Stephanie Siewert is a Programme Director and Team Lead of the Communications unit at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Prior to that, she was a Research and Communication Officer at the German Ethics Council and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). She also taught literary and cultural studies at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Potsdam. Stephanie holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has spent her academic career in Germany, the U.S., and France. Her passion is storytelling in all forms and languages.