FRIAS Fellows 2014/15
In the academic year 2014/15, 53 fellows came to FRIAS for research stays. They participated in various programmes, including the Freiburg Research Collaboration Programme (FRESCO), the FRIAS Fellowship Programme, and the Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme.
Dr. Alexander Alexandrov
University of Freiburg
Mathematical Physics
Junior Fellow
January 2014 – October 2014
Matrix models, tau-functions and W-operators
Dr. Joonwoo Bae
KAIST
Quantum Information Theory
Junior Fellow
September 2014 – August 2015
Resources for Quantum Information Protection
Prof. Dr. Stanislav Balouchev
Sofia University
Organic optoelectronics
External Senior Fellow
December 2014 – September 2015
Energy Transport in Dense Populated Organic Triplet Ensembles
Prof. Dr. Mark Beeson
University of Western Australia
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
June – July 2015
ASEAN and the rise of China
Prof. Dr. Jérémy Blanc
University of Basel
Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015
Artithmetics, Dynamics and Geometry of Special Varieties
Prof. Dr. Andreas Buchleitner
University of Freiburg
Theoretical Physics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
Designed quantum transport in complex materials
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
Dr. Brook Bolander
University of Zurich
English Linguistics
Junior Fellow
September 2014 – August 2015
Local constructions of a global community: English and Shia Ismaili Muslims in and beyond South and Central Asia
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. Frédéric Bruno Campana
University of Lorraine
Complex and Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow
April 2015 – May 2015
Special Orbifolds and the birational classification of algebraic varieties
Prof. Dr. Joseph J. Capuno
University of the Philippines
Economics
External Senior Fellow
January 2015 – July 2015
Political Competition, Fiscal Performance and Local Development in the Philippines.
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Cogdell
University of Glasgow
Photosynthesis
External Senior Fellow
April 2015
Structure and Function of Bacterial Photosynthetic Membrane Proteins.
Dr. Heike Drotbohm
University of Freiburg
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Junior Fellow
March 2015 – February 2016
Performances of eligibility in the context of migration industries in Brazil.
Dr. Julia Elsky
Loyola University Chicago
French Studies
Junior Fellow (VW-Mellon Fellow)
June 2015 – June 2016
French and Foreign: Émigré Writers in Occupied France.
Prof. Dr. Lars P. Feld
Walter Eucken Institut/University of Freiburg
Economic Policy
President’s Fellow
October 2014 – March 2015
“Eurodisziplin – eine Währungsordnung für Europa”
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. John Golbeck
Penn State University
Biochemistry
External Senior Fellow
May 2015 – June 2015
Single-Crystal ENDOR Studies of the Heliobacterial Reaction Center.
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)
Prof. Dr. Hal Hill
Australian National University
Southeast Asian Economies
External Senior Fellow
June – July 2015
Managing Globalization in a Dynamic Region: The Southeast Asian Experience
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo A. Jalabert
University of Strasbourg
Condensed Matter Physics
External Senior Fellow
January 2015 – July 2015
Coherence of charge transport in finite disordered systems.
Dr. Leon Karpa
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2014 – October 2016
Quantum transport of ions in optical lattices.
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.
Prof. Dr. Efrat Lifshitz
Israel Institute of Technology
Nano science and Nanotechnology
External Senior Fellow
July 2015
September 2015
New photovoltaic devices based on unique photostable coillodal quantum dots.
Prof. Dr. Yeshayahu Lifshitz
Israel Institute of Technology
Nanostructuring of materials
External Senior Fellow
June 2015 – September 2015
Horizontally grown ZnO NWs and their application for fabrication of sensor arrays
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. Shaul Mukamel
University of California
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
June – July 2015
October 2015
FRIAS School of Soft Matter Research
July 2011
November 2012
New Directions in Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Complexes and Proteins with Classical Optical Fields and Entangled Photons; Theoretical and Simulation Studies.
Prof. Dr. Conrad W. Mullineaux
University of London
Microbiology
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2014
In search of localised membrane protein assembly centres in bacteria.
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
Dr. Blaz Mramor
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Junior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
Minimizers of nonlinear elliptic PDEs on hyperbolic manifolds
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
Dr. Katja Rangsivek
University of Auckland
Southeast Asian Studies
Junior Fellow
September 2014 – August 2015
A Study of Social Class and Traditions: Thai Elite Funeral Rituals.
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)
Dr. Stefan Rother
University of Freiburg
Political Sciences
Junior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
Regional Democratisation from below? Alignments, Dealignments and Re-alignments in Southeast Asian Transnational Civil Society
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rüland
University of Freiburg
Political Science
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
FRIAS School of History
October 2010 – September 2011
Democratizing Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia. (2014-2015)
Constructing Regionalism Domestically: Local Actors and Foreign Policymaking in Indonesia (2010-2011)
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Pieter Samyn
University of Freiburg
Bio-based Materials Engineering
Junior Fellow
October 2014 – March 2016
Sustainable use of forest resources as nano-scale building blocks for functional biocomposites and coatings
Prof. Dr. Tobias Schaetz
University of Freiburg
Physics
Internal Senior Fellow
September 2014 – October 2015
Designed quantum transport in complex materials.
Prof. Dr. Judith Schlehe
University of Freiburg
Sociocultural Anthropology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
Negotiating Academic Cultures: International Cooperation in the Social Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Günther Schulze
University of Freiburg
Economics
FRIAS Director Social Sciences
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
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.
Prof. Dr. Spiros S. Skourtis
University of Cyprus
Biophysics and Chemical Physics
External Senior Fellow
September 2014 – August 2015
The control of electron and energy transfer pathways from the molecular to the cellular length scales: Exploring the roles of molecular structure and fluctuations, of the environment and of the initial state preparation.
Prof. Dr. Evanghelia Stead
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines (UVSQ)
Comparative Literature & Book Studies
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS-Programme)
October 2014 – July 2015
Faust I in Prints and Book Objects : Germany, England and France (1816-1925)
Dr. Agus Suwignyo
Gadjah Mada University
History
Junior Fellow
October 2014 – August 2015
Non-state welfare and citizenship institutions as elements of social alignment: A re-account of the transformation of gotong-royong, slametan and rapat warga in the Javanese society 1900 – 2000
Prof. Dr. Yasushi Suzuki
Aichi University, Faculty of Letters
German Studies
External Senior Fellow
April 2015 – March 2016
Die Aufforderungsausdrücke im Deutschen (Imperative expressions in German).
Dr. Dirk Tomsa
La Trobe University
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
March – August 2015
Electoral Engineering and Subnational Party System Institutionalization in Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Art van der Est
Brock University
Biophysical Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
April – August 2015
Designed quantum transport in complex materials
Prof. Dr. Gert-Jan van der Heiden
Radboud University
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow
January – March 2015
A Hermeneutics of Testimony.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber
University of Freiburg
Physical Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2014 – September 2015
Designed quantum transport in complex materials.
Dr. Danièle Werck-Reichhart
University of Strasbourg
Plant Biochemistry/Biology
External Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015
METABEVO
Evolution of the plant phenolic metabolism: a search for new strategies to improve biofuel production
Dr. Jianying Yang
Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics
Molecular Immunology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2013 – September 2015
In vivo visualizing the dynamics of cytokine-targeting cells
Dr. Elisabeth Zima
University of Freiburg
Cognitive Linguistics
FRIAS School of Language and Literature (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
July 2012 – June 2014
Construction Grammar in interaction: a multimodal perspective on operator-scope-constructions across different genres of spoken interaction