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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)
Juli 2023 - Dezember 2025

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

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

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. 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

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

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Kortmann

University of Freiburg
English Language and Linguistics

Rector's Fellow
April 2024 - July 2024

The Spread of World Languages

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. Andreas Mehler

Arnold Bergstraesser Institute; University of Freiburg
Political Science / Peace and Conflict Studies / Restitution Governance

Rector's Fellow
April 2024 - July 2024

Restitution Governance in a post-colonial context – Africa and Europe

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