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FRIAS Fellows 2020/21

In the academic year 2020/21, 30 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.

Portrait of Melanie Arndt

Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt

University of Freiburg
History

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

Fired Up: The Unintended Consequences of Energy Resilience

Portrait of Jörg Arnold

Dr. Jörg Arnold

The University of Nottingham, UK
History

External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – September 2021

From Loser to Winner – and back again: the British miner in the age of the de-industrial revolution, ca. 1967 to 1997

Portrait of Debjani Bhattacharyya

Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya

Drexel University
History

External Junior Fellow
March 2021 – July 2021

Balzan Project in Global History: Monsoon Landscapes. Law and Climate Science in the Indian Ocean World

Portrait of Jesus Bohorquez

Dr. Jesus Bohorquez

University of Lisbon
Global Economic History

External Junior Fellow
February 2021 – July 2021

Balzan Project in Global History: Slave trade and global capital. Comparative and global perspectives (1780-1850)

Portrait of Wolfram Burgard

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

Portrait of Sabine Dabringhaus

Prof. Dr. Sabine Dabringhaus

University of Freiburg
East Asian History

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

Cities and the Challenge of Water in Modern China

Portrait of Petra Dolata

Prof. Dr. Petra Dolata

University of Calgary
Energy History

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2021 – April 2021

Women in Energy Transitions: Agency, Resilience and Complicity

Portrait of Dietrich Earnhart

Prof. Dietrich Earnhart

University of Kansas
Economics

External Senior Fellow
June 2021

Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis

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Dr. John Eicher

Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
History

External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2020 – August 2021

The Sword Outside, the Plague Within: Influenza, War, and Religion, 1918-1920

Portrait of Hartmut Fünfgeld

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Fünfgeld

University of Freiburg
Human Geography

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

From ‘sustainable’ to ‘resilient’?  The reframing of urban policy and planning in the Anthropocene

Portrait of Hans Joas

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joas

Humboldt University of Berlin 
Sociology 

Distinguished Fellow 
January 2021 – December 2023
Permanent Fellow (University of Freiburg)
April 2013 – March 2014
FRIAS School of History
April 2011 – March 2014

1.) A Global Genealogy of Moral Universalism (2021-2023)
2.) “Sacralization and Secularization” (2011-2014)

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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

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Massimo Leone

University of Turin
Philosophy of Communication

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2020 – February 2021
April 2024 – August 2024

Transhuman Portraits: Artificial Faces in Art, Science, and Society (2020-2021)

Envisaging the City: An Interdisciplinary Study of Digital Urban ‘Facescapes’ (2023-2024)

Portrait of Veronika Lipphardt

Prof. Dr. Veronika Lipphardt

University of Freiburg
History of Science

Internal Senior Fellow
Oktober 2020 – December 2020

Science, Technology and Society: Benefits of researching and reflecting upon current developments

Portrait of Indrajit Maity

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

Portrait of Enrique Martino

Dr. Enrique Martino

Complutense University of Madrid
History and Anthropology

External Junior Fellow
February 2021 – July 2021

Balzan Project in Global History: Money, Bridewealth and Contract Labor in a Spanish-African Colonial Economy

Portrait of Oliver Müller

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

Portrait of Philipp Nothaft

Dr. Philipp Nothaft

University of Freiburg
Medieval History, History of Science

External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – January 2021

Transformations of Medieval Astronomy, 1000–1250

Portrait of Leonardo Patimo

Dr. Leonardo Patimo

University of Freiburg
Mathematics

Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

Modular Representation Theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials

Portrait of Nitzan Zohar

Prof. Dr. Uri Peskin

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Chemistry

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2020 – February 2021

Field-induced Mechanical Stabilization of Molecular Electronic Devices

Dr. Friedemann Pestel

University of Freiburg
History

Internal Junior Fellow
November 2020 – August 2021

Global Players: Orchestral Tours and International Musical Life in the 20th Century

Portrait of Martin Pfeiffer

Dr. Martin Pfeiffer

University of Freiburg
German Linguistics

Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction

Portrait of Gesine Pufal

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

Portrait of Walid Saleh

Prof. Dr. Walid Ahmad Saleh

University of Toronto
Islamic Studies

External Senior Fellow
(Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
June 2021 – August 2021

A History of Qur’anic Exegesis

Portrait of Alexei Skorobogatov

Prof. Dr. Alexei Skorobogatov

Imperial College London
Mathematics

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – December 2021

p-adic methods in the Brauer–Manin obstruction

Portrait of Stefan Tilg

Prof. Dr. Stefan Tilg

University of Freiburg
Latin

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

What Was Fiction? Concepts and Practices of Fictional Narrative in Classical Antiquity

Portrait of Silja Voeneky

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

Portrait of Tanja Vogel

Prof. Dr. Tanja Vogel

University of Freiburg
Life Sciences, Neurodevelopmental Epigenetics

Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021

Generating isogenic iPS-cell lines carrying different FOXG1 gene mutation for studying molecular causes of FOXG1-related syndrome

Portrait of Eva von Contzen

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)

Portrait of Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono

Prof. Dr. Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono

Gadjah Mada University
Anthropology

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
Oktober 2020 – August 2021

Tragedy of the private. A historical ethnographic account of an Indonesian plantation, 1870s-2000s

Portrait of Evi Zemanek

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.