protect systems without breaking their ability to act on time.”

Benoît Glauser

“By combining chirality and magnetism, I explore how molecules can store information and respond to light in entirely new ways.

Eloi Fresnel

“Smarter antennas, not just more hardware, could define the future of space.”

Azar Hadi

“How does the human body respond to electromagnetic exposure during pregnancy?”

Ioannis Zacharioudakis

“Not all hardware faults are dangerous, but the few that are can change everything.”

Léandre Lebon

"Local democracy has the capacity to bring structural responses to disinformation, beyond digital literacy."

Sylvain Dubois

“In complex RF systems, performance emerges from how everything works together.”

University Paris Nanterre

Mellissa Aramayo Alonso

“Sustainable development works best when communities are not treated as beneficiaries, but as knowledge holders.”

Siddharth Choudhary

“Public health emergencies test not only our systems, but our commitment to rights and trust.”

Pauline Coeuret

“Showing violence on screen can either reproduce it or expose the structures that allow it to exist.”

University of Cagliari

Qaisar Ali

“Understanding how RNA processing fails may be key to understanding neurodegeneration.”

Fabio Corona

“So what really holds communities back, even when everyone wants to grow?”

Enrico Concu

“Waste is not the end of a process, it can be the beginning of a clean energy system.”

Francesca Chiara Serri

“Resilience does not come from stability, it comes from learning how to move.”

Parisa Endallah

“Recovering critical metals does not have to start in a mine, it can start in a plant.”

Jefferson Rodriguez

“How do we protect identity in a world where images can be perfectly manipulated?”

Luca Sergi

"Structural plasticity does not just help brains learn faster, it helps them learn better, and generalize beyond what they have seen."

Jaume I University

Adrián Pablo Cardozo Ríos

“If hate speech moves online, peacebuilding has to move there too.”

University of South-Eastern Norway

Monish Bajracharya

“Cultural heritage sites reveal how climate risk, governance, and capacity intersect.”

Seyedehmehrsa Fatemi

“Digitalization and sustainability fail not because of missing strategies, but because organizations struggle to implement them together.”

Tanja Bredesen

“Digital health solutions only scale when people believe in them.”

Michelle Collins

“Grief is not only expressed through people, it is shaped by sound, space, and the material conditions that bring people together.”

Gayathry Thampi

“Advanced packaging technologies shape the reliability of entire microsystems.”

Sinou Wu

“Virtual collaboration is no longer about distance, but about how digital spaces shape the way we work together.”

Alessandro Bonfanti

“For long‑term investors, resilience matters more than short‑term returns.”

Duy Tran

“Improving what already exists may be the fastest path to a sustainable energy transition.”

Farjina Jannat Juli

“Understanding the genetics of vision is a step toward preventing lifelong visual impairment.”

Josh Siu

“An ultrasound transducer is only as strong as its weakest component; the true breakthrough lies in engineering devices that can withstand and perform reliably under extreme thermal conditions."

Tajana Nepal

“Flexible hydropower can become a cornerstone of future electricity systems.”

Natansh Vyas

“Innovation fails when stakeholder knowledge is fragmented.”

University of Pécs

Rama Alkhalaileh

“Digital manufacturing only matters if it is safe, usable, and improves real lives.”

Laura Németh

“Making sustainable eating effortless means designing food people genuinely want to eat.”

Dóra Márföldi

“Designing with living organisms means learning to slow down and listen to materials.”

Duong Hai

“How can we combine early, non‑invasive screening with stronger health literacy so people can detect disease sooner and actively protect their quality of life?”

Masaryk University

Yingke Zhu

“Can machine learning really understand financial markets, when noise, speed, and human behavior collide?”

Prosenjit Chakraborty

“Exploring bacterial influence could reveal an unexpected twist in anti-cancer immunity.“

Anna Molíková

“How can AI become a meaningful partner in cancer diagnosis and treatment, rather than just another technical tool?”

Bronislava Adamjáková

"Why do so many people who are entitled to social benefits never apply for them?"

Dev Mani Sharma

“If cities want to empower women, they must first make everyday mobility safe, affordable, and visible.”

Deborah Beckerová

“How early development goes wrong can shape heart disease for a lifetime.”