Who we are

BioWissKomm is a small but well connected company dedicated to support science communication in schools and the public but also to help scientists in teaching and research.

Wolfgang Nellen, Dr. rer. nat.

Professor for Genetics (emeritus.)

Research aereas: Basic research on epigenetics, chromatin organisation and small regulatory RNAs (siRNA, miRNA) in the model organism Dictyostelium.

2010 to 2013 President German Genetics Society (GfG)
2011 to 2014 President German Biologists Socienty (VBIO)
since 2021 Editor in Chief of BiuZ, a German language journal with review articles covering the entire field of biosciences.
1996 Founder of the school and public lab „Science Bridge“ (first under the name „MobiLab“)
Development, organisation and implementation of various teaching and information formats for schools, special interest groups (priests, artists, farmers, teachers etc.) and the general public. Activities mostly in Germany but also in Switzerland, Austria, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kasachstan.
Funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Reseach Association (DFG), German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) and various foundations.

Our expertise

We can draw on 25 years of experience from ‘Science Bridge’. The non-profit association with members from research and teaching organises laboratory courses for everyone as well as seminars, workshops, science cafés and much more.

BioWissKomm emerged under the same founder, Prof Wolfgang Nellen. The company builds on the expertise and skills of existing and new employees. A group of artists working in design, graphics and illustration support us with the easy-to-understand, sometimes funny visualisation of bioscientific processes through comics or short stop-motion videos.

We also work together with scientists from specialised biological societies who offer us advice on the latest scientific developments.

Freelance staff

BioWissKomm works with a team of freelancers with different expertise.

Sarah Block

Sarah studied biology, politics, economics and history at the University of Kassel. She gained an insight into international research at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Sheree Domingo

Sheree draws comics that have been published in the Berliner Zeitung and Le Monde Diplomatique, among others. Her comic debut ‘Ferngespräch’ (Grimmelshausen Prize 2021) was published by Edition Moderne.

Khalid Abdullah

Khalid is our animator and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Biology (BSc) at Jember University in East Java, Indonesia, in 2020. Since November 2021, he has been working on his master’s thesis at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences as part of an exchange programme.

Lukas Kummer

Lukas Kummer has been working as a freelance illustrator and comic artist since 2014. He previously gained experience in the realisation of scientific content in comic form in collaboration with the Institute of Structural Mechanics/Building Dynamics at the University of Kassel.

Jann Buttlar

Jann is a Freelance educational lecturer and textbook author. His research focus during his studies was Metastasis of pancreatic cancer in the liver and basic research on epigenetics in the model organism Dictyostelium discoideum.

Jürgen Fritsch

PD Dr. Jürgen Fritsch studied biology in Kassel, then went to Kiel for his doctorate (zoophysiology, CAU Kiel) and post-doc (immunology, UK-SH). Since 2018, he has been working at the University Hospital Regensburg in the Department of Hospital Hygiene and Infectiology.

Carlo Klein

Dr. Carlo Klein studied biology at the University of Kassel from 2010 with a stopover at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, and in 2016 he went to the Centre for Synthetic Microbiology at the Philipps University of Marburg for his doctoral thesis.

Stephan Auner

Stephan has been working as a freelance graphic and web designer since 2005. He spent 2 years in Tanzania volunteering, travelling and teaching and since 2022 he has been working mainly in the tourism industry and runs an association to promote education in Tanzania.

Join us!

If you are interested in biology and science communication, then get in touch with us and become part of our team!

BioWissKomm Ambassador

Science Bridge, the predecessor of BioWissKomm, did not only work in Germany but also had long lasting contacts to more than 20 Indonesian universities. We do our best to continue these collaborations.
During the last two years we have established contacts to schools and NGOs in Tansania. We will try to extend these collaborations with the help of young “BioWissKomm-Ambassadors”.
They can serve as first contacts, answer questions and help to work out a suitable project.
You may contact BioWissKomm directly, in some cases it may be easier to first talk to the Ambassadors in the local language.