Current Fellows in the Academic Year 2023/24
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. Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Philosophy
External Junior Fellow
September 2023 - August 2024
Epistemology of complexity through a conceptual and historical discourse analysis of entropy
Dr. Sebastian Baasch
University of Freiburg, Institute for Imunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI)
Immunology
Internal Junior Fellow
October 2023 - July 2024
Deciphering the cellular reservoir of CMV latency
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)
October 2023 - November 2023
More information will be provided soon.
Prof. Dr. Eva von Contzen
University of Freiburg
English Literature
Internal Junior Fellow (ERC Fellowship)
April 2017 - December 2023
Lists in Literature and Culture: Towards a Listology (LISTLIT)
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
Dr. Daniel Duzdevich
The University of Chicago
Department of Chemistry
Molecular Biology, Origin of Life and Astrobiology
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 - August 2024
Midnight in the Laboratory: Adventures in the quest for life between test tubes and imagination
Prof. Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury
Aalborg University Denmark
Department of Politics and Society
Political Science, Global Refugee and Migration Studies
External Senior Fellow
Period still to be named
More information will be provided soon.
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 Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
February 2024 - March 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
Dr. Matthew Kinloch
University of Oslo
Narratology/History
External Junior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2023 - August 2024
Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative
Dr. Matthias Kranke
University of Kassel
Social Sciences/Political Science
International Relations and International Political Economy
YAS Fellow
October 2023 - September 2024
Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 - September 2024
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
Dr. Ervan Nurtawab
State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Metro & Faculty of Tarbiya and Teaching Sciences
Manuscripts, translations and commentaries of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia
External Junior Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow)
September 2022 - August 2024
Qur’an Manuscripts in Southeast Asia: Differences, Diversities and Standardisation
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. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Osterhammel
University of Freiburg
History
Distinguished Fellow
Balzan Prize 2018
March 2019 - December 2025
Balzan Project in Global History: Global Processes and the Dynamics of Regions
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. Jeanny Reardon
University of California, Santa Cruz
Sociology
External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
March 2024 - August 2024
More information will be provided soon.
