Lunch & Talk - Wissenschaft im Gespräch: Karriere innerhalb und außerhalb der Hochschule

About the speakers

Professor Leyla Dogruel has held the Chair of Communication Studies with a focus on Social Communication at the University of Erfurt since June 2023. She is also Deputy Director of the ErfurtLab and Deputy Faculty Equal Opportunities Officer (Faculty of Humanities).

Leyla Dogruel studied at the TU Ilmenau before completing her doctorate on media innovations at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the FU Berlin in 2012. From 2017 to 2023, Leyla Dogruel held the Junior Professorship for Media Systems and Media Performance at the Institute of Journalism Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Dr Folker Metzger has been working at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar since 2007, initially as team leader and since 2020 as head of the Cultural Education Department.

He studied history, German and education at the Karlsruhe University of Education and then worked as a museum educator at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe. Folker Metzger then headed the Education and Mediation Department at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden and subsequently the Education Department at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.

While working at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Folker Metzger completed his doctorate in educational science at the Karlsruhe University of Education in 2014.