UA Ruhr New York Team
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schembecker
President and Treasurer
E-mail: gerhard.schembecker [at] uaruhr.de
Dr. Barbara Schneider
UA Ruhr NY Coordinator
Email: barbara.schneider [at] uaruhr.de
Barbara is the Director of the International Office at TU Dortmund University. Her responsibilities include the coordination of the New York office from the German side. Prior to joining the International Office, Barbara worked in the American Studies Department where she was involved in the orientation program for students from North America. She wrote her dissertation on international education focusing on student exchange between the United States and Germany. For more details, see Barbara's page on the website of the International Office at TU Dortmund University.
Priya S. Nayar
Executive Director
E-mail: priya.nayar[at]uaruhr.de
Priya has been leading the New York office since the summer of 2021, supporting and facilitating academic collaborations between the three Ruhr Universities and a steadily growing network of partners in the United States and Canada. Prior to joining UA Ruhr, Priya was the Director of Fresenius University of Applied Sciences where she opened the first New York City based German Study Center and built a robust network of academia-industry stakeholders. Before that, she worked for the North American liaison offices of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich. For more details, see her LinkedIn profile.
Long Do Hoang
Communications Officer & Project Assistant
E-mail: intern[at]uaruhr.de / ruhrfellows[at]uaruhr.de
Long completed his internship at the New Yorker office of UA Ruhr in March 2021 until he officially started his position as Communications Officer in August 2021. His main responsibilities include the support of the conception and execution of the two Fellowship Programs as well as the online presence of the liason office of UA Ruhr. Prior to joining the team, Long gained first working experience in project management and online marketing at the International Office of University Duisburg Essen where he helped establish multiple successful media outlets like the online blog #heimatdiezweite, IG account and website of the UDE Auslandslots*innen project. He also worked in corporate as a Marketing and Growth consultant. See more details on his LinkedIn profile.
Kira Heetpass
Intern
E-mail: intern[at]uaruhr.de / kira.heetpass[at]tu-dortmund.de
Kira is the current research intern at the UA Ruhr Liason Office in New York. She will support the Transatlantic Ruhr Fellowship Program 2022 as well as assist in research in the field of international exchange and education. She is very passionate about this topic and hopes that her research will help future exchange students and scholars because Kira herself has spent three years of her life as an exchange student and scholar in the US, most recently teaching German at the University of Iowa for a year. Before joining the team, she has worked at TU Dortmund University in the coordinating office for Applied Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies and in the ERASMUS+ program.
