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Employee Profile of Anna Leschanowsky

Anna Leschanowsky

Describe yourself here in one sentence:

»I am enthusiastic about technology and music, prefer to be at home in the world and curious about new things«

Divison: Audio & Media Technologies

Position: Master Student

My Life Motto: You better get to livin’

My Life Hack: One-potdishes

Volunteer Work / Hobbies: Qi Gong, swimming and associations, such as the juFORUM e.V.

Instrument: Guitar

The best part of my Job:

The freedom to experiment and actively shape the technologies of tomorrow.

This is how I will later describe my job to my grandchildren:

In the past, the privacy of users of speech assistants was not as well protected as it is today. I have experimented with different (technical) ways to help users make an informed decision whether to share their data or keep it private.

My dream job as a child:

Author

This is our office jam:

Good idea, I should introduce one!

This is how I experienced onboarding in my department:

Despite many online meetings, it was made easy for me to familiarize myself with others and exchange ideas.

I incorporate the following private interests into my job:

My curiosity to link different fields of knowledge and continuously improve myself.

I particularly enjoyed this training at Fraunhofer:

The Fraunhofer Mentoring Program has helped me grow both personally and professionally.

My favorite Fraunhofer technology:

SPEAKER, the speech assistance platform.

The greatest scientist / inventor of all time:

Ada Lovelace, genius an role model

Four things I associate with Fraunhofer culture:

Innovation, vision, knowledge, cooperation

What I always wanted to say:

I cannot think of a better project for my master thesis!

I prefer ♥

Early Bird ☐ ☒ Night owl

Jeans ☒ ☐ Joggers

Teamplayer ☒ ☐ Lone wolf

Couchpotato ☒ ☒ Sports champ

Nutella ☒ ☐ Nutella with butter

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