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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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“

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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)

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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

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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)