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Katrin Rosswog heads the finance department at our research center. But numbers aren’t her only passion. She is also a keen reader. And, her recommendation for you is the latest novel by a popular German author - a story from the far north.

Neurobiologist Gary Lewin heads the Molecular Physiology of Somatosensory Perception research group. His reading recommendation takes us into the world of the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell.

Jean-Yves Tano has been at the Max Delbrück Center since 2018, offering guidance to postdocs who are planning their next career moves. In our reading tip, he presents the audio version of “Caste”, a book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

Kirstin Bodensiek is head of the legal department and thus responsible for all legal issues at the research center - whether it's compliance issues and public procurement law or the rules of cooperation with universities or other research institutions. Her reading tip reveals her passion for foreign worlds and the desire for discovery.

Karsten Häcker is Chief Information Officer at the Max Delbrück Center. He loves the world of science as much as the world of computers. Sporting challenges and discoveries are his metier. In his reading tip, a science fiction novel, he takes you to the North Pole.

As coordinator for sustainability, Michael Hinz is ensuring that the MDC matches excellent research with sustainable development and greenhouse gas-neutral work. Here, he recommends a novel about the eventful history of a Gründerzeit building and its inhabitants

Dr. Oksana Seumenicht is a member of the Research Funding Department team at the MDC. Books were always something very important in her life – she still remembers herself as a proud 6-year-old borrowing books from the public library in the little town in the southern Ukraine where she grew up.

Eileen Demmler is a trainee at MDC and currently works in the communications department. She describes herself as a passionate reader. In our current reading recommendation, she reviews a book by Deborah Harkness – just in time for Walpurgis Night.

Thomas Sommer is the Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, and he heads the research group "Intracellular Proteolysis". His reading tip is dedicated to a novel written in 1936 by a German author in exile. The book describes the fate of a mime in the dictatorship.

Dr Alexander Mildner leads a working group at the MDC funded by a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation. Last year, according to the US firm Clarivate Analytics, he was one of the most cited researchers in the world. Here he recommends an almost forgotten children's book with an important message for our times.