FRIAS Fellows 2019/20
In the academic year 2019/20, 33 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. Ridvan Askin
University of Basel
Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
Juni 2019 – October 2019
Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism
Prof. Dr. Youngsoo Bae
Seoul National University
History
External Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Capitalist Civilization in the United States: Whence and Whither
Prof. Dr. Stefan Baumgärtner
University of Freiburg
Environmental Economics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
University of Freiburg
Computer Science
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Julie Casteigt
University Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow
September – December 2019
Dynamische Einheit bei Meister Eckhart und Albert dem Großen
Prof. Dr. Carsten Dormann
University of Freiburg
Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
Prof. Dr. Alison M. Downham Moore
Western Sydney University, Australia
History of Medicine
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – April 2020
Sexual Ageing in the History of Medicine, 1774-2020
Prof. Dr. Carolin Duttlinger
University of Oxford
German Literature
External Senior Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks
Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
University of Freiburg
English literature and Narratology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Diachronic Narratology
Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
University of Freiburg
Islamic and Middle East Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
The Iranian Revolution: A Global Intellectual History
Dr. Joseph Harris
University of London
French and Comparative Literature
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – July 2020
The Misanthrope’s Progress: Hating Humanity in the Age of Reason
Prof. Dr. Henning Jessen
University of Freiburg
Bioorganic Chemistry
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Long-Term O2 Release From Organic Endoperoxides To Sustain Cells Under Anoxia
Prof. Dr. Janet Elise Johnson
Brooklyn College, New York
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
January – May 2020
Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Prof. Dr. Yuri Kabanov
University of Franche-Comté, France
Mathematics / Mathematical Finance
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
October 2019 – January 2020
Actuarial models in financial environment
Dr. med. Philipp Kellmeyer
University of Freiburg
Neurology
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Ariane Macalinga Borlongan
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
English linguistics, Historical linguistics, Sociolinguistics
External Junior Fellow
February – April 2020
Proportions of American Variants in Philippine English across Time
Dr. Indrajit Maity
University of Freiburg
Organic Chemistry
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
July 2020 – January 2021
Molecular Robotics to Actuate Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Functions
Prof. Dr. Dieter Martin
University of Freiburg
Modern German Literature
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
Christoph Martin Wieland’s material and immaterial legacy: Digital reconstruction and historical contextualization
Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller
University of Freiburg
Philosophy
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems
Dr. Balázs J. Nemes
University of Freiburg
Medieval German Literature
Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
The theologia mystica as “Literature of Experts”. The experti and Their Works in the Reading and Compilation Practice of the Erfurt Carthusian frater N.
Dr. Gesine Pufal
University of Freiburg
Ecology and Biodiversity
Internal Junior Fellow
April 2020 – January 2021
Identifying causes for directionality of ecosystem functions under climate change: seed predation and dispersal in a slug – seed model system
Dr. Noa Roei
University of Amsterdam
Visual Culture
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
Sensing Vision: Performative Encounters with the Politics of Spectatorship in Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Prof. Dr. Erwan Rousseau
Aix-Marseille University, France
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September – December 2019
On hyperbolicity in complex geometry
Prof. Dr. Francesca Saggini
Tuscia University, Italy
English Literature
External Senior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
March 2020 – June 2020
The Stage That Was Not: An Interdisciplinary Reappraisal of Frances Burney’s ‘Edwy and Elgiva’
Dr. Viacheslav Slesarenko
Cluster of Excellence livMatS, University of Freiburg
Solid State Mechanics
External Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
Instability-driven local pattern transformations for reconfigurable hierarchical mechanical metamaterials
Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stahl
University of Freiburg
Hydrology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
FRIAS Research Focus Environmental Forecasting
Dr. Adam Szymanski
McGill University Montreal, Canada
Film Studies
Junior Fellow
Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow
September 2019 – August 2020
The Production of Subjectivity in Psychotherapeutic Uses of Film
Dr. Tuan Leng Tay
University of Freiburg
Biology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2019 – July 2020
CellSign − an interactive meta-analysis web tool for contextual classification of cellular phenotypes based on gene expression
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. Katharina von Hammerstein
University of Connecticut, USA
German Studies
External Senior Fellow
Human Rights Research Consortium Connecticut & Baden-Württemberg
May – June 2020
Textual Representations of the German-Ovaherero Colonial War and Ovaherero Genocide 1904-1908 in the Former Colony of German Southwest Africa, today’s Namibia | Developing the Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium
Prof. Dr. Sitta von Reden
University of Freiburg
Ancient History
Rector’s Fellow
April – June 2020
Beyond the Silk Road: Economic Development, Exchange and Interimperiality in the Afro-Eurasian World (300 BCE to 300 CE)
Prof. Dr. Silja Vöneky
University of Freiburg
International Law
Internal Senior Fellow
March 2019 – December 2021
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Normative aspects of the interaction of humans and intelligent systems