![Photograph of Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Kianoosh_Rezania_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-790%2C104%2C4659%2C3973_crop_detail.jpg)
Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion (GSMR)
The “Graduate School of Metaphor and Religion” (GSMR) is the central instrument for promoting early career researchers in the CRC. It links graduate students, doctoral candidates, and postdocs from all disciplines and institutions contributing to the CRC. Through the highest international standards of supervision and training, including a curriculum-based individual training and supervision plan, the GSMR fosters a new generation of researchers for the current and upcoming demands at the intersection of religious studies, philologies, corpus linguitics, and computational linguistics.
GSMR Board
![Photograph of Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Kianoosh_Rezania_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-790%2C104%2C4659%2C3973_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Prof. Dr. Jessie Pons](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Jessie_Pons_V1__sGRB.jpg.150x150_q85_box-181%2C48%2C816%2C683_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Scheffler_Tatjana_rub.jpeg.150x150_q85_box-0%2C52%2C5344%2C5396_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Dr. Nikita Artemov](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Nikita_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1767%2C0%2C5528%2C3769_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Lina Rodenhausen](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Lina_Rodenhausen_V3.jpg.150x150_q85_box-845%2C20%2C4991%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)
GSMR Coordination
![Photograph of Maren Jordan M.A.](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Maren_Jordan_V11_Auswahl.jpg.150x150_q85_box-978%2C0%2C4826%2C3848_crop_detail.jpg)
Members
PhD Candidates
![Photograph of Elsa Küppers](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Elsa_K%C3%BCppers_V3.jpg.150x150_q85_box-2274%2C544%2C5500%2C3771_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Sebastian Reimann](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Sebastian_Reimann_V2.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1166%2C0%2C5316%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Lina Rodenhausen](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Lina_Rodenhausen_V3.jpg.150x150_q85_box-845%2C20%2C4991%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Johannes Steinbach M.Ed.](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/2023-10-16_Johannes_Steinbach-1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-578%2C0%2C4745%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Alexandra Wiemann](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Alexandra_Wiemann_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1040%2C0%2C5200%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)
Postdocs
![Photograph of Dr. Lilith Apostel](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Lilith_Apostel_V3.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1580%2C39%2C5597%2C4062_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Dr. Nikita Artemov](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Nikita_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1767%2C0%2C5528%2C3769_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Dr. Vandana Jha](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Vandana_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-270%2C582%2C3786%2C4098_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Neda Mohtashami PhD](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Neda_M_5FDOEH3.jpg.150x150_q85_box-11%2C35%2C735%2C760_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Dr. Vicky Ziegler](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Vicky_Ziegler_V1.jpg.150x150_q85_box-1048%2C271%2C4752%2C3979_crop_detail.jpg)
Associate Members & Research Fellows
![Photograph of Dr. Gina Derhard-Lesieur](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Gina_Derhard-Lesieur_V2.jpg.150x150_q85_box-811%2C104%2C4701%2C3994_crop_detail.jpg)
![Photograph of Dunja Sharbat Dar](https://static.ceres.rub.de/media/person-pictures/Dunja_Sharbat_Dar_V2.jpg.150x150_q85_box-875%2C0%2C5034%2C4160_crop_detail.jpg)