SEARCH FORM Search You are here: Home / Study / Career / Alumni Gallery ALUMNI GALLERY Graduates of Jacobs University follow a variety of career paths all over the world – may it be a professional or academic career or even the leap into entrepreneurship. We want to share with you some of the exciting stories of our alumni. Read what they have to say about the Jacobs experience and how it helped them personally and professionally. To our Alumni Tell your Jacobs story! We want to hear about your highlights at Jacobs and the journey following after graduation. Please take a few minutes to complete the alumni questionnaire! Share your career experience in an online event Host your own online event and give back to the Jacobs community with knowledge, advice, and guidance for the next generation about how you started your career. Complete your Alumni Career Talk registration today. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION JACOBS ALMALINK JACOBS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE ALUMNI CAREER TALK REGISTRATION YouTube is disabled. ✓ Allow In this short videos former students reflect their time at Jacobs University. They tell what they searched and found at Jacobs University and how their studies helped them to reach their personal goals. YouTube is disabled. ✓ Allow For the largest Homecoming event in the history of Jacobs University, over 175 alumni from all over the world came home to celebrate their reunion on campus of Jacobs University. Aulon Kuqi Computer Science | 2017 | Albania All campus activities organized by students are the core of our life on campus. I have organized, participated, and competed, in multiple and diverse events. Each of them expanded my point of view, my ideology, my knowledge, and my experience. Read more… Aleksandar Gyorev Computer Science | 2015 | Bulgaria Jacobs was my top and only choice. Read more... Darin Madzharov Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 2009 | MSc Communications, Systems and Electronics | 2011 | Bulgaria It’s not just the curriculum of the program, which is strong, but acquiring engineering thinking, which can be applied to any field, including business. Read more... Erica Staufert Carvalho Industrial Engineering | 2015 | Brazil Jacobs taught me a lot about the German culture in regards to working, it gave me actual job experience through my semester internship. Read more... Usman Ramay Industrial Engineering | 2011 | Pakistan At that point, it seemed like so much effort to get up in the morning, 7 am, and go to those tours, and visit those warehouses, but today when I go to one of my Amazon warehouses, I’m able to challenge the general managers. Read more… Sandra Estefania Ullrich Gavilanes Information Technology | 2010 | Ecuador In my current role, I am in charge of 3 customer accounts in the industrial and automotive sectors. Read more... Lina Diaconu Supply Chain Engineering & Management | 2014 | Moldavian Being part of the graduate program was not only a good transition from "student-life" to the “full time employee-life", but it also gave me the opportunity to work and travel around Asia and learn a lot about the company in a very short time. Read more... Catherine Jacob-Dolan Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2018 | USA Jacobs University has given me a ton of specialist knowledge. But most of all, the university has taught me to make something of myself. Read more… Lisa Rodermund Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 2016 | Germany Despite being a small institution, I found that Jacobs University is known to many prestigious graduate institutions in my field and has a reputation of conferring great practical skills to the students. Read more… Hashem Al Ghaili Medical and Life Sciences | 2015 | Yemen I am a Science Communicator, and to become a Science Communicator, you have to understand science! Read more... Fabian Russmann Physics | 2012 | Germany I discovered Jacobs at the end of my high school, and I was immediately convinced by the concept of it – small, international, and transdisciplinary – because in a German university, you are pretty much bound to your major from day one. Jacobs programs are not like that at all. Read more… Isabel Gora Global Economics and Management | 2014 | Zimbabwe Jacobs, “the Bubble”, will offer you an experience that will make you stand out everywhere you go, be it at work, or at home. Read more... Rico Dittrich Humanities and Social Sciences | 2015 | Germany I learned a lot from the people I now call friends, not only in class where different points of view were highly appreciated, and enriched conversations, but also in the day-to-day campus life. Read more… Konstantin Mihov Humanities and Social Sciences | 2007 & 2009 | Bulgaria The experience of living in a campus with such a broad range of cultures and studying not for method but for the big problems of our age remains unique. Read more... Francoise De Sutter Olmedo Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology | 2015 | Belgium / Ecuador In high school, I did not really participate in many events or clubs, but at Jacobs, I have lost count on how many activities I took part in. Read more… Yingzhao Zhu Integrated Social Sciences | 2016 | China What you will experience at JU will be with you forever, and you will be amazed at how amazing they will turn out to be… lessons for life, friends for life, and memories for life. It’s a place that inspires you to figure out, and be who you want to be. Read more… Anna Ladyshenski Integrated Social Sciences | 2011 | Germany/Russia Universities in Germany are big, they are a bit anonymous At Jacobs, everybody knows everyone, and it’s a very strong feeling of “we belong together”. Read more... Leonoor Cornelissen International Politics & History | 2013 | Netherlands I currently work as a Migration and Development Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. On campus there were always clubs, there was really a sense of community in order to let me develop safely at that age in the person that I wanted to become. Read more… Tyler Buchman Computer Science | 2015 | USA The Computer Science program is at Jacobs is fantastic. The courses are rigorous but you will learn more than you thought possible. Read more... Anca Dragan Computer Science | 2009 | Romania In 2009, Anca graduated from Jacobs with her BSc in Computer Science. She now is a multiple award-winning scientist and became a professor at Berkeley at the age of 27. “Jacobs University is a great springboard”, Anca says. Read more... Jiaqi Song Industrial Engineering | 2016 | China Jacobs is a place of wonder. People live in harmony here despite conflicts between their countries or religions. Read more… Aman Bhattarai Industrial Engineering | 2014 & 2016 | Nepal Jacobs gave me eyes to look at the world with a completely different angle. It taught me to judge humanity above nationality, culture or religion. Read more… Cornel Amariei Information Technology | 2015 | Romania Cornel Amariei studied Engineering at Jacobs University. Today he is one of the “30 under 30" the most influential people in Europe. Read more… Daniel Alonso Garcia Rodriguez Information Technology | 2008 | Mexico The way that Jacobs University helped me reach my personal goal was by being my gateway to Germany. Read more... Bersal Williams Biochemistry and Cell Biology | 2019 | Zimbabwe/ Portugal Before arriving at Jacobs, I already knew a fair amount about the university but I had no way of knowing how valuable coming here would be for my future. Katharina Justine Hartman Biochemistry & Cell Biology | 2016 | USA / Germany Honestly, to keep it short and sweet, without my Jacobs education, I do not think I would be where I am now in the research world in terms of receiving substantial internship/job offers. Read more… Gabriela Wiederkehr Guerra Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2015 | Guatemala / Switzerland After graduation, I worked for a year in Peru with an NGO called Fauna Forever. I became certain in what ambit of my career I wanted to focus on. Read more… Megi Mustafai Medical and Life Sciences | 2015 | Albanian Everyone tells you how high the student engagement is – it just does not compare to actually living it. Read more… Stefan Rustler Physics | 2012 | Germany, Thailand Jacobs provided me with a solid education and the confidence to continue my studies at one of the best universities worldwide for my master’s program at ETH Zurich. Read more ... Varun Dadlani Global Economics and Management | 2013 | Chilean/Indian I always wanted the full campus experience - something not very common in Europe. Jacobs did offer it, paired with an English-taught program and in a progressive country like Germany. Read more... Laura Garcia Humanities and Social Sciences | 2014 | Honduras My favorite thing about the Jacobs study program was the multi-disciplinary approach. It broadened my horizons and made think differently. Read more... Anna Kuznetsova Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology | 2016 | Ukraine It started with such amazing and caring events like O-Week, where you really get a chance to settle in properly and you notice that people really care that you are doing well. Read more… Nada Hashweh Integrated Social and Cognitive Psychology | 2015 | Palestine The people and friends I met at Jacobs opened my eyes to the various ideas and issues related to their culture and countries which gave me a bigger understanding of the world as a whole. Read more... Max Lohmann Integrated Social Sciences | 2012 | Germany I am a policy advisor, working mostly on consulting the ministry for economic collaboration development in international policy processes. Read more... Ivan Zahorec Integrated Social Sciences | 2004 | Slovakia After Jacobs, I started in international cooperation projects, where thanks to my skills acquired at the university, I started profiling as project manager. Lisa Begusch International Politics & History | 2012 | Austria Since two years, I’ve been with Michael Page now, in my current position as a consultant in recruiting - a "Headhunter". 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