FRIAS Fellows 2017/18 – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

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. Lorena Bachmaier

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

Dr. Yury Belyi

Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology
Microbiology

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
March – April 2018

Molecular mechanisms of alteration in eukaryotic membrane trafficking induced by Legionella pneumophila, vacuolar pathogen of phagocytic cells

Prof. Dr. Jean Bérard

University of Strasbourg
Mathematics

External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019

Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications

Prof. Dr. Joseph Bernstein

Tel Aviv University
Algebraic Geometry

External Senior Fellow
June – August 2018

Soergel’s conjecture and Langlands’ correspondence for p-adic groups

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. Oliver Bräunling

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Algebraic K-theory and the mystery of special algebraic structures in characteristic p>0

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Breit

University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry

Internal Senior Fellow
July 2008 – September 2010
April 2017 – December 2017

Chemical Epigenetics

Prof. Dr. Anna Buchheim

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

Prof. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz

International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin
Psychology

External Senior Fellow
Januar – Februar 2018

Conversation Analysis – an evaluative tool? Comparing pair dynamics before and after treatment

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. Kate Burridge

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

Prof. Dr. Nancy D. Campbell

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
History of Science and Technology

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September – December 2017
May – July 2018

Resonant Histories: Synchronization in Social Movements and Science

Dr. Lawrence Chua

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

Dr. Majid Daneshgar

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

Prof. Dr. Mark Andrea De Cataldo

Stony Brook University
Mathematics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017
May – July 2018

Support and symmetries for Hitchin fibrations

Dr. Isabelle Deflers

University of Freiburg
History

Junior Fellow
March – July 2018, October 2018 – February 2019

The “Military Enlightenment” in Europe

Prof. Dr. Frédéric Déglise

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

Dr. Gabriel Dufour

University of Freiburg
Physics

Junior Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
October 2017 – May 2019

Bosonic mixtures on a lattice: (in-)distinguishability and interactions

Prof. Dr. Ernst Eberlein

University of Freiburg
Mathematical Stochastics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019

Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications

Prof. Dr. Karl-Theodor Eisele

University of Strasbourg
Financial Mathematics

External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019

Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications

Prof. Dr. Philippe Eyssidieux

Université Grenoble Alpes
Mathematics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2018
March 2018 – May 2018

New Kähler groups

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. 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. Nicolas Giuseppone

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

Prof. Dr. Anne Harrington

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

Prof. Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus

University of Freiburg
Cultural Studies

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – August 2018

Synchronization in Embodied Interaction

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang R. Hess

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

Dr. Anne Holzmüller

University of Freiburg
Musicology

Junior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Immersion as a Mode of Sacred Music Experience in the Late Eighteenth Century

Dr. Ghada H. Ibrahim

Electronics Research Institute, 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. Florian Ivorra

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

Dr. Jacob Sider Jost

Dickinson College Carlisle
English Literature

Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018

Interest in the Long Eighteenth Century

Prof. Dr. Stefan Kebekus

University of Freiburg
Complex and Algebraic Geometry

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2018

Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

Prof. Dr. Annette Huber-Klawitter

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Cohomological Methods in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

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. med. Claas Lahmann

University Hospital Freiburg
Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Research Focus: Synchronization in Embodied Interaction

Prof. Dr. Christian Leukel

University of Freiburg
Sport Science/Human Neurophysiology

Internal Junior Fellow
April 2017 – January 2018

Investigating the corticospinal system in humans

Dr. Errol Lord

University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy

Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
September 2017 – August 2018

Knowing the Normative World

Prof. Dr. Evie Malaia

University of Alabama
Linguistics

External Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development

Dr. Catherine McBride

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Developmental Psychology

External Senior Fellow (EURIAS Programme)
October 2017 – July 2018

Towards a Global Understanding of Dyslexia: Cognitive-Perceptual, Cognitive-Linguistic, Socio-Cultural, and Neurobiological Aspects

Prof. Dr. Andreas Musolff

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?

Prof. Dr. Murugappan Muthukumar

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

Prof. Dr. Johannes Nicaise

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

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Norris

Auckland University of Technology
Linguistics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
February 2018 – August 2018

Acquisition of multimodal synchronization

Prof. Dr. Jorge Vittoro Pereira

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro
Algebraic Geometry

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
December 2017 – February 2018

Birational Geometry of Foliations

Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder

University of Freiburg
Interactional Linguistics and Multimodal Corpus Linguistics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
FRIAS School of Language and Literature
October 2012 – September 2013
April 2009 – September 2010

Synchronization in Embodied Interaction

Dr. Fritz Renner

University of Freiburg
Experimental Psychopathology

Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
June 2018 – September 2019

The (b)link between reward anticipation and depression

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

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. Pascale Romby

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)

Prof. Dr. Carl Eduard Scheidt

University Hospital Freiburg
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018
Interdisciplinary Research Group
October 2011 – July 2012

Synchronization in Embodied Interaction

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schmidt

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – September 2019

Linking Finance and Insurance: Theory and Applications

Dr. Paolo Silvestri

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

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Spielberg

University of Freiburg
Catholic Theology, Pastoral Theology, Practical Theology

Junior Fellow
January 2015 – August 2018

Global Transformations of Catholicism: Strategies of Plurality – Role Models – Questions of God

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Soergel

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2017 – July 2018

Cohomology in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

Dr. Michael Staab

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?

Prof. Dr. Dimitris Stamatopoulos

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.)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tschacher

University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern
Psychology

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
January 2018 – June 2018

Embodied communication and its basis in nonverbal synchrony