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 2019/20 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
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
Early Career 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
Byzantine 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. Dr. Massimo Leone
University of Turin
Philosophy of Communication
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2020 – February 2021
April 2024 – August 2024
Transhuman Portraits: Artificial Faces in Art, Science, and Society (2020-2021)
Envisaging the City: An Interdisciplinary Study of Digital Urban ‘Facescapes’ (2023-2024)
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?
Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Fired Up: The Unintended Consequences of Energy Resilience
Dr. Jörg Arnold
The University of Nottingham, UK
History
External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – September 2021
From Loser to Winner – and back again: the British miner in the age of the de-industrial revolution, ca. 1967 to 1997
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
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)
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. Sabine Dabringhaus
University of Freiburg
East Asian History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Cities and the Challenge of Water in Modern China
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
Prof. Dietrich Earnhart
University of Kansas
Economics
External Senior Fellow
June 2021
Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis
Dr. John Eicher
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
History
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2020 – August 2021
The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: Influenza, War, and Religion, 1918-1920
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
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. Dr. Massimo Leone
University of Turin
Philosophy of Communication
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2020 – February 2021
April 2024 – August 2024
Transhuman Portraits: Artificial Faces in Art, Science, and Society (2020-2021)
Envisaging the City: An Interdisciplinary Study of Digital Urban ‘Facescapes’ (2023-2024)
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
Dr. Indrajit Maity
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2020 – January 2021
Molecular Robotics to Actuate Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Functions
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
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. Philipp Nothaft
University of Freiburg
Medieval History, History of Science
External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – January 2021
Transformations of Medieval Astronomy, 1000–1250
Dr. Leonardo Patimo
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Modular Representation Theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials
Prof. Dr. Uri Peskin
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2020 – February 2021
Field-induced Mechanical Stabilization of Molecular Electronic Devices
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. Martin Pfeiffer
University of Freiburg
German Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction
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
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. Alexei Skorobogatov
Imperial College London
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – December 2021
p-adic methods in the Brauer–Manin obstruction
Prof. Dr. Stefan Tilg
University of Freiburg
Latin
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
What Was Fiction? Concepts and Practices of Fictional Narrative in Classical Antiquity
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. 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. 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. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono
Gadjah Mada University
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
Oktober 2020 – August 2021
Tragedy of the private. A historical ethnographic account of an Indonesian plantation, 1870s-2000s.
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.
Dr. Ridvan Askin
University of Basel
Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
Juni 2019 – October 2019
Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism
Prof. Dr. Youngsoo Bae
Seoul National University
History
External Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Capitalist Civilization in the United States: Whence and Whither
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner
University of Freiburg
Environmental Economics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
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. Alison M. Downham Moore
Western Sydney University, Australia
History of Medicine
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – April 2020
Sexual Ageing in the History of Medicine, 1774-2020
Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger
University of Oxford
German Literature
External Senior Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks
Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
University of Freiburg
English literature and Narratology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Diachronic Narratology
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
Dr. Joseph Harris
University of London
French and Comparative Literature
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
The Misanthrope’s Progress: Hating Humanity in the Age of Reason
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
Prof. Dr. Janet Elise Johnson
Brooklyn College, New York
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – May 2020
Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Prof. Dr. Yuri Kabanov
University of Franche-Comté, France
Mathematics / Mathematical Finance
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
October 2019 – January 2020
Actuarial models in financial environment
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
Dr. Indrajit Maity
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2020 – January 2021
Molecular Robotics to Actuate Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Functions
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. Noa Roei
University of Amsterdam
Visual Culture
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
Sensing Vision: Performative Encounters with the Politics of Spectatorship in Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Prof. Dr. Erwan Rousseau
Aix-Marseille University, France
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September – December 2019
On hyperbolicity in complex geometry
Prof. Dr. Francesca Saggini
Tuscia University, Italy
English Literature
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
March 2020 – June 2020
The Stage That Was Not: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal of Frances Burney’s ‘Edwy and Elgiva’
Dr. Viacheslav Slesarenko
Cluster of Excellence livMatS, University of Freiburg
Solid State Mechanics
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
Instability-driven local pattern transformations for reconfigurable hierarchical mechanical metamaterials
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stahl
University of Freiburg
Hydrology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
Dr. Adam Szymanski
McGill University Montreal, Canada
Film Studies
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
The Production of Subjectivity in Psychotherapeutic Uses of Film
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. Katharina von Hammerstein
University of Connecticut, USA
German Studies
External Senior Fellow
Human Rights Research Consortium Connecticut & Baden-Württemberg
May – June 2020
Textual Representations of the German-Ovaherero Colonial War and Ovaherero Genocide 1904-1908 in the Former Colony of German Southwest Africa, today’s Namibia | Developing the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium
Prof. Dr. Sitta von Reden
University of Freiburg
Ancient History
Rector’s Fellow
April – June 2020
Beyond the Silk Road: Economic Development, Exchange and Interimperiality in the Afro-Eurasian World (300 BCE to 300 CE)
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
Dr. Ridvan Askin
University of Basel
Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
Juni 2019 – October 2019
Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism.
Dr. Robert Bennett
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
The Quantum Vacuum and Biology.
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. Jean Bérard
University of Strasbourg
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Dr. Anne-Laure Briatte
Sorbonne University
German History
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2018 – August 2019
The damages of military occupation through the lens of gender. The lives of mothers of “children of the occupation” in the French Zone of Occupation (1945-1955)
Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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
Prof. Dr. Patricia C. Dos Santos
Wake Forest University
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
September 2018 – July 2019
Mechanistic and structural investigation of nitrogen fixation proteins
Dr. Gabriel Dufour
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2017 – May 2019
Bosonic mixtures on a lattice: (in-)distinguishability and interactions
Prof. Dr. Ernst Eberlein
University of Freiburg
Mathematical Stochastics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Prof. Dr. Karl-Theodor Eisele
University of Strasbourg
Financial Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Dr. Laarni Escresa Guillermo
University of the Philippines
Economics
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2018 – August 2019
Regulatory Quality, Institutions and Cross-Border Bribery
Prof. Dr. Diego Frustaglia
University of Seville
Quantum Physics
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2018 – February 2019
Geometric and Topological Resources for Spin Control
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Giuseppone
University of Strasbourg
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Joint Fellowship Freiburg/Strasbourg)
October 2017 – September 2019
Implementation of Light-Powered Nanomachines into Polymer Bulk: From Fundamentals of Active Matter to Functional, Life-Inspired Polymer Materials
JunProf. Dr. Philipp Harms
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Stochastic shape analysis and stochastic geometric mechanics
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang R. Hess
University of Freiburg
Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
MapRNA: Mapping RNA-RNA pairings in vivo in bacteria and their importance in fast acclimation processes
Prof. Dr. Michaela Holdenried
University of Freiburg
German Literature
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Tracking. Research Expeditions as a Topic in Contemporary Literature
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. Bebwa Isingoma
Gulu University, Uganda
English Linguistics
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
October 2018 – September 2019
Implicit Arguments in Ugandan Bantu Languages and British English: An Input for Syntactic Indexicality in Ugandan English
Prof. Dr. Sandro Jung
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
English Literature
External Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Transnational Literary History, Eighteenth-Century Book Illustration, and the Genre of the robinsonade
Prof. Dr. Cecile King
The Garvan Institute for Medical Research/St. Vincent’s Clinical School, UNSW Medicine
Immunology
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September – January 2019
Interleukin-21 induced formation of STAT1 and STAT3 dimers.
Prof. Dr. Caprice Knapp
The Pennsylvania State University
Health Policy and Administration
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
May – August 2016
May – August 2017
August – October 2018
Investigating Maternal and Child Health in Urban Areas
Prof. Dr. Daniel Leese
University of Freiburg
Chinese History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Shadows of Maoism. Law and the Politics of History in the PR China
Prof. Dr. Eva Lütkebohmert-Holtz
University of Freiburg
Quantitative Finance
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Instabilität von Interbankenmärkten
Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Marciniak
University of Silesia
Byzantine Studies
External Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Byzantium and the popular imagination – stereotypes, simplifications and reappraisal
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. Robert Murphy
Carnegie Mellon University
Computational Biology
External Senior Fellow
BMBF “e:Bio” Grant
October 2018
Automated interpretation of fluorescence microscope images
Prof. Dr. Pascale Romby
University of Strasbourg
Molecular Biology
External Senior Fellow (Joint Fellowship Freiburg/Strasbourg)
October 2018 – September 2019
MapRNA: Mapping RNA-RNA pairings in vivo in bacteria and their importance in fast acclimation processes (stress responses, virulence)
Prof. Dr. Akbar Salam
Wake Forest University
Theoretical Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – May 2019
Development of Quantum Electrodynamical Theories of Resonance Energy Transfer
Prof. Dr. Apostolos Sarris
Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (F.O.R.T.H.)
Applied Geophysics
External Senior Fellow
January 2019 – June 2019
Settlement Patterns and Landscape Biographies of Neolithic Thessaly (BioNeT)
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schmidt
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications
JunProf. Dr. Philipp Schwab
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Difference and Identity. The Dialogue between Schelling and Hegel
Prof. Dr. Jay S. Siegel
Tianjin University
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
March – June 2019
Triggered release of biologically active small molecules
Prof. Dr. Frank Stienkemeier
University of Freiburg
Physics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Coherent Spectroscopy of Elementary Steps for Light Harvesting
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. Johannes von Moltke
University of Michigan
Film and Media Studies
External Senior Fellow
September 2018 – July 2019
Critical Theory in “Postcritical” Times
Dr. Fritz Renner
University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019
The (b)link between reward anticipation and depression.
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. Andreas Walther
University of Freiburg
Macromolecular Chemistry and Systems
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Implementation of Light-Powered Nanomachines into Polymer Bulk: From Fundamentals of Active Matter to Functional, Life-Inspired Polymer Materials.
Dr. Jessica Werthmann
University of Freiburg
Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology
Junior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Challenge accepted – Disentangling the link between emotion regulation and body dissatisfaction
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Francisco Arenas-Dolz
University of Valencia
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
July – December 2015
January – December 2017
Texts in Multiple Voices: Digital Genetic Edition of Nietzsche’s Lectures on Rhetoric.
Prof. Dr. Lorena Bachmaier
Complutense University of Madrid
Law
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2017 – June 2018
International Security, Privacy and Criminal Investigation: a Human Rights Approach.
Dr. Yury Belyi
Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology
Microbiology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
March – Arpil 2018
Molecular mechanisms of alteration in eukaryotic membrane trafficking induced by Legionella pneumophila, vacuolar pathogen of phagocytic cells.
Prof. Dr. Jean Bérard
University of Strasbourg
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Prof. Dr. Joseph Bernstein
Tel Aviv University
Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow
June – August 2018
Soergel’s conjecture and Langlands’ correspondence for p-adic groups.
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. Bernhard Breit
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
April 2017 – December 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
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. Anna Buchheim
University of Innsbruck
Psychology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2017 – February 2018
The role of unresolved attachment trauma in the transgenerational context of mother-infant interaction and its clinical relevance for psychotherapy.
Prof. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz
International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin
Psychology
External Senior Fellow
January – February 2018
Conversation Analysis – an evaluative tool? Comparing pair dynamics before and after treatment.
Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
Prof. Dr. Kate Burridge
Monash University
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2017 – January 2018
From obelisks and asterisks to modern-day views about English language usage.
Dr. Lawrence Chua
Syracuse University
History of Architecture and Urban Development
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
January – August 2018
Bangkok Utopia: leisure architecture, urban culture, and public space in 20th century Thailand.
Dr. Majid Daneshgar
University of Otago
Religion and Islamic Studies
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018
Censorship in Malay Islamic and Exegetical Works.
Prof. Dr. Mark Andrea De Cataldo
Stony Brook University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017
May – July 2018
Support and symmetries for Hitchin fibrations.
Dr. Isabelle Deflers
University of Freiburg
History
Junior Fellow
March – July 2018
October 2018 – February 2019
The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe.
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Déglise
Institut Mathématique de Bourgogne
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2017 – March 2018
Homotopy t-structure and a Leray-type spectral sequence.
Dr. Gabriel Dufour
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2017 – May 2019
Bosonic mixtures on a lattice: (in-)distinguishability and interactions.
Prof. Dr. Ernst Eberlein
University of Freiburg
Mathematical Stochastics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Prof. Dr. Karl-Theodor Eisele
University of Strasbourg
Financial Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Prof. Dr. A. Ganesan
University of East Anglia
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – December 2017
Targeting Histone-Modifying Enzymes for Epigenetic Drug Discovery.
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Giuseppone
University of Strasbourg
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Joint Fellowship Freiburg/Strasbourg)
October 2017 – September 2019
Implementation of Light-Powered Nanomachines into Polymer Bulk: From Fundamentals of Active Matter to Functional, Life-Inspired Polymer Materials.
Prof. Dr. Anne Harrington
Harvard University
History of Science and Medicine
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
April – August 2018
Almost a Miracle: Narratives of Human Healing from the Medical Archive at Lourdes.
Prof. Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus
University of Freiburg
Cultural Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – August 2018
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang R. Hess
University of Freiburg
Genetics and Experimental Bioinformatics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
MapRNA: Mapping RNA-RNA pairings in vivo in bacteria and their importance in fast acclimation processes
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
Prof. Dr. Annette Huber-Klawitter
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Cohomological Methods in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
Dr. Ghada H. Ibrahim
Electronics Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
Electronics and Engineering
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2016 – August 2018
Development of RFID circuit building blocks using an organic TFT transistor technology.
Prof. Dr. Florian Ivorra
University of Rennes
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
February 2018 – July 2018
Motives, nearby cycles and their connections to non-archimedean geometry and birational geometry.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kebekus
University of Freiburg
Complex and Algebraic Geometry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2018
Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory.
Prof. Dr. Caprice Knapp
The Pennsylvania State University
Health Policy and Administration
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
May – August 2016
May – August 2017
August – October 2018
Investigating Maternal and Child Health in Urban Areas
Prof. Dr. med. Claas Lahmann
University Hospital Freiburg
Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Research Focus: Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
Prof. Dr. Christian Leukel
University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018
Investigating the corticospinal system in humans
Dr. Errol Lord
University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018
Knowing the Normative World.
Prof. Dr. Evie Malaia
University of Alabama
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Musolff
University of East Anglia
Intercultural Communication
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September – December 2017
How are national identities and emotional attachment to them expressed across different languages and cultures?
Prof. Dr. Murugappan Muthukumar
University of Massachusetts
Polymer Physics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017
December 2017
Sensing of single polymer molecules with nanopores: joining the forces of theory and experiment.
Prof. Dr. Johannes Nicaise
Imperial College London
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2017 – December 2017
April 2018
Non‐archimedean Morse theory, mirror symmetry and the minimal model program.
Prof. Dr. Jorge Vittoro Pereira
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
December 2017 – February 2018
Birational Geometry of Foliations.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder
University of Freiburg
Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
Dr. Fritz Renner
University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019
The (b)link between reward anticipation and depression.
Dr. Ian Riddlestone
University of Bath
Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
September 2016 – August 2018
Preparation of Stabilised and Free Silylium and Silicocenium Ions Featuring Known and Novel Weakly Coordinating Anions; Reagents for the Coordination and Activation of Small Molecules.
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
Prof. Dr. Pascale Romby
University of Strasbourg
Molecular Biology
External Senior Fellow (Joint Fellowship Freiburg/Strasbourg)
October 2018 – September 2019
MapRNA: Mapping RNA-RNA pairings in vivo in bacteria and their importance in fast acclimation processes (stress responses, virulence)
Prof. Dr. Carl Eduard Scheidt
University Hospital Freiburg
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Interdisciplinary Research Group
October 2011 – July 2012
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
Dr. Jacob Sider Jost
Dickinson College Carlisle
English Literature
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018
Interest in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Dr. Paolo Silvestri
University of Turin
Legal and Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Economics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
December 2017 – July 2018
September 2018 – October 2018
Anthropology of Taxation. Enquiry into the Human Foundations of Fiscal Democracy.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Soergel
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Spielberg
University of Freiburg
Catholic Theology – Pastoral Theology/ Practical Theology
Internal Junior Fellow
January 2015 – August 2018
Global Transformations of Catholicism: Strategies of Plurality – Role Models – Questions of God
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?
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Stamatopoulos
University of Macedonia
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2017 – August 2018
Orthodox Church and Civil Society in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Southeastern Europe (18th -20th c.).
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. Andreas Walther
University of Freiburg
Macromolecular Chemistry and Systems
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Implementation of Light-Powered Nanomachines into Polymer Bulk: From Fundamentals of Active Matter to Functional, Life-Inspired Polymer Materials.
Prof. Dr. Gisbert Wüstholz
ETH / University of Zurich
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2017
January – April 2018
Cohomology in algebraic geometry and representation theory
Prof. Dr. Onur Yildirim
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
History
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
The Sources of the Global Refugee Regime: Neuilly, Lausanne, and Potsdam in Historical Perspective.
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Francisco Arenas-Dolz
University of Valencia
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
July – December 2015
January – December 2017
Texts in Multiple Voices: Digital Genetic Edition of Nietzsche’s Lectures on Rhetoric.
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Breit
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
April 2017 – December 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
Prof. Dr. A. Ganesan
University of East Anglia
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – December 2017
Targeting Histone-Modifying Enzymes for Epigenetic Drug Discovery.
Dr. Ghada H. Ibrahim
Electronics Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
Electronics and Engineering
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2016 – August 2018
Development of RFID circuit building blocks using an organic TFT transistor technology.
Prof. Dr. Caprice Knapp
The Pennsylvania State University
Health Policy and Administration
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
May – August 2016
May – August 2017
August – October 2018
Investigating Maternal and Child Health in Urban Areas.
Prof. Dr. Christian Leukel
University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018
Investigating the corticospinal system in humans
Dr. Ian Riddlestone
University of Bath
Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
September 2016 – August 2018
Preparation of Stabilised and Free Silylium and Silicocenium Ions Featuring Known and Novel Weakly Coordinating Anions; Reagents for the Coordination and Activation of Small Molecules.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Spielberg
University of Freiburg
Catholic Theology – Pastoral Theology/ Practical Theology
Internal Junior Fellow
January 2015 – August 2018
Global Transformations of Catholicism: Strategies of Plurality – Role Models – Questions of God
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University of Valencia
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
July – December 2015
January – December 2017
Prof. Dr. Dr. Francisco Arenas-Dolz
Texts in Multiple Voices: Digital Genetic Edition of Nietzsche’s Lectures on Rhetoric.
Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
Prof. Dr. Caprice Knapp
The Pennsylvania State University
Health Policy and Administration
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
May – August 2016
May – August 2017
August – October 2018
Investigating Maternal and Child Health in Urban Areas
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Spielberg
University of Freiburg
Catholic Theology – Pastoral Theology/ Practical Theology
Internal Junior Fellow
January 2015 – August 2018
Global Transformations of Catholicism: Strategies of Plurality – Role Models – Questions of God
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Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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