FRIAS Fellows 2021/22
In the academic year 2021/22, 46 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. Elmira Akhmetova
Institute of Knowledge Integration
History and Civilizational Studies
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
December 2021 – May 2023
Tatar Translations and Commentaries of the Qur’an in Imperial Russia
Dr. Maria Asplund
University of Freiburg
Bioelectronic Microtechnology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Derek Attridge
University of York
English and Related Literature
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – December 2021
The Challenge of Modernist Form: Innovative Style from Joyce to Coetzee
Prof. Dr. Pamela Ballinger
University of Michigan
History of Human Rights
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – December 2021
Materializing Empire: Infrastructures of Italian Fascism
Prof. Dr. Alice Blumenthal-Dramé
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă
University of Freiburg
Sociology / Global Studies
Rector’s Fellow
October 2021 – March 2022
De-Coloniality Now: Trajectories and Contestations
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. Patricia Faraldo Cabana
University of A Coruña
Criminal Law
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – March 2022
Automated (un)justice? Algorithmic governmentality in police investigation and criminal law
Prof. Dr. Jianshu Cao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical Physics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
June 2022 – November 2022
Light-harvesting Energy Transfer in Natural and Artificial Systems
Dr. Jennifer Eaglin
The Ohio State University
History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
February 2022 – July 2022
The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry
Prof. Dr. Tero Erkkilä
University of Helsinki
Political Science
External Senior Fellow
March 2022 – July 2022
Just Recovery from Covid-19 (JuRe)? Openness and Legal Oversight
Prof. Dr. Everlyn C. Ferstl
University of Freiburg
Cognitive Science and Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in Language and Cognition
Dr. Benjamin W. Goossen
Harvard University
History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
February 2022 – July 2022
The Year of the Earth (1957-1958): Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness
Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
JunProf. Dr. Adriana Hanuliková
University of Freiburg
Psycho-/Neurolinguistics, Bi-/Multilingualism
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Diversity in language and cognition
Prof. Dr. Upendra Harbola
Indian Institute of Science
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May 2022 – August 2022
Manipulating molecular junctions using quantum light
Prof. Dr. Azirah Hashim
University of Malaya
Applied Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2022 – May 2022
Internationalisation of Higher Education and English: Language Policies and Practices in universities in ASEAN
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. David Karlander
The University of Hong Kong
School of English
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Dreams of Unity: Language, Nation and Internationalism in the Swedish Workers’ Movement, 1900–1945
Dr. John J. Kasianowicz
University of South Florida, Tampa
Biophysics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – July 2022
Identification of proteins using single nanometer-scale pores
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. Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem
Purdue University
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – December 2021
Phosphatase-Dependent Regulation of CaMKII Kinase Activity in Heart Failure
Dr. Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
Loyola University Chicago
History Department
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Religion, Violence, and the Secular State in Mexico (1920-2020)
Dr. Sarah May
University of Freiburg
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Going Digital in the Woodworking Crafts
Prof. Lisa McGirr
Harvard University
History
External Senior Fellow
September 2021 – December 2021
Garrison Nation: The American Right, the Republican Party, and the Origins of Trumpism
Prof. Dr. Eyo O. Mensah
University of Calabar
Anthropological Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – November 2021
Husband is a priority: Gender roles, patriarchy and the naming of female children in Nigeria
Dr. Susana Minguet
University of Freiburg
Biology
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Nathans
University of Pennsylvania
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2022 – June 2022
Introduction, Commentary, and Scholarly Annotations to the first English translation of Simon Dubnow’s three-volume autobiography The Book of Life: Memoirs and Reflections. Materials for the History of My Time (1934-40)
Prof. Dr. Basile Ndjio
University Douala
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (MIASA)
September 2021 – December 2021
Behind closed doors: Chinese sex labour migration in Africa
Dr. Alexander Nyström
University of Freiburg
Biochemistry, Biomedical Science
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Dr. Margherita Picchi
University of Cape Town
Theology
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
April 2022 – September 2023
Khutba activism in South Africa: A history of the Claremont Main Road Mosque’s community tafsir in late Apartheid and post-Apartheid period
Dr. Vidhya Madapusi Ravi
University of Freiburg
Neuroscience/Neurooncology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
AutograFt Immune CompeteNt HumAn GLioblastoma ModEl (FINALE)
Prof. Dr. Gil Ribak
University of Arizona
Jewish Studies, History, and Ethnic Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2021 – June 2022
“Crude Creatures”: The Representation of Black People in Yiddish Culture
Prof. Dr. Catherina Rigby
Bath Spa University
Environmental Humanities
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October – December 2021
Religion, Resilience and the Multispecies City
Prof. Dr. Colleen Robles
Duke University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
May – July 2022
Stability of Hodge bundles
Dr. med. Christoph Schell
University of Freiburg
Pathology / Cell-matrix interactions / Fibrosis
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling
University of Freiburg
Proteomcs
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
MatrixCode: matrisome pathology
Dr. Benjamin Schütze
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, International Relations
YAS Fellow
October 2021 – June 2022 Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 – September 2024
Dr. Rita Sousa Silva
Leiden University
Urban Ecology and Urban Forestry
YAS Fellow
October 2021 – September 2023
Growing a sustainable future – increasing the adaptation and resilience of socio-ecological systems through green infrastructure
Prof. Dr. John C. Swanson
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Department of History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
January 2022 – June 2022
Superfluous Humanity: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album
Prof. Dr. Anelis Kaiser Trujillo
University of Freiburg
Gender Studies
Internal Senior Fellow
October 2021 – July 2022
Sex/Gender in Computer-Based Neuroscience: The Role of Big Data
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)
Dr. Lianming Wang
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Global Art History
External Junior Fellow
Balzan Fellow
March 2022 – August 2022
Transgressive Animals, Territorial Locality, and the Qing Global Histories
Dr. Roxana Willis
University of Oxford
Legal Anthropology
External Junior Fellow
(Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – July 2022
Rethinking Freedom: Insights from Black Protest and Demands for Decolonisation
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wogenstein
University of Connecticut
German Studies, Jewish Studies
External Senior Fellow (HRRC Fellow)
July 2021 – June 2023
Connecticut/Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium / Human Rights as Paradigm: Shifts in Contemporary German Jewish Literature
Prof. Dr. Michał Wrochna
Cergy Paris University
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2021 – August 2022
Non-elliptic spectral theory and emerging quantum geometries
Prof. Dr. Walter Zimmerli
Humboldt University Berlin
Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
May 2022 – July 2022
Digitalization – also an Anti-kantian Experiment?