The Fellows 2009/2010

Dr., Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience and Sociobiology
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås
Life History "Ground Plans" in Social Insect Evo-Devo

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Ph.D., Estonian and General Linguistics
University of Tartu
Aspects of Estonian Intonation

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of Political Theory
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Forms of Secularity Before Modern Secularism

Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Washington, D.C.
"On the Western Express"

Musician, Author
London
About Musical Interpretation

Ph.D., Anthropology, Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Social Interaction and Conversation in Tzeltal Mayan

Dr., Professor of Iconography of Ancient Art
Università di Pisa
The Disease of Women

Ph.D., Biological Cybernetics
Bielefeld University

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations
Dartmouth College
Mainstreaming Islam: Taking Charge of the Faith

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Quantum Information Theory
University of Potsdam
Information, Coherence, Entanglement

Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information

President and Rector (emer.)
Central European University, Budapest
The University of the 21st Century: Content and Curricula

Dr. Dr., Mathematics and Physics, Directeur de recherche
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
Wavelets and Turbulence

Ph.D., Professor of Music
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sounds of War: Music in America During World War II

Marie Curie-Fellow

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
Liszt-Opera

D.Phil. (Oxon), Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art
Columbia University
Motion and Emotion in the History of Art

Dr., Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East European Studies
Columbia University
Alexander Pushkin and the World of Early European Romanticism

J.D., Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies Program
The University of Michigan Law School
The Structure of Authority

Ph.D., Philosophy
Tel Aviv University
Causality and Logical Derivation in Late Neoplatonism

Ph.D., Professor (ret.) of Music
University of Sussex
Global Ethic: A Vision in Music

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of the Organization and Function of the Neural System of the Octopus and the Implications in Relation to the Octopus' Unique Body Plan and Behavior@

Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

Dr. iur., Professor (emer.) of Public Law and Administrative Law
University of Hamburg
Social Innovations and the Role of Law

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor (emer.) of Zoology
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Developmental Evolution of a Superorganism

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Ph.D., Reader in Biology
University of St. Andrews
Reference and Vocal Learning in Animal Communication

Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication

Author
Budapest

Ph.D., Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University
Interiors at Risk: Spaces of the Self in Contemporary Art

Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy
Arizona State University, Tempe
Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution: Conceptual and Historical Reflections

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Ph.D., Professor of Zoology
University of Stockholm
The Evolution of Phenotypic Determination and the Principles of Adaptive Developmental Plasticity

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Dr. phil., Professor of Linguistics
University of Zurich
Consumption and Communication: A Cultural History of Their Intertwinement

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
University of Copenhagen
Social Interactions and the Evolution of Complex Phenotypes

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

D. Phil., Professor of Sociology
New York University
Sociology of Morals

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Romanian Literature, Author
University of Bucharest
Cognitive Science and Literature: What does the Mind See?

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Author
Frankfurt/Main
Writing a Novel

Novelist
Mumbai
"The Broken Compass"

Ph.D., Physics
University of London
Simulation of Disordered Quantum Systems

Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information

Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Life Sciences
Arizona State University, Tempe
The Developmental Evolution of Division of Labor

Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Ph.D., Professor of Multilingual Multicultural Studies
New York University
Separation of Church and State: An Argument From the Devout. A Case Study in America's Evangelical Communities

Dr. rer. nat. habil., Extraordinary Professor of Theoretical Physics
University of Osnabrück
Embodied Neural Locomotion Control

Funktionelle und strukturelle Randbedingungen bei der Evolution sensomotorischer Netzwerke

Dr. phil., Professor of the Epistemology and Philosophy of Digital Media
University of Vienna
Computer Simulation: A History of the Technics of Scientific Knowledge since 1945

Dr. Drs. h.c., Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Rector
New Europe College, Bucharest
Old Testament Cosmology from an Inter-Religious Perspective

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Aporia and the Demand for Definitions in Plato's Early Dialogues

Ph.D., H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Plato's Shadows: An Essay on Theater and Philosophy

Pianist, Professor of Music
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
Essays on Music

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Theoretical Physics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Classical Description of Quantum Mechanical Many-Body Systems

Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information

Ph.D., Biology
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Factors Affecting Caste Fate in Social Insects

John Maynard Smith Prize-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor of Philosophy
University of St. Gallen
Greed and Its Discontents: The California Gold Rush as a Key to Modernity

Ph.D., D.Phil., Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
The University of Manchester
The Post-Romantic Syndrome

Neurocybernetics
University of Osnabrück
Comparing Biological With Evolved Artificial Neural Networks in the Sensorimotor Loop

Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology
University of Cambridge
Making Faces: A History of the Human Face in Four Parts

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Neurobiology
University of Ulm
The Motor Control Network in Locust Flight - Segmental Organisation and Sensorimotor Interactions

Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

Senior Fellow, Political Science
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Democratic Politics in Contemporary India

Ph.D., Neuroscience
Université de Montréal
Neuro-Mechanical Synergies for Movement Control: Insights from Biomechanical and Control System Modelling

Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

Ph.D, Professor of Psychology
University of St. Andrews
The Psychological Basis of Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication

Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication