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.
University of Nigeria
Law
External Senior Fellow
October 2024 – April 2025
Sustainable Governance of Natural Resources as a Pathway to Conflict Management
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
Cardiff University
History, Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow
(FRESCO Programm)
Januar 2024 – Juni 2025
Espionage in the Middle Ages
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”
Loyola University Maryland
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Knowledge and Wisdom in Zen Buddhism
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
University of Freiburg
Philosophy, Ethics
Fellow of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2024 – September 2027
Digital Anthropocene: AI and Sustainability
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
KU Leuven
Philosophy
Early Career Fellow
October 2024 – July 2025
A Kantian Epistemic Approach to Climate Change Debates
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
University of Freiburg
Aquatic Ecology
Early Career Fellow
October 2024 – July 2025
Lake dead zones: global drivers and sensitivity to climate change
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
University of Cambridge
History
External Junior Fellow
September 2024 – June 2025
Superintending Conquest: United States Expansion along the Indian Boundary Line
Pennsylvania State University
Materials Science and Engineering
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
December 2023 – December 2025
Novel Electrodes for Energy Conversion
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
The University of Michigan
Immunology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Inflammation and Metabolism in Host-Microbial Interactions
University of Alberta
African Studies, Literature and Cinema
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy
Georgetown University
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Language and Hermeneutics in the Islamic Sciences
University of Freiburg
History
Distinguished Fellow
March 2019 – December 2025
Balzan Project in Global History: Global Processes and the Dynamics of Regions
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: Post-war Periods. Plurality – Temporality – Re/Constructions
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
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
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
La Trobe University
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Well-adapted sustainability; sustainable adaptation
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
University Freiburg
Physics
External Senior Fellow
September 2024 – April 2025
Attosecond correlation spectroscopy and coherent control of molecular dissociation
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.
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
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)
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
University of Freiburg
Byzantine Archaeology
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
The University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
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
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
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
University of Freiburg
Art History
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
FRIAS Project Group: GlassAge. A Transparent View of Ancient Innovation
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
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
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
University of Freiburg
Immunology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 – July 2024
Deciphering the cellular reservoir of CMV latency
Stockholm University
Historical Geography
External Senior Fellow
October 2023 – December 2023
Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for famines in early modern Europe
Loyola University Maryland
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Knowledge and Wisdom in Zen Buddhism
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
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
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
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
Adam Mickiewicz University
Linguistics
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2024 – May 2024
Behavioral correlates of gender stereotype processing in bilingualism
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)
Law
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
November 2022 – March 2024
Old Age, Severe Illness, and the Equal Impact of Punishment in Europe
University of Oslo
Narratology, History
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 – August 2024
Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative
University of Freiburg
English Language and Linguistics
Rector’s Fellow
April 2024 – July 2024
The Spread of World Languages
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
University of Oxford
German Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow
July 2024 – August 2024
Internationalisation and Cooperation. Taking the Oxford – Freiburg connection further
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)
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
Pennsylvania State University
Materials Science and Engineering
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
December 2023 – December 2025
Novel Electrodes for Energy Conversion
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
The University of Michigan
Immunology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Inflammation and Metabolism in Host-Microbial Interactions
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
University of Alberta
African Studies, Literature and Cinema
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 – December 2025
Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy
Georgetown University
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Language and Hermeneutics in the Islamic Sciences
University of Freiburg
History
Distinguished Fellow
March 2019 – December 2025
Balzan Project in Global History: Global Processes and the Dynamics of Regions
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
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
La Trobe University
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 – December 2025
Well-adapted sustainability; sustainable adaptation
University of Basel
German Literature
External Junior Fellow
April 2024 – September 2024
Columbus. A history of literature about the other and the self.
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
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)
The University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 – December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
University of Freiburg
North American Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 – July 2024
Gentrification Imaginaries: Postindustrial Literature, Leisure, and Urban Transformations
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
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
University of Virginia
Law
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2024 – August 2024
Understanding Constitutional Failure
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
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)
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
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
Bound by difference. Interethnic economies at the Russian Empire’s southern periphery
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
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
The distribution of zero marking in inflectional morphology: A typological corpus study
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
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
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
University of Warsaw
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022
June 2023 – September 2023
Geometric structures on algebraic varieties
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.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
June – August 2023
Design of Chiral Templates for Enantioselective Distal C-H Functionalizations.
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
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
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
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
University of Salzburg
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – June 2023
Measuring language attitudes: New methods, new challenges
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
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
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
St. Thomas University
Contemporary European History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – April 2023
Frozen Food and Empire
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“
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)
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
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)
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
University of Freiburg
Bioelectronic Microtechnology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
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
University of Michigan
History of Human Rights
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – December 2021
Materializing Empire: Infrastructures of Italian Fascism
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
University of Freiburg
Sociology / Global Studies
Rector’s Fellow
October 2021 – March 2022
De-Coloniality Now: Trajectories and Contestations
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
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
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
The Ohio State University
History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
February 2022 – July 2022
The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry
University of Helsinki
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
March 2022 – July 2022
Just Recovery from Covid-19 (JuRe)? Openness and Legal Oversight
University of Freiburg
Cognitive Science and Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
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
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
University of Freiburg
Psycho-/Neurolinguistics, Bi-/Multilingualism
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in language and cognition
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
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
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.
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
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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
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)
University of Freiburg
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Going Digital in the Woodworking Crafts
Harvard University
History
External Senior Fellow
September 2021 – December 2021
Garrison Nation: The American Right, the Republican Party, and the Origins of Trumpism
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
University of Freiburg
Biology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
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)
University Douala
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (MIASA)
September 2021 – December 2021
Behind closed doors: Chinese sex labour migration in Africa
University of Freiburg
Biochemistry, Biomedical Science
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
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
University of Freiburg
Neuroscience/Neurooncology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
AutograFt Immune CompeteNt HumAn GLioblastoma ModEl (FINALE)
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
Bath Spa University
Environmental Humanities
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October – December 2021
Religion, Resilience and the Multispecies City
Duke University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May – July 2022
Stability of Hodge bundles
University of Freiburg
Pathology / Cell-matrix interactions / Fibrosis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
University of Freiburg
Proteomcs
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
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
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
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
University of Freiburg
Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Sex/Gender in Computer-Based Neuroscience: The Role of Big Data
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)
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
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
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
Cergy Paris University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Non-elliptic spectral theory and emerging quantum geometries
Humboldt University Berlin
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
May 2022 – July 2022
Digitalization – also an Anti-kantian Experiment?
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Fired Up: The Unintended Consequences of Energy Resilience
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
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
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)
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
University of Freiburg
East Asian History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Cities and the Challenge of Water in Modern China
University of Calgary
Energy History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2021 – April 2021
Women in Energy Transitions: Agency, Resilience and Complicity
University of Kansas
Economics
External Senior Fellow
June 2021
Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis
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
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
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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)
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
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2020 – January 2021
Molecular Robotics to Actuate Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Functions
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
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
University of Freiburg
Medieval History, History of Science
External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – January 2021
Transformations of Medieval Astronomy, 1000–1250
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Modular Representation Theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials
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
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Junior Fellow
November 2020 – August 2021
Global Players: Orchestral Tours and International Musical Life in the 20th Century
University of Freiburg
German Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction
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
University of Toronto
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2021 – August 2021
A History of Qur’anic Exegesis
Imperial College London
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – December 2021
p-adic methods in the Brauer–Manin obstruction
University of Freiburg
Latin
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
What Was Fiction? Concepts and Practices of Fictional Narrative in Classical Antiquity
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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
Seoul National University
History
External Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Capitalist Civilization in the United States: Whence and Whither
University of Freiburg
Environmental Economics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
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
University Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2019
Dynamische Einheit bei Meister Eckhart und Albert dem Großen
University of Freiburg
Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
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
University of Oxford
German Literature
External Senior Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks
University of Freiburg
English literature and Narratology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Diachronic Narratology
University of Freiburg
Islamic and Middle East Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
The Iranian Revolution: A Global Intellectual History
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
University of Freiburg
Bioorganic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Long-Term O2 Release From Organic Endoperoxides To Sustain Cells Under Anoxia
Brooklyn College, New York
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – May 2020
Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
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
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2020 – January 2021
Molecular Robotics to Actuate Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Functions
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
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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.
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
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
Aix-Marseille University, France
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September – December 2019
On hyperbolicity in complex geometry
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’
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
University of Freiburg
Hydrology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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.
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
The Quantum Vacuum and Biology.
University of Freiburg
Immunobiology
Junior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2017 – May 2019
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the BCR redox machinery.
University of Strasbourg
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
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)
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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
University of Freiburg
History
Junior Fellow
March – July 2018, October 2018 – February 2019
The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe
Wake Forest University
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
September 2018 – July 2019
Mechanistic and structural investigation of nitrogen fixation proteins
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2017 – May 2019
Bosonic mixtures on a lattice: (in-)distinguishability and interactions
University of Freiburg
Mathematical Stochastics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
University of Strasbourg
Financial Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
University of the Philippines
Economics
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2018 – August 2019
Regulatory Quality, Institutions and Cross-Border Bribery
University of Seville
Quantum Physics
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2018 – February 2019
Geometric and Topological Resources for Spin Control
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
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Stochastic shape analysis and stochastic geometric mechanics
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
University of Freiburg
German Literature
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Tracking. Research Expeditions as a Topic in Contemporary Literature
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
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
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
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.
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
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
University of Freiburg
Quantitative Finance
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Instabilität von Interbankenmärkten
University of Silesia
Byzantine Studies
External Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Byzantium and the popular imagination – stereotypes, simplifications and reappraisal
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Carnegie Mellon University
Computational Biology
External Senior Fellow
BMBF “e:Bio” Grant
October 2018
Automated interpretation of fluorescence microscope images
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)
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
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)
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Difference and Identity. The Dialogue between Schelling and Hegel
Tianjin University
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
March – June 2019
Triggered release of biologically active small molecules
University of Freiburg
Physics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2018 – July 2019
Coherent Spectroscopy of Elementary Steps for Light Harvesting
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)
University of Michigan
Film and Media Studies
External Senior Fellow
September 2018 – July 2019
Critical Theory in “Postcritical” Times
University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019
The (b)link between reward anticipation and depression.
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
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
University of Strasbourg
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
Tel Aviv University
Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow
June – August 2018
Soergel’s conjecture and Langlands’ correspondence for p-adic groups.
University of Freiburg
Immunobiology
Junior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2017 – May 2019
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the BCR redox machinery
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
April 2017 – December 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Algebraic K-theory and the mystery of special algebraic structures in characteristic p>0.
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.
International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin
Psychology
External Senior Fellow
January – February 2018
Conversation Analysis – an evaluative tool? Comparing pair dynamics before and after treatment.
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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.
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.
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.
Stony Brook University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017
May – July 2018
Support and symmetries for Hitchin fibrations.
University of Freiburg
History
Junior Fellow
March – July 2018
October 2018 – February 2019
The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe.
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.
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2017 – May 2019
Bosonic mixtures on a lattice: (in-)distinguishability and interactions.
University of Freiburg
Mathematical Stochastics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
University of Strasbourg
Financial Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019
Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications.
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.
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.
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.
University of Freiburg
Cultural Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – August 2018
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
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
University of Freiburg
Musicology
Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Immersion as a Mode of Sacred Music Experience in the Late Eighteenth Century
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Cohomological Methods in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
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.
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.
University of Freiburg
Complex and Algebraic Geometry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2018
Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory.
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
University Hospital Freiburg
Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Research Focus: Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018
Investigating the corticospinal system in humans
University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018
Knowing the Normative World.
University of Alabama
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development.
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?
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.
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.
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.
University of Freiburg
Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019
The (b)link between reward anticipation and depression.
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.
University of Freiburg
General Linguistics
Junior Fellow
March 2017 – February 2018
Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi
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)
University Hospital Freiburg
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Interdisciplinary Research Group
October 2011 – July 2012
Synchronization in Embodied Interaction.
Dickinson College Carlisle
English Literature
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018
Interest in the Long Eighteenth Century.
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.
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory.
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
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?
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.).
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).
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.
ETH / University of Zurich
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2017
January – April 2018
Cohomology in algebraic geometry and representation theory
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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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.
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
April 2017 – December 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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.
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.
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.
University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018
Investigating the corticospinal system in humans
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.
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
Texts in Multiple Voices: Digital Genetic Edition of Nietzsche’s Lectures on Rhetoric.
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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
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 Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
We are in the process of migrating Fellow profiles from the previous FRIAS website. In the meantime, please use the following links to access information about former Fellows.
We are in the process of migrating Fellow profiles from the previous FRIAS website. In the meantime, please use the following links to access information about former Fellows.