The authors
Nathalie Meier
Nathalie Meier is an economist who works full-time as an advisor in asset management and was a presenter for this company on Fridays for the programme "Finanzwoch" on Luxembourg television. She is currently reinventing herself by opening a second-hand concept store.
In her spare time, she has trained in health and fitness. She is a book author and presenter in this context.
At Expressis-Verbis, she takes care of the content and design of the websites, as well as communication and national and international networking with scientists, authors, reporters and many more.
Thierry Simonelli
Dr. Dr. Thierry Simonelli is a psychoanalyst, doctor of psychology and philosophy. He has taught psychology and philosophy at various universities in Paris, Reims, Metz and Luxembourg and is the author of several books. He has been in private practice as a psychoanalyst in Luxembourg since 2001.
Michel Decker
Michell Decker is a retired engineer with degrees in construction and environmental sciences, including water.
He has learned a dozen languages and has worked in many countries on four continents as a technical advisor.
Pierre Obertin
Pierre Obertin is a mathematician and teaches at a Luxembourg secondary school.
Before that, he had been working independently in the field of website programming for several years.
At Expressis-Verbis, he is responsible for mathematics, statistics, logic and analysis.
Claude Pauly
Claude Pauly is a freelance filmmaker, director, musician and photographer.
He is very interested in the topics of health and fitness.
At Expressis-Verbis he is responsible for media content around films, interviews, photography and their technical processing.
Pierre Welter
Pierre Welter is a journalist and philosopher.
He is co-author of the book about the "Bommeleeër trial" "Wat net däerf sinn, ass net." Welter worked for ten years as a court chronicler for the daily newspaper "Lëtzebuerger Journal". For one year he wrote as a correspondent for the daily newspaper "Tageblatt". At Expressis-Verbis, he is responsible for the areas of culture and justice.
Our guest authors
Dr. Daniele Ganser
Daniele Ganser is a Swiss historian and peace researcher and heads the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER). He investigates the topics of peace, energy, media, war, and terror and aims to strengthen those people who are committed to peace, non-violent conflict resolution, renewable energy and education with his lectures and books. You can find more info at: https://www.danieleganser.ch
Florian Schilling
Florian Schilling completed his preclinical medical studies at the LMU Munich from 2001 to 2003 and a Heilpraktiker training at the ZfN Munich. 2006-2017 he worked in his own practice, with a focus on oncology and neuroinflammation. In 2018-2019 he lived in Asia for two years and worked as a Project Manager at Bumrungrad International Hospital Bangkok. Responsibilities: research projects in the field of Transnational Science and the supervision of integrative medicine clinics in Southeast Asia. Main focus during this time: cell therapies for neurodegenerative and oncological diseases (stem cells, NK cells, CAR-T cells), immunotherapy for solid tumours and adjuvant metabolic tumour therapy. He has been back in Germany since the end of 2019 and works as a scientific director at the company Mitocare in Munich. His hobbies are immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology.
Prof. Dr. Michael Esfeld
Michael Esfeld has been Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Lausanne since 2002. Doctorate Münster 1994 on “Mechanism and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes”, Habilitation Konstanz 2000 on “Holism in the Philosophy of Mind and the Philosophy of Physics”, 2000 Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, 2001 C3 Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cologne, since 2010 Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 2013 Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Main fields of research are natural philosophy, including the metaphysics of the natural sciences, and the philosophy of mind, including the philosophy of language.
Dr. Milosz Matuschek
Lawyer, journalist and author of several books. Columnist for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter, retired NZZ columnist; former deputy editor-in-chief of Schweizer Monats. Twitter: @m_matuschek
Prof. Thomas-Michael Seibert
Thomas-Michael Seibert, born in 1949, was a judge from 1982 to 2011, most recently presiding over a criminal and civil division at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court. In 1998, he was appointed honorary professor at the Department of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he teaches legal theory.
Prof. Stephan Russ-Mohl
Stephan Russ-Mohl is professor emeritus of journalism and media management at the University of Lugano and founder of the European Journalism Observatory. His most recent volume, published in 2020, is "Streitlust und Streitkunst. Discourse as the Essence of Democracy" (Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne).
Ole Skambraks
Ole Skambraks, born in 1979, studied Political Science and French at Queen Mary University in London, as well as Media Management at the ESCP Business School in Paris. He was a Moderator, Reporter and Writer at Radio France Internationale, Online Editor and Community Manager at cafebabel.com, Programme Manager of the MDR Sputnik morning show and Editor at WDR Funkhaus Europa / Cosmo. He is currently working as an Editor in Programme Management/Sound Design at SWR2.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach
The clinical psychologist, philosopher and historian of science Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald Walach is a professor at the Medical University of Poznan, Poland and a visiting professor at the University of Witten-Herdecke (Philosophical Foundations of Psychology). He is also the founder and director of the "Change Health Science Institute". Prof. Harald Walach Visiting Professor Witten-Herdecke University Department of Psychology