short vita

Since 2018, Julia Warmers has served as head of the Department for Funding and Cooperation (formerly Office of Funded Programmes and Corporate Relations). The department is responsible for third-party funding projects and cooperation agreements, special funding programs by the state of Berlin, the awarding of the Deutschlandstipendium (support for students), the partnership with the University of Oxford, and the management of the Foundation of the Berlin University of the Arts.

She has held various positions at the UdK Berlin since 2012, served in the Office for Strategic and Academic Policy and was responsible for the activities by the UdK Berlin in the context of the Excellence Strategy, several inter-university research projects in the field of digitalization and sustainability as well as the “Hybrid Plattform” to promote inter- and transdisciplinary projects in research and teaching. Since 2023, she has been a member of the board of the Berlin University of the Arts Foundation.

Previously, Julia Warmers directed the “art, science & business” program at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2005–2012), taught in the Department of General and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (2010–2013), was a scientific assistant in the research project “The Post-Communist Condition” at the Center for Art and Media, ZKM Karlsruhe (2003–2005), and co-partner at DOKU ARTS – International Festival for Films on Art in Berlin (2011–2016). Parallel to her studies of German literature, social sciences, and history at the University of Essen she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, KWI Essen.

Julia Warmers has published and lectured on the interrelation of art and science. Her publications include “Kunstforschung als ästhetische Wissenschaft. Beiträge zur transdisziplinären Hybridisierung von Wissenschaft und Kunst” (Art Research as Aesthetic Science. Contributions to Transdisciplinary Hybridization of Science and Art; editor with Martin Tröndle, 2011).

In the term of office from 2023 to 2028, Julia Warmers is a member of the University Council at the University of Arts Linz.