External Senior Fellows
Dr. Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
University of Copenhagen
Anthropology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
April 2024 - August 2024
Always Already Entwined/ Impure: Buddhist Plastics and Praxis in Oceania
Prof. Dr. Peter Arkadiev
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Linguistics
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
November 2023 - August 2024
Argument flagging in head-marking languages: Types of interaction between argument-coding systems
Dr. Jenny Benham
Cardiff University
History, Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programm)
January 2024 - June 2025
Espionage in the Middle Ages
Prof. Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
Stockholm University
Historical Geography
External Senior Fellow (SCAS)
October 2023 - December 2023
Disentangling socio-political and climatic factors for famines in early modern Europe / Adaptations to climate change in the northern Baltic region ca 1500–1900
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Chua
Syracuse University
Architecture
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
Juli 2023 - Dezember 2025
More information will be provided soon.
Prof. Dr. Bret Davis
Loyola University Maryland
Department of Philosophy
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 - December 2025
Knowledge and Wisdom in Zen Buddhism
Prof. Dr. Raffaella A. Del Sarto
European University Institute
International Relations and Middle East Studies
External Senior Fellow
April 2024
The Mediterranean Middle East between global order and (g)local dilemmas
Prof. Christina Grozinger
Pennsylvania State University
Entomology, Genomics, Animal Behavior, Ecology & Sustainable Agriculture
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
March 2022 - December 2024
Accelerating research on land use and climate change effects on pollinator populations through high-throughput tools
Dr. Katarzyna Jankowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Linguistics
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2024 - May 2024
Behavioral correlates of gender stereotype processing in bilingualism
Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joas
Humboldt University Berlin
Sociology
Distinguished Fellow
January 2021 - December 2023
A Global Genealogy of Moral Universalism
Prof. Dr. Christel Kesler
Colby College (Maine, USA)
Department of Sociology
External Senior Fellow
August 2023 - July 2024
Work-family reconciliation in challenging times: How ethnicity, gender, and social policy shape caregiving responsibilities and employment trajectories across contemporary advanced democracies
Dr. iur. Aleksandr Khechumyan
Law
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
November 2022 - March 2024
Old Age, Severe Illness, and the Equal Impact of Punishment in Europe
Prof. Dr. Henrike Lähnemann
University of Oxford
German Medieval Studies
External Senior Fellow
July 2024 - August 2024
Internationalisation and Cooperation. Taking the Oxford - Freiburg connection further
Prof. Dr. Massimo Leone
University of Turin
Philosophy of Communication
External Senior Fellow ((Marie S. Curie FCFP)
April 2024 - August 2024
Envisaging the City: An Interdisciplinary Study of Digital Urban ‘Facescapes’
Dr. Hab. Ipsita Mandal
Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
External Senior Fellow
January 2024 - June 2024
NEWFIS: New Frontiers For Interaction-Induced States
Prof. Dr. Suzanne Mohney
Pennsylvania State University
Materials Science and Engineering
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
December 2023 - December 2025
Novel Electrodes for Energy Conversion
Prof. Dr. Daniela Müller
Radboud University Nijmegen
Church History, History of Christianity, Canon Law
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 - December 2025
Old and New Debates about the Cathars. The Controversy on Catharism
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Nuñez
The University of Michigan
Immunology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 - December 2025
Inflammation and Metabolism in Host-Microbial Interactions
Prof. Dr. Onookome Okome
University of Alberta
African Studies, Literature and Cinema
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 - December 2025
Nollywood: Text, Context, Controversy
Dr. Felicitas Opwis
Georgetown University
Islamic Studies
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 - December 2025
Language and Hermeneutics in the Islamic Sciences
Prof. Dr. Klaus J. Puettmann
Oregon State University
Forest Ecology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
June 2021 - December 2025
Developing and managing new forest ecosystems in times of global change
Prof. Dr. Jenny Reardon
University of California, Santa Cruz
Sociology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2024 - August 2024
More information will be provided soon.
Prof. Dr. Lauren Rickards
La Trobe University
La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab
Human Geography
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2023 - December 2025
Well-adapted sustainability; sustainable adaptation
Prof. Dr. Sandro Sessarego
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
External Senior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
May 2023 – August 2024
Afro-Veracruz Spanish and the Afro-Hispanic Language Atlas
Prof. Dr. Gregg Jørgen Suaning
University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 - December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
Prof. Dr. Nektarios Tavernarakis
University of Crete
Biology
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
August 2021 - December 2025
The role of mitophagy in neuronal quality control and survival during ageing
Dr. Giancarlo Urzúa
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Mathematics / Algebraic Geometry
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 - December 2023
Categorical and Geometrical Aspects of Algebraic Surfaces
Prof. Dr. Anika Walke
Washington University in St. Louis
History
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
December 2023 - August 2024
Bones, Dirt, and Ash: Holocaust Testimony Matters in Belarus