Current Fellows in the Academic Year 2023/24
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
Dr. Ayesha Qurrat ul Ain
International Islamic University Islamabad
Religious Studies
Guest Fellow
August 2024 - January 2026
Modernity, science and Qurānic Hermeneutics in the Sub-continent: A study of selected responses to Darwinism in the twentieth Century
Prof. Dr. Jenny Reardon
University of California
Sociology and History of Science; Science and Technology Studies
External Senior Fellow
March 2024 - August 2024
A Genealogy of Expert Statements on ‘Race’ and Genetics: 1950 to the Present
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
Dr. Hans-Christian Riechers
University of Basel
German Literature
External Junior Fellow
April 2024 - September 2024
Columbus. A history of literature about the other and the self.
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
Dr. Robert Spindler
English and German Literature
External Junior Fellow (FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship)
June 2023 - December 2024
Outsiders, Lawbreakers, Apostates, Witches: Figures of Transgression in Narrative English Broadside Ballads (1550-1800)
Prof. Dr. Gregg Jørgen Suaning
University of Sydney
Neuroprotheses
External Senior Fellow (FRESCO Programme)
July 2021 - December 2025
Neural regeneration in spinal cord injuries
Dr. Maria Sulimma
University of Freiburg
North American Studies
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 - July 2024
Gentrification Imaginaries: Postindustrial Literature, Leisure, and Urban Transformations
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
