Rubina Zern-Breuer

Dr. Rubina Zern-Breuer is the director of TRACES, the Transfer Center of the University of Stuttgart, where she connects research with industry, public institutions and civil society and supports startups and spin-offs. She chairs the Academic Management of the NXTGN Startup Factory, a federally funded EXIST Startup Factory that links science, industry and capital to accelerate deep-tech spin-offs from universities.

As historian and sociologist by training, she worked on science-to-society transfer at KIT and Heidelberg University and as a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI. In 2022, she was a Fellow of the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades, USA