FRIAS Fellows 2015/16
In the academic year 2015/16, 55 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.
Prof. Dr. Hagai Abeliovich
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Cell Biology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July – September 2016
Mechanisms of intra-mitochondrial selectivity during mitophagy
Prof. Dr. Klaus Aktories
University of Freiburg
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Role of membrane dynamics, intracellular trafficking and autophagosomal processes in cytotoxicity of Rho-modifying bacterial protein toxins.
Dr. Manuela Antonioli
University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2015 – August 2016
In vivo study of the protein interaction network on lysosomes during starvation.
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. Monika Bednarek
The University of Sydney
Corpus Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2015 – June 2016
A corpus linguistic analysis of linguistic practices and innovation in television dialogue.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Brüggemeier
University of Freiburg
Economic, Social and Environmental History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
The Age of Coal. A European History, 1750 until the Present.
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. Patricia Faraldo Cabana
University of A Coruña
Criminal Law
External Senior Fellow
October 2021 – March 2022 (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2015 – July 2016 (EURIAS Programme)
Automated (un)justice? Algorithmic governmentality in police investigation and criminal law (2021-2022)
Monetized justice (2015-2016)
Dr. Marco Caracciolo
University of Groningen
Comparative Literature
Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow)
September 2015 – January 2017
Embodiment and Cosmic Perspective-Taking in 20th Century Fiction
Prof. Jean-Christophe Cassel
University of Strasbourg,
Cognitive and Adaptive Neurosciences (LNCA)
External Senior Fellow
October 2015 – September 2017
Deep brain stimulation of the ventral midline thalamus to boost memory vividness over time.
Dr. Luca Corlatti
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Behavioural Ecology
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May 2016 – April 2017
Mating systems and anthropogenic influence: a life history perspective on mountain ungulates
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
Analysis of autophagosome Golgi/ER crosstalk (2015-2016)
Dr. Benoît Dillet
Loughborough University
Political Theory
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
October 2015 – September 2016
Anticipating Neoliberalism: The 1979 Moment in French Thought.
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.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Eimer
University of Freiburg
Neuronal Cell Biology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Regulation of mitochondrial integrity by Rab GTPase mediated control of mitophagy.
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.
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. Marino Freschi
Roma Tre University
Comparative Literature
External Senior Fellow
September 2020
September 2019
June 2018
August 2017 – September 2017
May 2016
September 2015
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October – November 2011
February 2011
Der andere Hesse
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
Dr. Sebastien Gros
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Department of Signal & Systems
Systems Control and Optimization (Laboratory)
Junior Fellow
January 2016 – March 2016
Fault-detection & Recovery of AWE systems.
Dr. Niels Grüne
University of Innsbruck
History
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2015 – September 2016
‘Verkäufer in Rebus publicis’? Corruption as a political argument and field of conflict in early modern Europe: German territories and England compared.
Prof. Dr. Sabine Hake
University of Texas at Austin
Cultural Studies
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
October 2015 – July 2016
The Dream of the Proletariat—Class Identifications and Socialist Imaginaries in Germany, 1863-1973.
Prof. Dr. William S. Hlavacek
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Systems Biology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
November 2015 – December 2015
May 2016 – June 2016
Prof. Dr. Ulrich G. Hofmann
University Clinic Freiburg
Neural Engineering, Translational Neurosciences
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – September 2017
Deep brain stimulation of the ventral midline thalamus to boost memory vividness over time.
Prof. Dr. Tobias B. Huber
University of Freiburg
Medicine/Nephrology/Molecular Medicine
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Membrane Trafficking in Ageing and Disease.
Prof. Dr. Hans W. Hubert
University of Freiburg
Art History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Socio-cultural concepts of heroism and otium/leisure in art and architectural treatises of the Italian Renaissance.
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.
Dr. Leon Karpa
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2014 – October 2016
Quantum transport of ions in optical lattices.
Prof. Dr. Miriam Kingsberg
University of Colorado Boulder
History of Modern Japan
External Senior Fellow (Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship)
June – July 2016
The Objectivity Generation: Japanese Human Scientists and the Transwar World.
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. Brian B. Laird
University of Kansas
Theoretical/Computational Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
July 2016 – January 2017
Simulation and Theory of Chemically Heterogeneous Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Prof. Dr. Riccardo Leoncini
Alma Mater University Bologna
Economics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie, FCFP)
October 2015 – February 2016
June 2016 – July 2016
Innovation and inequality
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. 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. 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. S. Douglas Olson
University of Minnesota
Classical Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
December 2015 – August 2016
A Commentary on the Fragments of the Comic Poet Eupolis.
Dr. Juan S. Ordonez
University of Freiburg
Biomedical Microtechnology, Microsystems Engineering
Junior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
A novel mechanical model for safe electrical stimulation.
Prof. Dr. Ketan Patel
University of Reading
Developmental Biology and Tissue Regeneration
External Senior Fellow
August 2015 – July 2016
Connectivity Map – A transcriptional approach for drug repurposing and its application to kidney disease and the ageing kidney.
Prof. Dr. Mihai Paun
University of Illinois in Chicago
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
June – July 2016
May – August 2017
Monge-Ampere equations and Kodaira dimension of algebraic fiber spaces
Prof. Dr. Johanna Pink
University of Freiburg
Islamic Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2015 – March 2016
April – July 2017
Contemporary Qur’anic exegesis in historical perspective
Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper
University of Sydney
Political Sociology and Migration Studies
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
June – October 2016
April – July 2017
Reconceptualising Migrants Rights in a Global and Transnational Context.
Prof. Dr. Ilia Polian
University of Passau
Computer Science / Computer Engineering
External Senior Fellow
Sabbatical
April 2016 – July 2016
Hardware Security: A Prerequisite for Digital Sovereignty.
Prof. Dr. Andrew I. Port
Wayne State University
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January 2016 – July 2016
What Germans Talk About When They Talk About Genocide: German Reactions to Post-Holocaust Genocide.
Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher
University of Freiburg, Institute for Staatswissenschaft & Philosophy of Law
Public Law and Legal Philosophy
Rector’s Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand R. Prostmeier
University of Freiburg
New Testament Literature and Exegesis
Rector’s Fellow
April 2016 – September 2016
Theophilos von Antiochia »An Autolykos« – Übersetzung und Kommentar.
Prof. Dr. Anne Rasmussen
University of Strasbourg
History of Science
External Senior Fellow
October 2015 – September 2017
Soldiers out of control: An entangled history of accidents in the French and German military, 1920-1970.
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Romaine
University of Oxford
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2015
May 2016
Poor People in rich places: Linguistic diversity, biodiversity and poverty.
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. Pierre Schaaf
University of Strasbourg
Physical-Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
October 2015 – September 2017
Development of model mechano-transduction films based on engineered avidin monomers: An example of soft-mechano-chemistry (with Stefan Schiller).
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)
Dr. Christina Schröer
University of Freiburg
Modern European History
Junior Fellow
October 2015 – July 2016
Religion and Politics at the Beginning of the Age of Masses – A Comparison of France and Germany (1870s – 1920s).
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.
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
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. Pierre-Louis Tharaux
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Medicine/Nephrology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2015 – October 2016
Determinants of metabolic switches and cell death of glomerular cells in Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis and Ageing.