The Fellows 2024/2025

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Theory
The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana
Egalitarian Bi-nationalism for Israel/Palestine

Ph.D., Professor and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Geobiology
The University of Texas at Austin
Biological Innovation and the Evolution of Birds

Dr., Chargée de recherche
Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, Aubervilliers
Les révoltes postcoloniales en Méditerranée du sud, une histoire de la dignité

Artiste, chercheuse
Paris
Weltanschauung d’Iranshahr

PhD, Senior Lecturer on quantum computing and quantum optics
University of Ngaoundéré
Toward Exceptional Point Quantum Sensors

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Ph.D., Microbial Ecology
University of Melbourne
Microbial Rewilding to Enhance Threatened Species Conservation

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Professor of Modern British History
King’s College London
A Global History of Production

Dr., Director General
Institute of Political History, Budapest
An Invisible Empire? The Austro-Hungarian Economic Space in Southeast Europe 1890–1940: Actors, Structures, Embeddedness, Factors of Resilience

Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellow

Écrivain
Barcelone
« Une épopée arabe », projet de roman

Ph.D., Principal Investigator
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Juriquilla, Queretaro
Mathematical Modeling to Reshape Our Understanding of Biological Systems

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Finding Organizing Principles for the Chemical Diversity of Marine Microbes

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Professor of History
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Women of 1968: Africans in the Global Context

Senior Fellow for China Studies
Council on Foreign Relations, New York
China’s New Civil Religion: A New Pillar or a New Challenge for Neo-Authoritarian Rule?

Author, commentator, and broadcaster
London
“Why the World Does It Better”

D.Phil., Professor of Medieval Studies (Medieval German)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Scientific Discourse in Medieval Vernacular Texts

Dr. phil., Schriftsteller
Berlin
Konfliktstoff. Israel und Palästina für deutsche Schulen

Dr. phil., Professor für Alte Geschichte
Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Auf dem Weg zu einer polyzentrischen Geschichte der Spätantike: Grenzüberschreitende Zentren in der Spätantike

Ph.D., Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Universidade de Lisboa
The Role of the History of Exposure in Adaptation to Multiple Stressors

Ph.D., Senior Researcher
Carnegie Science, Washington, D.C.
Reshaping Education in the Biological Sciences

Dr. jur., Professor für Staatstheorie, Vergleichendes Staatsrecht und Politische Wissenschaften
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Personen und Sachen: Die Verfassung des Eigentums im koordinierten Kapitalismus

DPhil, Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Progress and Regress in Morals and Politics

Compositrice, professeur de l’art
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo
Scientifique, empathique et culturel : Trois représentations du cœur dans la création musicale

PhD, Professor of Anthropology
University of Douala
Inhospitable Medicine: Homosexuality, Medical Discrimination, and the Precarious Life in Cameroon

Dr. phil. nat., Professor for History of Science
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Histories of Plants and Cultures, ca. 1840–1920

Dr, Senior Lecturer of Industrial and Textile Engineering
Moi University, Eldoret
Computational Modelling of Tubular Fibrous Scaffold Structures for Cardiovascular Graft Applications

Iso Lomso-Fellow

PhD, Medical Imaging
The University of Manchester
How Can Medical Imaging Research Better Serve Historically Marginalised Groups?

College for Life Sciences

DPhil, Professor of Philosophy
King’s College London
Liberty, Authority, and Responsibility

Dr. phil., Professor Emerita for Practical Philosophy
University of Vienna
Why Groups Matter to You

PD Dr., Kulturwissenschaften
University of Hamburg
Postpreußen: Von der Unfähigkeit, Abschied zu nehmen (Buchprojekt mit Felix Ackermann)

Wissenschaftspreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung - Fellow

Independent director, writer, and producer

Cinema or Freedom

PhD, Architect, artist, curator
Warsaw
The Architecture of Hiding

Ph.D., Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Comparison Controversies: Conflicts in Cultural Memory

Ph.D., History
Zagreb
A Ukrainian Universe: The Journal Vsesvit and the Pursuit of Universalism in 20th-Century Ukraine

VUIAS Fellowship abroad

PhD, Professor of Music
University of Dar es Salaam
Sonic Letters, Decolonial Acts: Musical Figures, Swahili Literature, and Anti-imperialist Struggles in Tanzania

Dr. phil., Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Indiana University Bloomington
Causes, Hypotheses, and Empirical Checks: Working Philosophies of Science in the German Lands Around 1800

DPhil, Professor of Comparative Politics
University of Oxford
Elections and Democracy: Voter ID, Electoral Integrity, and Access to the Ballot Box

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History
University of California at Santa Barbara
From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology
Auburn University
Spatial Organization in the Superorganism Nest

College for Life Sciences

Artist
Jaffa
The Swing

Dr. habil., Professor of Humanities
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Towards a Pogrom Model Kit. The Case of Brzesko 1918

Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor and Chair of the Study of Religions, Director of the African Centre for Religions, Ethics, and Society
University of Cape Town
Infrasacred Formations: The Moral Economies of Sacred Space in Africa

PhD, Professor of History
Birkbeck College, University of London
Auschwitz. A New History

Ph.D., Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of Notre Dame
A Philosophical Reformation? Biblical Demythologization of Mesopotamian Myth and Its Implications

Ph.D., Silverzweig Professor of Economics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Game Theoretic Models of Social Media