The Fellows 2019/2020

LL.M. (Harvard), Senior Adviser in Constitution-Building in the Africa and West Asia region
International IDEA
Arab Constitutionalism and Peace Processes

Dr. iur., LL.M., S.J.D., Professorin für Bürgerliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie
Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU)
Rechtsinstitutionen der Digitalen Moderne

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Transnational Approaches to Immigrant Labor Rights Advocacy

M.D., Obstetrics and Gynecology
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
Dysfunctional MDR-1 disrupts mitochondrial homeostasis in the oocyte and ovary - an explanation for poor oocyte quality?

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Assyriology
University of Copenhagen
Religion in Ancient Iraq: Ritual and Divinity in Early Mesopotamia

D.Sc., Professor of Medicine
University of Oxford
Understanding the Vulnerability of Brain Cells to Ischaemia and Aging

Ph.D., Quantitative Biology and Statistical Physics
Arizona State University, Tempe
The Theory of Collective Decisions

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Professor of Sociology
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm)
The Mechanisms of Redress: a Sociological Approach

Dr. phil., Professor of Sociology
Bielefeld University
Algorithmic Prediction: a Study of its Relationship to Probabilistic and Divinatory Forms

Ph.D., Professor of Zoology and Neurobiology
University of Konstanz
Insect Intentionality and Sentience: Understanding Complex Behaviors in Social Insects

Dr., Writer
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
The First Fear (a novel)

Dr., Professor of History
Baku Research Institute
Dashed Hopes for Democracy: the History of Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

D.Phil., Professor of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Morality of Privatization

Dr. rer. nat., Dr. h.c., Professor of Computational Social Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
The Digital Revolution: a Fight for the Future of Our Society

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University, Sydney
Global Patterns of Warning Colours - How Variable are They?

Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology

Dr. phil., Professor für Geschichte
Technische Universität Dresden
Geschichte der Antike

LL.D., S.J.D., Bruce W. Wayne Professor of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A Multicultural Entrapment: Religion and State Among the Palestinian Arabs in Israel

Ph.D., Biology
University of Arizona, Tucson
The Ecological Consequences of Communication Between Species

Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology

Dr., Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Ancestors and Ghosts: the Soviet Past in the Russian Religious Imagination

Dr. phil., Dr. theol., Professor für Theologie
Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma
Deutschsprachige Islamische Theologie: Hermeneutik und Kritik

Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and French
University of California, Los Angeles
Jorge Luis Borges and War

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Central European University, Budapest
The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of Law, journalist
University of Warsaw
The End of the Occupation Mentality: Selected Aspects of the Political, Legal and Cultural History of Poland Since 1989

Stage director and librettist
The Airport Society, Brussels
From Ego to Eco-System - Towards More Inclusive Opera

Mortier Next Generation-Fellow

Ph.D., Cell Biology and Immunology
Osaka University
Quantitative Biological Analysis of Neutrophils and Nets

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Professor of Evolutionary Ecology
University of Jyväskylä
Communication in Complex Communities; Ecology Matters

Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology

Dr. phil. habil., Directeur de recherche
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris
Anthropologie des Ungreifbaren: Die menschliche Gestik als Gegenstand der modernen Humanwissenschaften

Ph.D., Associate Professor of International History
London School of Economics and Political Science
Spectacles of Sovereignty: Persian Shahs in Imperial Europe

Dr., Qiu Shi Distinguished Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Religions
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
The Entanglement of Confucianism and Political Culture in Contemporary China

Ph.D., Biology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The Deep Evolutionary Origins of the Nervous System

College for Life Sciences

Dr. med., Neurology
Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Functional Disorders: the Cinderella Subject of Neurology

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Disease Ecology
University of Edinburgh
The Role of Circadian Rhythms During Infection

College for Life Sciences

Dr. phil., Professor für Islamwissenschaft
University of Zurich
Konzepte von Philosophie in der islamischen Welt

Ph.D., S.J.D., Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
A Model of Law

Ph.D., Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology
Columbia University
Diversity and Performance: Networks of Cognition in Markets and Teams

Ph.D., Professor of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis
A Popular Book and Data Synthesis

Composer, Professor of Composition and Computer Music
State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart
Composition of and Theoretical Work on the Second Book of "Miniature Estrose", for "Piano D'Amore"

Ph.D., Musicology
University of Edinburgh
Music and Subjectivity: Hearing the Self in 19th-Century Music

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries

Ph.D., Professor of History
Central European University, Budapest
The Faces of Crisis: Towards a Transnational Intellectual History of Europe in the 20th Century

Dr., Neue und neueste Geschichte
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Sterben, Überleben, Erzählen: über den Tod im Krieg anhand einer Schlacht erzählt

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Columbia University
Boundaries: from Geography to Metaphysics

Ph.D., Professor of History, Vigevani Chair in European Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Prince, the Jeweller and the Mogul: the Historical Meaning of the Most Extraordinary Early-Modern Work of Decorative Art

Ph.D., History
Princeton University
The Temporal Life of States: Sovereignty at the Eclipse of Empire

Dr., Sociology, Journalism
Kultura Liberalna Foundation, University of Warsaw
Emotions in Politics

Ph.D., Professor of Sinology
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
The Poetics of Memory: Wang Zhaoming (1883-1944) and China's WWII Collaboration