Intakes

Until today, we welcomed 278 students from 71 countries to the programme. Get to know our students.

14th intake (2024–2026)

31
students
24
countries
Artur Kislitsyn (Russia), Alikhan Beisenbayev (Kazakhstan), Pedro Bonilla Artigas (Mexico), Lilly Tockner (Austria), Federica Ballardini (Italy), Gabriela Spriestersbach (Brazil), Thijs van Laar (Netherlands), Agata Kiseleva (Russia), Tim Pauly (Germany), Beatriz Oliveira de Carvalho (Brazil), Emiel Verté (Belgium), Viera Mlilo (Zimbabwe), Madeleine Boyles (USA), Camille Rahier (Belgium), Lesly Bautista Buendia (Peru), Paula Martín Castillo (Spain), Amilcar Figueroa (Belize), Suphaphong Sirinapaphan (Thailand), Ximing Wang (China), Ching Yeung Wong (China), Miguel Martínez Solano (Mexico), Matteo Duniš (Slovenia), Devita Sari (Indonesia), Yi-Ru Liang (Taiwan), Radhika Dhuri (India), Yvonne Darko (Ghana), Jennyfer Samaniego Cruz (Ecuador), Betty Castro Benavides (Ecuador), Anna Shelegina (Russia), Weiyi Gao (China), Lingyu Tang (China)

13th intake (2023–2025)

28
students
17
countries
Ridwan Waheed (Nigeria), Juan Luis Torres Vaca (Mexico), William Curry III (USA), Brenda Alday (Mexico), Marcel Siedlich (Poland), Madeleine Noet (USA), Pia Wolffram (Germany), Mariam Iqbal (Pakistan), Nargiz Amralina (Kazakhstan), Bella Mironova (Russia), Irene Chang (Canada), Nyasha Chigume (Zimbabwe), Yuxuan Zhang (China), Keying Fan (China), Stefanie Germann (Switzerland), Kseniia Nifontova (Russia), Joselyn Salinas Colunche (Peru), Rica Thißen (Germany), Juliette Bricker (Canada), Carlos Ignacio López Villanueva (Mexico), Itay Swid (Israel), Athina Georgiadi (Greece), Tatiana Pozdnyakova (Russia), Qianyi Cao (China), Itrat Fazal (Pakistan), Jakub Kaczorowski (Poland), Bo-Yuan Chen (Taiwan), Mahyar Bineshtarigh (Iran)

12th intake (2022–2024)

20
students
16
countries
Ulrike Holfeld (Germany), Lennart Kerl (Germany), Ander Palacios (Spain), Samuel Darkwah Manu (Ghana), Natalie O'Dell (USA), Viktor Kochkin (Russia), Gisela Romero Candanedo (Mexico), Nicolás Martínez Heredia (Colombia), Zhenjiang Li (China), Luka Laval (France), Lucia Ganchozo Llano (Paraguay), Melissa del Carmen Ernstberger (Germany), Yi Zhen Chew (Singapore), Isaac Newton Kissiedu (Ghana), Dilara Bozkurt (Turkey), Jan Łyczakowski (Poland), Nicole Yeung (Canada), Ching-Ting Chia (Taiwan), Yanning Wang (China), Phoebe Ly (Malaysia)

11th intake (2021–2023)

11th Intake
20
students
12
countries
Evripidis Avouris (Greece), Jiapan Wang (China), Yağız Kara (Turkey), Vanessa Henkes (Germany) with Rosie, Zihan Liu (China), Tea Muraj (Albania), Oskar Baumann (Austria), Eliezer Fajardo Figueroa (Venezuela), Mihir Desai (India), Sabahet Ali (Pakistan), Tanqi Li (China), Weichen Xu (China), Myrto-Panagiota Bouloukou (Greece), Monika Krautschneider (Austria), Poornima Badrinath (India), Camila Narbaitz-Sarsur (Argentina), Manuela Londono Jimenez (Colombia), Julia Schiller (Germany), Sacha Schlumpf (Switzerland), not on the picture: Jiongyan Zhang (China)

10th intake (2020–2022)

29
students
20
countries
Darya Lapo (Belarus), Gongmingyue Tang (China), Camilo Cardona Torres (Colombia), Majk Shkurti (Albania), Enock Seth Nyamador (Ghana), Zhuo Yang (China), Liam Fleming (Ireland), Sasanka Lanka Madawalagama (Sri Lanka), Alexandros Theofanidis (Greece), Ana Oliva Pinilla Pachon (Colombia), Esme Middaugh (USA), Sangho Lee (South Korea), Héctor Ochoa Ortiz (Spain), Zulfa 'Afifah (Indonesia), Lydia Youngblood (USA), Samantha Levi (USA), José Pablo Ceballos Cantu (Mexico), Zhiheng Jiao (China), Joel Salazar (Ecuador), Yiwei Wang (China), Jonathan King (USA), Iaroslav Boretskii (Russia), Nele Peschel (Germany), Jiaying XUE (China), Vivien van Dongen (Netherlands), Valerian Lange (Germany), Syed Miftah Zeya (India), Hassam Ali (Pakistan), Leo Hoi Yeung Tang (USA)

9th intake (2019–2021)

25
students
18
countries
Ceren Dolma (Turkey), Jakob Listabarth (Austria), Julius Nyonyo (Ghana), Sadhman Sadik (Bangladesh), Sagnik Mukherjee (India), Ozan Tuncbilek (Turkey), Jesse Friend (USA), Ben McLeod (Germany), Nina Ioseliani (Russia), Muhammad Hamza (Pakistan), Shlesha Acharya (Nepal), Junru Lin (China), Anouska Jaspersen (Netherlands), Festina Sadiku (Kosovo), Sifa Mawiyoo (Kenya), Milana Glebova (Russia), Mariam Gambashidze (Georgia), Stephanie Fovenyessy (USA), Nargiz Kurumbayeva (Kazakhstan), Estefania Ruiz Martinez (Colombia), Md Imtiaz Uddin (Bangladesh), Mengyao Gao (China), Larissa Saad (Syria), Xiyu Wang (China), Olesia Ignateva (Russia)

8th intake (2018–2020)

30
students
19
countries
John Ogunbiyi (Nigeria), Sathish Emmanuel Sahayaraj (India), Arslan Muhammad Aslam (Pakistan), Jonas Beinder (Germany), Sebastian Hancock (USA), Guillermo Esquivel Tabares (Colombia), Michael Hallett (UK), Rosalie Kremser (Germany), Jenny Janssen (Germany), Olha Ostrovna (Ukraine), Adebayo Ishola (Nigeria), Mostafa Kheyrollahi Kouhanestani (Iran), Mohammad Monir Hossen (Bangladesh), John Douglas McCall (USA), Andrew Taylor (UK), Luke Harvey (UK), Nikita Slavin (Russia), Jack Stephan (USA), Danai-Maria Kontou (Greece), Valeriia Shurupina (Russia), Shweta Naik (India), Sharon Chawanji (Zimbabwe), Shah Taj (Pakistan), Bibigul Zhunis (Kazakhstan), Daphné Tapia (France), Brandon Serrao (Trinidad and Tobago), Verena Klasen (Germany), Lin Zhu (China), Dennis Dizon (Philippines), not on the picture: Lorenzo Libertini (Italy)

7th intake (2017–2019)

24
students
20
countries
Metrine Bwisa (Kenia), Zarina Acero (Argentina), Sarah Palmer (USA), Maira Utebaliyeva (Kazakhstan), Agnieszka Mańk (Poland), Nuzhat Nawshin (Bangladesh), Mengyu Liang (China), Irhamillah Khamsim (Malaysia), Yingwen Deng (China), Elifcan Özyıldırım (Turkey), Victoria Ortega Torres (Ecuador), Maria Athanasiou (Greece), Cinthya Morquecho Díaz (Mexico), Pei Lun Yuan (Taiwan), Lin Che (China), Mohammed Ibrahim (Egypt), Edwin Amegashie (Ghana), Kevin Helzel (Germany), Rima Gebran (Lebanon), Mariana Vallejo Velázquez (Mexico), Iñigo Etxeandia Rodriguez (Spain), Marko Tošić (Serbia), Altynay Kikkarina (Kazakhstan), Wouter van der Meijden (Netherlands)

6th intake (2016–2018)

20
students
16
countries
Madalina Gugulica (Romania), Maia Zumbulidze (Georgia), Moris Zahtila (Croatia), Sarah Phillips (USA), Martin Hilljegerdes (Germany), Jessica Gosling-Goldsmith (USA), Bryant Huether (USA), Christian Haack (Germany), Maria Rühringer (Austria), Yunnan Chen (China), Laura Eichler (Germany), Roar Engell (Denmark), Karen Byrne (Ireland), Seyoum Eshetie (Ethiopia), Natalie Barbosa Mejia (Colombia), Maria Turchenko (Russia), Nita Maulia (Indonesia), Armand Kapaj (Albania), Satarupa Chatterjee (India), Natasha Pirani (Canada)

5th intake (2015–2017)

21
students
13
countries
Junyan Li (China), Kaidi Guo (China), Kaidong Ao (China), Çağlar Satır (Turkey), Christopher Hogg (UK), Ana Carolina do Nascimento Melo (Brazil), Md. Marufur Rahman (Bangladesh), Nevil Kodiyan (India), Jiaqin Ni (China), Zeinab Torabi (Iran), Taras Dubrava (Ukraine), Kate Doyle (UK), Kamila Ćwik (Poland), Chenyu Zuo (China), Keni Han (China), Dragana Subotic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Susanna Abraham (Namibia), Yueying Lu (China), Maja Kalinic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Moustafa Mahgoub (Egypt), Alika Jensen (USA)

4th intake (2014–2016)

15
students
11
countries
Aleksandra Draksler (Slovenia), Furui Sun (China), Chiyuan Gu (China), Shuoyan Huang (China), Vasileios Toutziaris (Greece), Alexandra Jane Strel (Canada), Rohini Gangaputra (India), Katalin Joo (Hungary), Mussab Mohamed Abuelhassan Abdalla (Sudan), Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Abdelhady Hussein (Egypt), Juraj Murcko (Slovakia), Vikram Devi Eswaramoorthy (India), Dayanc Moradi (Iran), Myles Edward Cook (Great Britain), not on the picture: Amir Ashkan Baghdoust (Iran)

3rd intake (2013–2015)

11
students
9
countries
Ethan Oleson (USA), Anudari Batsaikhan (Mongolia), Shirui Wang (China), Yanling Meng (China), Shihui Xu (China), Francisco Daniel Porras Bernárdez (Spain), Sigita Grinfelde (Latvia), Youssef Zouine (Morocco), Petru Adrian Bob (Romania), Katre Karja (Estonia), Benedikt Vidisson (Iceland)

2nd intake (2012–2014)

20
students
12
countries
Maximilian Hartl (Germany), Franz Goerlich (Germany), Ieva Dobraja (Latvia), Panagiota Nikolakakou (Greece), Shahin Sharifi (Iran), Luyi Han (China), Lepin Huang (China), Maria Elena Vargas Amado (Mexico), Lisa Clemens (Germany), Ekaterina Chuprikova (Russia), Anna Vetter (Germany), Smita Singh (India), Anna Makrostergiou (Greece), Mariana Danielova (Czech Republic), Alice Rühl (Germany), Kartika Sari Djati (Indonesia), Ainur Matayeva (Kazakhstan), Lin Dong (China), Anne Lange (Germany), Catherine Hartley (UK)

1st intake (2011–2013)

1st intake 2011–2013
14
students
10
countries
Abdullah Alattas (Saudi-Arabia), Jeff Welter (USA), Meysam Aliakbarin (Iran), Shayan Nikoo Hemmat (Iran), Raluca Nicola (Romania), Mara Jaunsproge (Latvia), Katharina Zöphel (Germany), Zhao Linxueyang (China), Wang Wangshu (China), Carlos Vázquez (Mexico), Mostafa Elfouly (Egypt), Pei Zhang (China), Mohammed Abusohyon (Jordan), not on the picture: Jan Behrens (Germany)