FRIAS Fellows 2013/14 – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Dr. Alexander Alexandrov

University of Freiburg
Mathematical Physics

Junior Fellow
January 2014 – October 2014

Matrix models, tau-functions and W-operators

Prof. Dr. Robert Alicki

University of Gdańsk
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

External Senior Fellow
June 2014 – August 2014

Quantum nonequilibrium processes in molecular systems

Prof. Dr. Guilherme Assis de Almeida

University of São Paulo
Philosophy of Law

External Senior Fellow
January 2014 – February 2014

Genealogy of Subject of Law in the International Law of Human Rights

Prof. Dr. Klaus Baumann

University of Freiburg
Caritas Science

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2012 – March 2014

The support of psychosocial and spiritual needs and resources in medicine: To the benefit of chronic patients, their relatives and their medical carers

Dr. Dorothee Birke

University of Freiburg
English Literature

Junior Fellow
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
April 2008 – October 2014

Representations of Reading in the English Novel from the 18th to the 21st Centuries

Prof. Dr. Jérémy Blanc

University of Basel
Algebraic Geometry

External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015

Artithmetics, Dynamics and Geometry of Special Varieties

Dr. Katharina Boehm

University of Regensburg
English Literature

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

Tangible Pasts: Literature, the Material Histories of Antiquarianism and the Global Imagination, 1720-1820

Prof. Dr. Arndt Büssing

Witten/Herdecke University
Quality of Life, Spiritualty and Coping

External Senior Fellow
October 2012 – March 2014

The support of psychosocial and spiritual needs and resources in medicine: To the benefit of chronic patients, their relatives and their medical carers

Prof. Dr. Neil Cartlidge

Durham University
English Studies/Medieval Studies

External Senior Fellow
January 2014 – July 2014

Confrontations in Medieval Culture: Figures of Opposition, 1000–1600.

Prof. Dr. David F. Coker

Boston University
Theoretical Chemical Physics

External Senior Fellow
May – July 2014

Development of partial linearized density matrix (PLDM) propagation methods for nuclear and electronic dynamics using a one electron spin orbital representation and the fermion cartesian mapping hamiltonian.

Prof. Dr. Jörn Dengjel

University of Freiburg
Biochemistry, Dermatology, Proteomics

Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS Research Foci)
October 2015 – July 2016
FRIAS School of Life Sciences
December 2008 – November 2013

1.) Analysis of autophagosome Golgi/ER crosstalk (2015-2016)
2.) Spatio-temporal protein dynamics during autophagy (2008-2013)

Dr. Verónica I. Dumit

Center for Biological Systems Analysis Freiburg Proteomics

Junior Fellow
November 2013 – July 2014

Involvement of MCM helicase proteins in skin aging and fibrotic disorders

Dr. Miriam Erlacher

University Hospital of Freiburg
Pediatric hematology and oncology/Pediatric immunology/Stem cell biology/Apoptosis signaling

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

Characterization of survival signals essentially required for maintenance of human hematopoiesis

Dr. David Espinet

University of Freiburg
Philosophy

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014
April 2016 – September 2017

Always Happier? Approaching the Easterlin-Paradox From a Kantian Point of View

Prof. Dr. med. Thomas J. Feuerstein

University Hospital Freiburg
Neuropharmacology

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

Transporter-mediated GABA release as endogenous anti-seizure defense mechanism.

Prof. Dr. Günter Figal

University of Freiburg
Philosophy

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October 2009 – March 2010

Inconspicuousness.

Prof. Dr. Werner Frick

University of Freiburg
German Studies

Rector’s Fellow
April 2017 – September 2017
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October 2010 – October 2013
November 2007 – September 2010

„Weiß ich nur, wer ich bin“: Lyrik und Selbst-Repräsentation von der Renaissance bis zur Postmoderne (2010-2013)

Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel

University of Bonn
Philosophy

External Senior Fellow
December 2013 – March 2014

New Realism as a Critique of the Event?

Prof. Dr. Carlo Gasbarri

University of Strasbourg
Mathematics

External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015

Rational Points, Rational Curves and Automorphisms of Special Varieties

Prof. Dr. Kristen R. Ghodsee

University of Pennsylvania
Anthropology/Gender Studies/East European Studies

External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
August 2014 – July 2015

Women in Red: Communist Mass Women’s Organizations and International Feminism during the Cold War

Prof. Dr. Hermann Grabert

University of Freiburg
Theoretical Physics

FRIAS Director Natural and Life Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering
October 2013 – October 2015
Internal Senior Fellow (FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research)
November 2007 – September 2013

Quantum effects in complex systems

Prof. Dr. Joachim Grage

University of Freiburg
Scandinavian Studies

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October 2011 – September 2012

Building the North with words. Geographies of scientific knowledge in European philologies 1850–1950 (2013-2015)

Dr. Henning Hufnagel

University of Freiburg
Romance Philology (French, Italian)

FRIAS School of Language & Literature
May 2011 – April 2014
Junior Fellow
May 2011 – October 2014

1. Wissen und Diskurshoheit: Gattungskonkurrenzen zwischen Lyrik und Narrativik 1850-1900
2. L’écrivain et la chose publique. Interferenzen von ideologischem und literarischem Diskurs bei Céline, Drieu La Rochelle, Montherlant und Malaparte

Prof. Dr. Niels Christian Hvidt

University of Southern Denmark
Theology, Health Sciences

External Senior Fellow
October 2012 – March 2014

The support of psychosocial and spiritual needs and resources in medicine – To the benefit of chronic patients, their relatives and their medical carers

Dr. Peter Itzen

University of Freiburg
Social, Economic and Environmental History

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014
October 2015 – September 2016

Soldiers out of control: An entangled history of accidents in the French and German military, 1920-1970.

PD Dr. Lenka Jiroušková

University of Freiburg
Latin Philology

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

The Legend of the Ten Thousand Martyrs in Text and Image: A Study of its Reception in the German-Czech Late Medieval Cultural Milieu

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joas

Humboldt University of Berlin
Sociology

Distinguished Fellow
January 2021 – December 2023
Permanent Fellow (University of Freiburg)
April 2013 – March 2014
FRIAS School of History
April 2011 – March 2014

1.) A Global Genealogy of Moral Universalism (2021-2023)
2.) “Sacralization and Secularization” (2011-2014)

Dr. Albert Joosse

University of Freiburg
Ancient Philosophy

Junior Fellow
September 2013 – July 2014

How to Teach Philosophy: The Ancient Reception of the Platonic Alcibiades

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser

University of Freiburg
Law

Internal Senior Fellow
September 2012 – August 2014
FRIAS School of History
October 2012 – August 2013

Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des römischen Rechts im frühen Mittelalter., Teil 1: Spätantike Grundlagen und die Entwicklung in Italien bis zur Mitte des elften Jahrhunderts.

Prof. Dr. David Leitner

University of Nevada
Theoretical Chemical Physics and Biophysical Chemistry

External Senior Fellow
May 2014 – August 2014

Energy flow and signaling in proteins

Dr. Mei Li

University of Strasbourg
Cellular and Molecular Biology

External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – October 2015

In vivo visualizing the dynamics of cytokine-targeting cells.

Dr. Karen Lienkamp

University of Freiburg
Chemistry

Junior Fellow
FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research
December 2010 – October 2014

Micro- and Nanostructured Materials – Combining Shape, Size and Chemical Functionalit

Prof. Dr. Oliver Lubrich

University of Bern
German and Comparative Literature

External Senior Fellow
May 2014 – July 2014

The Researchers’ Affects: Travel Writing, Ethnography, Primatology.

Dr. Linda Maeding

University of Barcelona
German Literature

Junior Fellow
January – April 2014

1. Postcoloniality and Exile. German Literature and Cultural Difference in the Americas;
2. Hannah Arendt’s Correspondance with Gershom Scholem: Politics in exile

Prof. Dr. John Magee

University of Toronto
Classical Philology, Medieval Studies

External Senior Fellow
September 2013 – July 2014

Calcidius, In Platonis Timaeum commentarius und Boethius, In Aristotelis Peri Hermeneias librum commentarii editio prima

Prof. Dr. James McKernan

University of California
Mathematics/Algebraic Geometry

External Senior Fellow
July 2014 – August 2014

The birational classification of algebraic varieties.

Prof. Dr. Heike Mildenberger

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

Few Near-Coherence Classes of Ultrafilter.

PD Dr. Florian Mintert

University of Freiburg
Theoretical Physics

Junior Fellow
August 2010 – December 2015
FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research
September 2010 – April 2011

Coherent many-body quantum dynamics

Dr. Thomas Mohnike

University of Strasbourg
Scandinavian Studies

External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – October 2015

Building the North with words. Geographies of scientific knowledge in European philologies 1850–1950

Prof. Dr. Robert Murphy

Carnegie Mellon University
Computational Biology

External Senior Fellow (BMBF “e:Bio” Grant)
October 2018
FRIAS School of Life Sciences
October 2013 – March 2016
November 2010 – October 2013
June 2008 – July 2010

Automated interpretation of fluorescence microscope images

Prof. Dr. John Nerbonne

University of Groningen
Humanities Computing

External Senior Fellow
August 2013 – January 2014
August 2014 – October 2015
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
September 2012 – February 2013

Variation and Frequency

Prof. Dr. Nigel F. Palmer

University of Oxford
Medieval German Language and Literature

External Senior Fellow
April 2014 – July 2014
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
July 2010 – December 2010

The Dominican Discourse on Love in Selected Manuscripts from Schönensteinbach Nunnery (2014)

Prof. Dr. Diana Panke

University of Freiburg
Multi-Level Governance

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

Voting Alignment in Multilateral Negotiations: Why Small States Change Their Voting Behavior.

Dr. Francesco Rao

University of Strasbourg
Biophysics

Junior Fellow
FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research
May 2010 – October 2014

Prof. Dr. Ralf Reski

University of Freiburg
Biology

Internal Senior Fellow
Ocober 2013 – September 2015
FRIAS School of Life Sciences
October 2011 – September 2013

METABEVO: Evolution of the plant phenolic metabolism: a search for new strategies to improve biofuel production (2013-2015)

Prof. Dr. John Sallis

Boston College
Philosophy

External Senior Fellow
March 2014 – July 2014

Senses of Landscape.

Prof. Dr. Fernando Sarango Macas

Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas “Amawtay Wasi”
Intercultural Research

External Senior Fellow
June 2014 – July 2014

“Knowledge and Universities in an Intercultural Context” – Academic Concepts in the Andes and in Breisgau.

Dr. Stefan Schiller

University of Freiburg
Bionic Chemistry

Junior Fellow
October 2015 – September 2017
FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research
August 2008 – July 2014

Bio-based nano-mechano responsive films: A new step towards soft-mechano-chemistry (2015-2017)

PD Dr. Stephan Seiler

University of Freiburg
Fungal Cell Biology

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2016

The chemotropic compass of fungi: understanding pulsatile MAK2 MAP kinase signaling in Neurospora.

Dr. Tatjana Schneckenburger

University of Freiburg
Soil chemistry and ecology

Junior Fellow
September 2013 – July 2014

Can we determine soil erodibility by intra-aggregate-carbon release patterns?

Dr. Stefan Seeber

University of Freiburg
Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

Junior Fellow
October 2013 – July 2014

1.) Towards a Poetics of the Novel. The German Novel and its Implied Reception between 1300 and 1624 in its European Context
2.) The Dominican Discourse on Love in Selected Manuscripts from Schönensteinbach Nunnery (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Nigel F. Palmer, Oxford, and Dr. Stephen Mossman, Manchester)