Dr. Yasmin Djabarian is Head of Innovation Hub & Team Development at Hochschulforum Digitalisierung (German Forum for Higher Education in the Digital Age; abbreviated: HFD) at Stifterverband in Berlin. Here she is responsible for programs to strengthen student participation and participatory, innovative designs of universities through co-creative collaboration processes.

Before joining HFD in 2018, she was a research associate at the Center for Quality Assurance and Development at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She studied American Studies and Journalism in Mainz, Washington, DC, and Atlanta and completed her PhD in Transnational American Studies in Mainz.