Steffen Hven received his doctoral degree at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2015. After that he was Associate International Postdoctoral Researcher at the Kompetenzzentrum Medienanthropologie Bauhaus Universität Weimar until 2019. He also was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. In 2021 he became fellow at the CINEPOETICS research group, a joint venture of the Freie Universität Berlin together with Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
2023 marks the start of his own research project at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, “Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Image – CATNEMI.”
Ludo de Roo studied media studies at the University of Amsterdam and obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). In Sydney, he has taught widely in both philosophy and media theory. His publications combine phenomenological philosophy and ecocinema theory, with research on film-philosophical topics such as elemental mediation, the structure of immersion, and cinematic imagination. He also has a monograph in progress on the notion of the ‘elemental image’ capturing how cinematic images of the elements spark a specific type of imagination that plunges the spectator within cinematic worlds. In May 2026, Ludo has joined CATNEMI as a Postdoctoral Researcher with a focus on investigating how other media forms adopt the operations of cinematic atmosphere.
l.deroo(at)filmuniversitaet.de
Jamie Lee Moser holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies as part of the Netzwerk Cinema Program from the University of Zurich. She was a student assistant in the digital humanities project «Timeline of Historical Film Colors» by Prof. Dr. Barbara Flückiger at the Department of Film Studies of the University of Zurich. She held a graduate scholarship at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and is starting from November 2024 as a PhD researcher in the ERC-Project «CATNEMI – Cinematic Atmospheres: Towards a New Ecology of the Moving Image» at Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Her research focuses primarily on the interdependencies between politics, aesthetics and space in film and media art and on the links between phenomenological, post-cinematic and post-humanist approaches in film and media studies.
Lukas Becker did his doctoral degree on James Joyce, after studying english literature at the LMU München and the University of Leeds. He lived in the UK and Ireland for 15 years and did administrative work for several universities, amongst them University of the Arts London.
He returned to Germany in 2018 and joined the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in 2023 as EU project manager, foremost involved with the CATNEMI project.
Alexander Wiese did his Bachelor at Freie Universität Berlin, where he’s currently working on his Master thesis on spatial relations in films and video games. He worked as a research assistant at the CINEPOETICS research group and joined the Catnemi team in the same position in 2023.
His own research focus lies on affective spheres in movies, spectatorship as cinematic experience and genre dynamics also as game studies.
