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.

Prof. Dr. Melanie Arndt
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Fired Up: The Unintended Consequences of Energy Resilience

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Prof. Dietrich Earnhart
University of Kansas
Economics
External Senior Fellow
June 2021
Information-Based Environmental Regulation: Testing the Porter Hypothesis

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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. Philipp Nothaft
University of Freiburg
Medieval History, History of Science
External Senior Fellow
September 2020 – January 2021
Transformations of Medieval Astronomy, 1000–1250

Dr. Leonardo Patimo
University of Freiburg
Mathematics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Modular Representation Theory and Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials

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

Dr. Martin Pfeiffer
University of Freiburg
German Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2020 – July 2021
Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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.