FRIAS Fellows 2022/23

In the academic year 2022/23, 22 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. Michel Abeßer
University of Freiburg
History
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
Bound by difference. Interethnic economies at the Russian Empire’s southern periphery

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. Laura Becker
University of Freiburg
Linguistics
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2022 – July 2023
The distribution of zero marking in inflectional morphology: A typological corpus study

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

Prof. Dr. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
March 2022 – December 2025
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools

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)

Prof. Dr. Karola Kreitmair
University of Wisconsin
Bioethics / Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2023 – June 2023
Phenomenological, existential, and ethical considerations of digital behavioral technology

Prof. Dr. Adrian Langer
University of Warsaw
Mathematics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022
June 2023 – September 2023
Geometric structures on algebraic varieties

Prof. Dr. med. Karl-Heinz Leven
Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Medicine
Senior Fellow (Guest Researcher)
October 2022 – March 2023
Collaboration. Protest. Memory Culture. The Freiburg Pathologist Franz Büchner (1895-1991) during the Nazi-era

Dr. Debabrata Maiti
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Chemistry
External Senior Fellow
June – August 2023
Design of Chiral Templates for Enantioselective Distal C-H Functionalizations

Dr. Nibedita Nandi
University of Freiburg
Chemical Biology
Internal Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – September 2023
Identifying the Best: Microcystin based Selective Modulators of Protein Phosphatase-1 Activity

Prof. Dr. Anssi Peräkylä
University of Helsinki
Sociology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – July 2023
Facing Narcissism: Grandiosity and vulnerability of the self in the social world

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

Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol
University of Würzburg and University of Calgary
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – December 2022
Canadian-German comparative perspectives on urban-rural food initiatives and alternative food networks

Prof. Dr. Erik Schleef
University of Salzburg
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – June 2023
Measuring language attitudes: New methods, new challenges

Dr. Zainab Musa Shallangwa
University of Maiduguri
Cultural Studies
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
October 2022 – September 2023
Same People, Shifting Places: Cultural Memory and Identity Reconstruction in Monguno Resettled Community, Borno State, Nigeria

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. Michael Stolz
University of Bern
Medieval German Studies
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2023 – July 2023
The Poetics of the Visual. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Arab Optics

Prof. Julia S. Torrie
St. Thomas University
Contemporary European History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – April 2023
Frozen Food and Empire

Prof. Dr. Elena Vishlenkova
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich
History
External Senior Fellow (FELSA)
October 2022 – September 2023
Research on the subject of Soviet health care with a focus on “The Family of Nations“: Biosocial Foundations of Nation-Building in the USSR“

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. 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

Dr. Peng Zhang
University of Birmingham
Environmental Studies, Chemistry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – June 2023
Nano-enabled Strategies to Enhance Plant Tolerance to Climate Stress (NanoEnPlant)