FRIAS Fellows 2016/17
FRIAS fellowships, offered by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, bring together researchers from all disciplines and career stages in a dynamic, international environment, allowing them to fully devote themselves to their projects with extensive institutional support. In the academic year 2016/17, 55 fellows came to FRIAS for research stays, representing fields across the humanities, natural sciences, and technical sciences. They participated in core programmes, including the Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme, the Joint Fellowship Programme of the Volkswagen Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the EURIAS Fellowship Programme.
Prof. Dr. Ronald G. Asch
University of Freiburg
Early Modern History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
FRIAS School of History
April 2011 – September 2011
October 2008 – September 2009
On the eve of war: Europe between the Edict of Nantes and the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (2016-2017)
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. Sabina Becker
University of Freiburg
German Literature
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October 2008 – March 2009
Laboratorium Weimar: Konstellationen in Gesellschaft, Kultur und Literatur 1918-1933 (2016-2017)
Dr. Martin Bemmann
University of Freiburg
History of Economic Knowledge and Economic Statistics
Junior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
When the World Economy Began to Matter: International Economic Statistics, Economic Debates in Britain and Germany and Globalisation Processes between the World Wars
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Breit
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
April 2017 – December 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
Dr. Milena Bertolotti
University of Freiburg
Immunobiology
Junior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2017 – May 2019
Mapping the nanoscale organization of the BCR redox machinery
Dr. Stefan Buhmann
University of Freiburg
Physics
Junior Fellow (DFG Emmy Noether Fellow)
November 2014 – September 2019
Macroscopic Quantum Electrodynamics and its Consequences.
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
Dr. Todd Carmody
Harvard University
English Literature and American Studies
Junior Fellow (VW-Mellon Fellow)
October 2016 – September 2017
Racial Handicap: Uplift and Rehabilitation in Postbellum America
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. Oliver Einsle
University of Freiburg
Biochemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
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. Winfried Fluck
Free University of Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
North American Studies
External Senior Fellow
March – May 2017
Book Project: Reading for Recognition
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
Dr. Erica Fretwell
University at Albany (SUNY)
Department of English
American Literature
Junior Fellow
December 2016 – August 2017
With Feeling: Sensation and Social Life in Nineteenth-Century America
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. A. Ganesan
University of East Anglia
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – December 2017
Targeting Histone-Modifying Enzymes for Epigenetic Drug Discovery.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Günther
University of Freiburg
Pharmaceutical Sciences/Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
Chemical Epigenetics
Dr. Wai Yip Ho
The Education University of Hong Kong
Sociology/Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January – July 2017
Re-emergence of Middle Eastern Traders in China: Islam, Inter-Asian Connections and the New Silk Road Network
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. Harry Holthöfer
Dublin City University
Biomedicine
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January 2016 – March 2017
Urinary Exosomes for Novel Diabetes Diagnostics
Dr. Ghada H. Ibrahim
Electronics Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
Electronics and Engineering
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
November 2016 – August 2018
Development of RFID circuit building blocks using an organic TFT transistor technology.
Prof. Dr. Manfred Jung
University of Freiburg
Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
Interdisciplinary Research Group
October 2011 – July 2012
Chemical Epigenetics
Dr. Lorenzo Kamel
Harvard University
History/Islamic Studies
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – August 2017
The transformation of political Islam in a fragmented region: a Middle Eastern perspective
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. 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. Christian Leukel
University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018
Investigating the corticospinal system in humans
Prof. Dr. Martin Loughlin
London School of Economics
Law / Legal and Political Thought
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
October 2016 – July 2017
State, Law, Constitution
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mennel
University of Florida
German Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2016 – July 2017
Women and Work in Contemporary European Cinema
Dr. Elisabetta Nadalutti
University of Duisburg-Essen
Politics
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – April 2017
‘DEvelopment in Border Areas and iTs Ethics’ (DEBATE)
Prof. Dr. Udo Oppermann
University of Oxford
Molecular Biology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2016
April – September 2017
Understanding the role of histone demethylase LSD1 in mesenchymal stem cell biology and musculosketal ageing
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. Olaf Rank
University of Freiburg
Business Administration
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2016 – July 2017
Cooperative Network Structures in Hightech Clusters: A Multi-Level Analysis
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.
Dr. rer. nat. Stefanie Rätz
University of Freiburg
Astronomy / Astrophysics
Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2016 – May 2017
Variability and transiting extrasolar planets in young open clusters
Prof. Brian E. Richardson
University of Maryland
English Department
Modern Fiction and Narrative Theory
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
Mai – Juli 2017
Narrative Beginnings, Middles, Endings, and Beyond: Theorizing Plot after Postmodernism
Dr. Ian Riddlestone
University of Bath
Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
September 2016 – August 2018
Preparation of Stabilised and Free Silylium and Silicocenium Ions Featuring Known and Novel Weakly Coordinating Anions; Reagents for the Coordination and Activation of Small Molecules.
Prof. Dr. Andrea Riemenschnitter
University of Zurich
Chinese Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February – July 2017
Landscape Fever. Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics and the Environment
Dr. Michael Rießler
University of Freiburg
General Linguistics
Junior Fellow
March 2017 – February 2018
Language Documentation meets Language Technology: The Next Step in the Description of Komi
Prof. Dr. 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)
Prof. Dr. Christian Schneider
Washington University St. Louis
Germanic Languages and Literatures/Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September – December 2016
Narrative Logic and Cognition: Storytelling in Medieval German Epics (1150–1230)
Prof. Dr. Christian Schnell
Stony Brook University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
May – August 2017
Singular hermitian metrics on vector bundles
Prof. Dr. Marie Seong-Hak Kim
St. Cloud State University
Legal History
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
October 2016 – July 2017
Judicial Process and Constitutional Transitions in South Korea
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. Alejandro Toro-Labbé
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Chemistry/Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme / Marie S. Curie FCFP)
December 2016 – July 2017
A New Theory of Chemical Reactions.
Prof. Dr. Diego P. Vázquez
Argentine Institute for Dryland Research, CONICET, and National University of Cuyo
Biology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2016 – July 2017
Understanding the ecological impacts of increased climatic variability
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 – December 2023
Internal Fellow (FRIAS Project Group)
October 2024 – September 2025
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
Prof. Dr. Immo Warntjes
Trinity College Dublin
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January – June 2017
Scientific thought in early medieval Iberia
Prof. Dr. Aude Wirth-Jaillard
Université catholique de Louvain
Linguistics and Medieval History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2016 – July 2017
Vox Populi. Medieval speech from below, from spoken words to written records
Prof. Dr. Evi Zemanek
University of Freiburg
Media, Literary and Cultural Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
Oktober 2020 – July 2021
Ambivalent Ozone: Strategies of Resilience and Regeneration in Popular Media (1839–2019) – Towards a Cultural History of O3.