Fellow Finder
FRIAS Alumni Network
The FRIAS alumni network includes over 1,000 fellows from a wide range of academic disciplines, spanning the humanities, life sciences, and engineering, who have been in residence at the institute since 2008. The Fellow Finder presents an overview of their academic careers and the projects they pursued during their time at FRIAS. Members of our Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS) community are listed in the member area of this page.
All project descriptions are based on the fellowship period at FRIAS and are generally not updated afterwards. Please note: Not all fellow profiles have been transferred to the new website. The most recent cohort with a complete list of fellow profiles is from the 2021/22 academic year. For information about earlier cohorts, please consult the previous version of the website by clicking on the buttons on the right.
Prof. Dr. Chikodili Collins Ajibo
University of Nigeria
Law
External Senior Fellow
October 2024 – April 2025
Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources as a Pathway to Conflict Management
Dr. Atreyee
Banerjee
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Physics (Soft Matter)
Internal Junior Fellow
Oktober 2024 – Juni 2025
Structure-property relationship in soft matters to discover novel materials in silicon
Dr. Jenny Benham
Cardiff University
History, Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow
(FRESCO Programm)
Januar 2024 – Juni 2025
Espionage in the Middle Ages
Dr. Berit Callsen
University of Osnabrück
Romance Cultural Studies
External Senior Fellow
November 2024 – April 2025
“Watery Surroundings – Islandic Conditions: Active Waterscapes in Latin American Literature and Film”
Prof. Dr. Bret Davis
Loyola University Maryland
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Knowledge and Wisdom in Zen Buddhism
Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
Dr. Philipp Höfele
University of Freiburg
Philosophy, Ethics
Fellow of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2024 – September 2027
Digital Anthropocene: AI and Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Birgit Hopfener
Carleton University
Art history, Contemporary art and theory in a global framework
External Senior Fellow
August 2024 – December 2024
Doing Critical Global Art History. Transcultural analyses and a pluriversal conceptual framework for contemporary art historiographic art
Dr. Stephen Howard
KU Leuven
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow
October 2024 – July 2025
A Kantian Epistemic Approach to Climate Change Debates
Dr. Apoli Bertrand Kameni
Université Omar Bongo / Sciences Po Lyon
Political Science, Strategic International Relations
Guest Researcher
November 2024 – December 2024
The Dead Sea’s Minerals: the Blind Spot of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Dr. Benjamin Kraemer
University of Freiburg
Aquatic Ecology
Early Career Fellow
October 2024 – July 2025
Lake dead zones: global drivers and sensitivity to climate change
Prof. Dr. André Krischer
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
Dr. Robert Lee
University of Cambridge
History
External Junior Fellow
September 2024 – June 2025
Superintending Conquest: United States Expansion along the Indian Boundary Line
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Mohney
Pennsylvania State University
Materials Science and Engineering
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
December 2023 – December 2025
Novel Electrodes for Energy Conversion
Prof. Dr. Daniela Müller
Radboud University Nijmegen
Church History, History of Christianity, Canon Law
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Old and New Debates about the Cathars. The Controversy on Catharis
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Nuñez
The University of Michigan
Immunology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Inflammation and Metabolism in Host-Microbial Interactions
Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome
University of Alberta
African Studies, Literature and Cinema
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy
Dr. Felicitas Opwis
Georgetown University
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Language and Hermeneutics in the Islamic Sciences
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Osterhammel
University of Freiburg
History
Distinguished Fellow
March 2019 – December 2025
Balzan Project in Global History: Global Processes and the Dynamics of Regions
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Piller
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Puettmann
Oregon State University
Forest Ecology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Developing and managing new forest ecosystems in times of global change
Dr. Ayesha Qurrat ul Ain
International Islamic University Islamabad
Religious Studies
Guest Fellow
October 2024 – January 2026
Modernity, science and Qurānic Hermeneutics in the Sub-continent: A study of selected responses to Darwinism in the twentieth Century
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bastian E. Rapp
University of Freiburg
Microsystem Engineering, Material Science
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
Prof. Dr. Lauren Rickards
La Trobe University
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Well-adapted sustainability; sustainable adaptation
Dr. Sergio Francisco Romero
University of Texas at Austin
Linguistic Anthropology
External Junior Fellow
January 2025 – August 2025
On God, idols, and language: Latin, Spanish, Arabic, and the Christianization of the highland Maya
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Sansone
University Freiburg
Physics
External Senior Fellow
September 2024 – April 2025
Attosecond correlation spectroscopy and coherent control of molecular dissociation
Dr. Ari Sitas
University of Cape Town / University of Stellenbosch
Sociology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
September 2024
The Shredding of the Mandela Dividend: the Ethic of Reconciliation Proscribed? & Sociology and the London Universal Race Congress of 1911.
Prof. Dr. Claudius Sittig
University of Freiburg
Contemporary German Literature
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
Dr. Robert Spindler
English and German Literature
External Junior Fellow (FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship)
June 2023 – December 2024
Outsiders, Lawbreakers, Apostates, Witches: Figures of Transgression in Narrative English Broadside Ballads (1550-1800)
Prof. Dr. Paulina Starski
University of Freiburg
European and International Law
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
Prof. Dr. Fabian Stroth
University of Freiburg
Archaeology
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
Prof. Dr. Gregg Jørgen Suaning
The University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
Prof. Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis
University of Crete
Biology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
August 2021 – December 2025
The role of mitophagy in neuronal quality control and survival during ageing
Dr. Linus Ubl
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Medieval German Literature and Culture
External Junior Fellow
October 2024 – March 2025
Ars se necandi. Cultural poetics of suicide in the Middle Ages
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia von Ditfurth
University of Freiburg
Art History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
Dr. Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
University of Copenhagen
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
April 2024 – August 2024
Always Already Entwined/ Impure: Buddhist Plastics and Praxis in Oceania
Prof. Dr. Peter Arkadiev
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
November 2023 – August 2024
Argument flagging in head-marking languages: Types of interaction between argument-coding systems
Dr. Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Philosophy
External Junior Fellow
September 2023 – August 2024
Epistemology of complexity through a conceptual and historical discourse analysis of entropy
Dr. Sebastian Baasch
University of Freiburg
Immunology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 – July 2024
Deciphering the cellular reservoir of CMV latency
Prof. Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Stockholm University
Historical Geography
External Senior Fellow
October 2023 – December 2023
Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for famines in early modern Europe
Prof. Dr. Bret Davis
Loyola University Maryland
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Knowledge and Wisdom in Zen Buddhism
Prof. Dr. Raffaella A. Del Sarto
European University Institute
International Relations and Middle East Studies
External Senior Fellow
April 2024
The Mediterranean Middle East between global order and (g)local dilemmas
Dr. Daniel Duzdevich
The University of Chicago
Molecular Biology, Origin of Life and Astrobiology
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 – August 2024
Midnight in the Laboratory: Adventures in the quest for life between test tubes and imagination
Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
Prof. Dr. Birgit Hopfener
Carleton University
Art history, Contemporary art and theory in a global framework
External Senior Fellow
August 2024 – December 2024
Doing Critical Global Art History. Transcultural analyses and a pluriversal conceptual framework for contemporary art historiographic art
Dr. Katarzyna Jankowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University
Linguistics
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2024 – May 2024
Behavioral correlates of gender stereotype processing in bilingualism
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joas
Humboldt University of Berlin
Sociology
Permanent Fellow (University of Freiburg)
April 2013 – March 2014
Distinguished Fellow
January 2021 – December 2023
A Global Genealogy of Moral Universalism (2021-2023)
“Sacralization and Secularization” (2013-2014)
Dr. iur. Aleksandr Khechumyan
Law
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
November 2022 – March 2024
Old Age, Severe Illness, and the Equal Impact of Punishment in Europe
Dr. Matthew Kinloch
University of Oslo
Narratology, History
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 – August 2024
Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann
University of Freiburg
English Language and Linguistics
Rector’s Fellow
April 2024 – July 2024
The Spread of World Languages
Dr. Matthias Kranke
University of Kassel
Social Sciences, Political Science, International Relations and International Political Economy
YAS Fellow
October 2023 – September 2024
Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 – September 2024
Prof. Dr. Henrike Lähnemann
University of Oxford
German Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow
July 2024 – August 2024
Internationalisation and Cooperation. Taking the Oxford – Freiburg connection further
Prof. Dr. Andreas Mehler
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute / University of Freiburg
Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Restitution Governance
Rector’s Fellow
April 2018 – September 2018
April 2024 – July 2024
Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Mohney
Pennsylvania State University
Materials Science and Engineering
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
December 2023 – December 2025
Novel Electrodes for Energy Conversion
Prof. Dr. Daniela Müller
Radboud University Nijmegen
Church History, History of Christianity, Canon Law
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Old and New Debates about the Cathars. The Controversy on Catharis
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Nuñez
The University of Michigan
Immunology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Inflammation and Metabolism in Host-Microbial Interactions
Dr. Ervan Nurtawab
State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Metro
Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
September 2022 – August 2025
Qur’an Manuscripts in Southeast Asia: Differences, Diversities and Standardisation
Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome
University of Alberta
African Studies, Literature and Cinema
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy
Dr. Felicitas Opwis
Georgetown University
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Language and Hermeneutics in the Islamic Sciences
Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Osterhammel
University of Freiburg
History
Distinguished Fellow
March 2019 – December 2025
Balzan Project in Global History: Global Processes and the Dynamics of Regions
Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Puettmann
Oregon State University
Forest Ecology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Developing and managing new forest ecosystems in times of global change
Prof. Dr. Jenny Reardon
University of California
Sociology and History of Science, Science and Technology Studies
External Senior Fellow
March 2024 – August 2024
A Genealogy of Expert Statements on ‘Race’ and Genetics: 1950 to the Present
Prof. Dr. Lauren Rickards
La Trobe University
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Well-adapted sustainability; sustainable adaptation
Dr. Hans-Christian Riechers
University of Basel
German Literature
External Junior Fellow
April 2024 – September 2024
Columbus. A history of literature about the other and the self.
Prof. Dr. Sandro Sessarego
University of Texas at Austin
Spanish and Portuguese Languages
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
May 2023 – August 2024
Afro-Veracruz Spanish and the Afro-Hispanic Language Atlas
Dr. Robert Spindler
English and German Literature
External Junior Fellow (FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship)
June 2023 – December 2024
Outsiders, Lawbreakers, Apostates, Witches: Figures of Transgression in Narrative English Broadside Ballads (1550-1800)
Prof. Dr. Gregg Jørgen Suaning
The University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
Dr. Maria Sulimma
University of Freiburg
North American Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 – July 2024
Gentrification Imaginaries: Postindustrial Literature, Leisure, and Urban Transformations
Prof. Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis
University of Crete
Biology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
August 2021 – December 2025
The role of mitophagy in neuronal quality control and survival during ageing
Dr. Giancarlo Urzúa
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 – December 2023
Categorical and Geometrical Aspects of Algebraic Surfaces
Prof. Dr. Mila Versteeg
University of Virginia
Law
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2024 – August 2024
Understanding Constitutional Failure
Prof. Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo
Bowdoin College
African studies, Caribbean studies, Black studies, Postcolonial studies, Gender, Women and Sexuality studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
May 2024 – July 2024
De/Coloniality Now: Reflections on a Shared Effort
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Prof. Dr. Anika Walke
Washington University in St. Louis
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
December 2023 – August 2024
Bones, Dirt, and Ash: Holocaust Testimony Matters in Belarus
Dr. Michel Abeßer
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
Bound by difference. Interethnic economies at the Russian Empire’s southern periphery
Prof. Dr. Elmira Akhmetova
Institute of Knowledge Integration
History and Civilizational Studies
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
December 2021 – May 2023
Tatar Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in Imperial Russia
Dr. Laura Becker
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
The distribution of zero marking in inflectional morphology: A typological corpus study
Prof. Dr. Jianshu Cao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Physics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
June 2022 – November 2022
Light-harvesting Energy Transfer in Natural and Artificial Systems
Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
Prof. Dr. Karola Kreitmair
University of Wisconsin
Bioethics / Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2023 – June 2023
Phenomenological, existential, and ethical considerations of digital behavioral technology
Prof. Dr. Adrian Langer
University of Warsaw
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022
June 2023 – September 2023
Geometric structures on algebraic varieties
Prof. Dr. med. Karl-Heinz Leven
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Medicine
Senior Fellow (Guest Researcher)
October 2022 – March 2023
Collaboration. Protest. Memory Culture. The Freiburg Pathologist Franz Büchner (1895-1991) during the Nazi-era.
Dr. Debabrata Maiti
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
June – August 2023
Design of Chiral Templates for Enantioselective Distal C-H Functionalizations.
Dr. Nibedita Nandi
University of Freiburg
Chemical Biology
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – September 2023
Identifying the Best: Microcystin based Selective Modulators of Protein Phosphatase-1 Activity
Prof. Dr. Anssi Peräkylä
University of Helsinki
Sociology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – July 2023
Facing Narcissism: Grandiosity and vulnerability of the self in the social world
Dr. Margherita Picchi
University of Cape Town
Theology
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
April 2022 – September 2023
Khutba activism in South Africa: A history of the Claremont Main Road Mosque’s community tafsir in late Apartheid and post-Apartheid period
Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol
University of Würzburg and University of Calgary
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – December 2022
Canadian-German comparative perspectives on urban-rural food initiatives and alternative food networks
Prof. Dr. Erik Schleef
University of Salzburg
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – June 2023
Measuring language attitudes: New methods, new challenges
Dr. Zainab Musa Shallangwa
University of Maiduguri
Cultural Studies
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – September 2023
Same People, Shifting Places: Cultural Memory and Identity Reconstruction in Monguno Resettled Community, Borno State, Nigeria
Dr. Rita Sousa Silva
Leiden University
Urban Ecology and Urban Forestry
YAS Fellow
October 2021 – September 2023
Growing a sustainable future – increasing the adaptation and resilience of socio-ecological systems through green infrastructure
Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz
University of Bern
Medieval German Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2023 – July 2023
The Poetics of the Visual. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Arab Optics
Prof. Julia S. Torrie
St. Thomas University
Contemporary European History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – April 2023
Frozen Food and Empire
Prof. Dr. Elena Vishlenkova
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
History
External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
October 2022 – September 2023
Research on the subject of Soviet health care with a focus on “The Family of Nations“: Biosocial Foundations of Nation-Building in the USSR“
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wogenstein
University of Connecticut
German Studies, Jewish Studies
External Senior Fellow (HRRC Fellow)
July 2021 – June 2023
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium / Human Rights as Paradigm: Shifts in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
Dr. Peter Zhang
University of Birmingham
Environmental Studies, Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – June 2023
Nano-enabled Strategies to Enhance Plant Tolerance to Climate Stress (NanoEnPlant)
Prof. Dr. Elmira Akhmetova
Institute of Knowledge Integration
History and Civilizational Studies
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
December 2021 – May 2023
Tatar Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in Imperial Russia
Dr. Maria Asplund
University of Freiburg
Bioelectronic Microtechnology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Derek Attridge
University of York
English and Related Literature
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – December 2021
The Challenge of Modernist Form: Innovative Style from Joyce to Coetzee
Prof. Dr. Pamela Ballinger
University of Michigan
History of Human Rights
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – December 2021
Materializing Empire: Infrastructures of Italian Fascism
Prof. Dr. Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă
University of Freiburg
Sociology / Global Studies
Rector’s Fellow
October 2021 – March 2022
De-Coloniality Now: Trajectories and Contestations
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Computer Science
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Patricia Faraldo Cabana
University of A Coruña
Criminal Law
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – March 2022
Automated (un)justice? Algorithmic governmentality in police investigation and criminal law
Prof. Dr. Jianshu Cao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Physics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
June 2022 – November 2022
Light-harvesting Energy Transfer in Natural and Artificial Systems
Dr. Jennifer Eaglin
The Ohio State University
History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
February 2022 – July 2022
The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry
Prof. Dr. Tero Erkkilä
University of Helsinki
Political science
External Senior Fellow
March 2022 – July 2022
Just Recovery from Covid-19 (JuRe)? Openness and Legal Oversight
Prof. Dr. Everlyn C. Ferstl
University of Freiburg
Cognitive Science and Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
Dr. Benjamin W. Goossen
Harvard University
History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
February 2022 – July 2022
The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness
Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
JunProf. Dr. Adriana Hanuliková
University of Freiburg
Psycho-/Neurolinguistics, Bi-/Multilingualism
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in language and cognition
Prof. Dr. Upendra Harbola
Indian Institute of Science
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May 2022 – August 2022
Manipulating molecular junctions using quantum light
Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim
University of Malaya
Applied Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2022 – May 2022
Internationalisation of Higher Education and English: Language Policies and Practices in universities in ASEAN
Dr. David Karlander
The University of Hong Kong
School of English
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Dreams of Unity: Language, Nation and Internationalism in the Swedish Workers’ Movement, 1900–1945.
Dr. John J. Kasianowicz
University of South Florida, Tampa
Biophysics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – July 2022
Identification of proteins using single nanometer-scale pores
Dr. med. Philipp Kellmeyer
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem
Purdue University
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – December 2021
Phosphatase-Dependent Regulation of CaMKII Kinase Activity in Heart Failure
Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Loyola University Chicago
History Department
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State in Mexico (1920-2020)
Dr. Sarah May
University of Freiburg
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Going Digital in the Woodworking Crafts
Prof. Lisa McGirr
Harvard University
History
External Senior Fellow
September 2021 – December 2021
Garrison Nation: The American Right, the Republican Party, and the Origins of Trumpism
Prof. Dr. Eyo O. Mensah
University of Calabar
Anthropological Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – November 2021
Husband is a priority: Gender roles, patriarchy and the naming of female children in Nigeria
Dr. Susana Minguet
University of Freiburg
Biology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nathans
University of Pennsylvania
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2022 – June 2022
Introduction, Commentary, and Scholarly Annotations to the first English translation of Simon Dubnow’s three-volume autobiography The Book of Life: Memoirs and Reflections. Materials for the History of My Time (1934-40)
Prof. Dr. Basile Ndjio
University Douala
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (MIASA)
September 2021 – December 2021
Behind closed doors: Chinese sex labour migration in Africa
Dr. Alexander Nyström
University of Freiburg
Biochemistry, biomedical science
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Dr. Margherita Picchi
University of Cape Town
Theology
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
April 2022 – September 2023
Khutba activism in South Africa: A history of the Claremont Main Road Mosque’s community tafsir in late Apartheid and post-Apartheid period
Dr. Vidhya Madapusi Ravi
University of Freiburg
Neuroscience/Neurooncology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
AutograFt Immune CompeteNt HumAn GLioblastoma ModEl (FINALE)
Prof. Dr. Gil Ribak
University of Arizona
Jewish Studies, History, and Ethnic Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – June 2022
“Crude Creatures”: The Representation of Black People in Yiddish Culture
Prof. Dr. Catherina Rigby
Bath Spa University
Environmental Humanities
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October – December 2021
Religion, Resilience and the Multispecies City
Prof. Dr. Colleen Robles
Duke University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May – July 2022
Stability of Hodge bundles
Dr. med. Christoph Schell
University of Freiburg
Pathology / Cell-matrix interactions / Fibrosis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling
University of Freiburg
Proteomcs
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Dr. Benjamin Schütze
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, International Relations
YAS Fellow
October 2021 – June 2022 Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 – September 2024
Dr. Rita Sousa Silva
Leiden University
Urban Ecology and Urban Forestry
YAS Fellow
October 2021 – September 2023
Growing a sustainable future – increasing the adaptation and resilience of socio-ecological systems through green infrastructure
Prof. Dr. John C. Swanson
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Department of History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January 2022 – June 2022
Superfluous Humanity: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album
Prof. Dr. Anelis Kaiser Trujillo
University of Freiburg
Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Sex/Gender in Computer-Based Neuroscience: The Role of Big Data
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Dr. Lianming Wang
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Global Art History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
March 2022 – August 2022
Transgressive Animals, Territorial Locality, and the Qing Global Histories
Dr. Roxana Willis
University of Oxford
Legal anthropology
External Junior Fellow
(Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – July 2022
Rethinking Freedom: Insights from Black Protest and Demands for Decolonisation
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wogenstein
University of Connecticut
German Studies, Jewish Studies
External Senior Fellow (HRRC Fellow)
July 2021 – June 2023
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium / Human Rights as Paradigm: Shifts in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
Prof. Dr. Michał Wrochna
Cergy Paris University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Non-elliptic spectral theory and emerging quantum geometries
Prof. Dr. Walter Zimmerli
Humboldt University Berlin
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
May 2022 – July 2022
Digitalization – also an Anti-kantian Experiment?
Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya
Drexel University
History
External Junior Fellow
March 2021 – July 2021
Balzan Project in Global History: Monsoon Landscapes. Law and Climate Science in the Indian Ocean World
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Computer Science
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Petra Dolata
University of Calgary
Energy History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2021 – April 2021
Women in Energy Transitions: Agency, Resilience and Complicity
Dr. med. Philipp Kellmeyer
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Dr. Enrique Martino
Complutense University of Madrid
History and Anthropology
External Junior Fellow
February 2021 – July 2021
Balzan Project in Global History: Money, Bridewealth and Contract Labor in a Spanish-African Colonial Economy
Dr. Friedemann Pestel
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Junior Fellow
November 2020 – August 2021
Global Players: Orchestral Tours and International Musical Life in the 20th Century
Dr. Gesine Pufal
University of Freiburg
Ecology and Biodiversity
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2020 – January 2021
Identifying causes for directionality of ecosystem functions under climate change: seed predation and dispersal in a slug – seed model system
Dr. Jesus Bohorquez
University of Lisbon
Global Economic History
External Junior Fellow
February 2021 – July 2021
Balzan Project in Global History: Slave trade and global capital. Comparative and global perspectives (1780-1850)
Dr. Leonardo Patimo
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Modular Representation Theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials
Dr. Martin Pfeiffer
University of Freiburg
German Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction
Dr. Philipp Nothaft
University of Freiburg
Medieval History, History of Science
External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – January 2021
Transformations of Medieval Astronomy, 1000–1250
Prof. Dietrich Earnhart
University of Kansas
Economics
External Senior Fellow
June 2021
Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis
Prof. Dr. Evi Zemanek
University of Freiburg
Media, Literary and Cultural Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
Oktober 2020 – July 2021
Ambivalent Ozone: Strategies of Resilience and Regeneration in Popular Media (1839–2019) – Towards a Cultural History of O3.
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Fünfgeld
University of Freiburg
Human Geography
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
From ‘sustainable’ to ‘resilient’? The reframing of urban policy and planning in the Anthropocene
Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
University of Freiburg
International Law
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt
University of Freiburg
History of Science
Internal Senior Fellow
Oktober 2020 – December 2020
Science, Technology and Society: Benefits of researching and reflecting upon current developments
Prof. Dr. Tanja Vogel
University of Freiburg
Life Sciences, Neurodevelopmental Epigenetics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Generating isogenic iPS-cell lines carrying different FOXG1 gene mutation for studying molecular causes of FOXG1-related syndrome
Prof. Dr. Walid Ahmad Saleh
University of Toronto
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2021 – August 2021
A History of Qur’anic Exegesis
Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Fired Up: The Unintended Consequences of Energy Resilience
Prof. Dr. Sabine Dabringhaus
University of Freiburg
East Asian History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Cities and the Challenge of Water in Modern China
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Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Computer Science
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Julie Casteigt
University Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2019
Dynamische Einheit bei Meister Eckhart und Albert dem Großen
Prof. Dr. Carsten Dormann
University of Freiburg
Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger
University of Oxford
German Literature
External Senior Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
University of Freiburg
Islamic and Middle East Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
The Iranian Revolution: A Global Intellectual History
Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen
University of Freiburg
Bioorganic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Long-Term O2 Release From Organic Endoperoxides To Sustain Cells Under Anoxia
Dr. med. Philipp Kellmeyer
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Ariane Macalinga Borlongan
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
English linguistics, Historical linguistics, Sociolinguistics
External Junior Fellow
February – April 2020
Proportions of American Variants in Philippine English across Time
Prof. Dr. Dieter Martin
University of Freiburg
Modern German Literature
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Christoph Martin Wieland’s material and immaterial legacy: Digital reconstruction and historical contextualization
Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Balázs J. Nemes
University of Freiburg
Medieval German Literature
Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
The theologia mystica as “Literature of Experts”. The experti and Their Works in the Reading and Compilation Practice of the Erfurt Carthusian frater N.
Dr. Gesine Pufal
University of Freiburg
Ecology and Biodiversity
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2020 – January 2021
Identifying causes for directionality of ecosystem functions under climate change: seed predation and dispersal in a slug – seed model system
Dr. Tuan Leng Tay
University of Freiburg
Biology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
CellSign − an interactive meta-analysis web tool for contextual classification of cellular phenotypes based on gene expression
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
University of Freiburg
International Law
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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Dr. Milena Bertolotti
University of Freiburg
Immunobiology
Junior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2017 – May 2019
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the BCR redox machinery
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Computer Science
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Isabelle Deflers
University of Freiburg
History
Junior Fellow
March – July 2018, October 2018 – February 2019
The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe
Dr. med. Philipp Kellmeyer
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
University of Freiburg
International Law
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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Dr. Anne Holzmüller
University of Freiburg
Musicology
Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Immersion as a Mode of Sacred Music Experience in the Late Eighteenth Century
Dr. Isabelle Deflers
University of Freiburg
History
Junior Fellow
March – July 2018, October 2018 – February 2019
The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe
Dr. Michael Rießler
University of Freiburg
General Linguistics
Junior Fellow
March 2017 – February 2018
Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi
Dr. Michael Staab
University of Freiburg
Ecology & Biodiversity
Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Is Tree phylogenetic Diversity affecting the Diversity of Arthropods and Microorganisms across Taxa and trophic Levels?
Dr. Milena Bertolotti
University of Freiburg
Immunobiology
Junior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2017 – May 2019
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the BCR redox machinery
Dr. Oliver Bräunling
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Algebraic K-theory and the mystery of special algebraic structures in characteristic p>0
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
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