This year, there is one Iso Lomso Fellow, two Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellows, six College for Life Sciences Fellows, and one VUIAS Fellow abroad..
Name
Year
Location
Adu-Gilmore, Leila
Adu-Gilmore, Leila
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
An AfroDiasporic Opera: Vocal Works as Creative Research through Critical Sonic Practice
USA
Barucci, Teresa
Barucci, Teresa
2026/2027
2026/2027
Bashford, Alison Caroline
Bashford, Alison Caroline
2026/2027Australia
2026/2027
PhD,
Scientia Professor of History
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Lands Before Time: Atlantis, Lemuria, Gondwanaland
Australia
Beckert, Sven
Beckert, Sven
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Harvard University
Tourism as a Commodity Frontier: A Global History
USA
Biaggini, Giovanni
Biaggini, Giovanni
2026/2027
2026/2027
Professor für Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Europarecht
University of Zurich
Verfassungen unter zivilgesellschaftlichem Anpassungsdruck – Eine Untersuchung zum Wandel des Verfassungsverständnisses und zur Rolle der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit
Brown, Kate
Brown, Kate
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Ph.D.,
Thomas Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
The Future of Food Is Urban
USA
Brunnée, Jutta
Brunnée, Jutta
2026/2027Canada
2026/2027
Dr. jur.,
Professor of Law and University Professor
University of Toronto
International Law in Precarious Times
Canada
Carassai, Sebastián
Carassai, Sebastián
2026/2027Argentina
2026/2027
Professor of History
University of Buenos Aires
Things that Happened in the Meantime. Argentine History from a Microhistorical Perspective (1966–1983)
Argentina
Cárdenas Bunsen, José
Cárdenas Bunsen, José
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Associate Professor of Spanish
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
The Politics of Secrecy and Revelation: Foundlings, Intergenerational Alliances, and the Invention of Identity in the Early Modern Colonial World
USA
Chen, Xi
Chen, Xi
2026/2027Hong Kong
2026/2027
Political Science
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Pandemic, Protest, and Political Stability in China
Hong Kong
Contis, Sam
Contis, Sam
2026/2027
2026/2027
Phases
Dysa, Kateryna
Dysa, Kateryna
2026/2027Ukraine
2026/2027
Professor of History
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
A Cultural History of Parks and Gardens in Ukraine (Late Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
Ukraine
Farina, Walter Marcelo
Farina, Walter Marcelo
2026/2027Argentina
2026/2027
Professor
University of Buenos Aires
Basic and Applied Knowledge for Understanding Complex Biological Systems: Social Bees as a Model in Integrative Biology
Argentina
Fleishman, Mark
Fleishman, Mark
2026/2027South Africa
2026/2027
Professor of Theatre and Performance
University of Cape Town
Approaches to Tragedy in (Post)Apartheid South Africa: Ruins, Caves, and the Aftermaths of Colonialism
South Africa
Gaillet, Aurore
Gaillet, Aurore
2026/2027France
2026/2027
Dr. iur.,
Professorin für öffentliches Recht
Université Toulouse Capitole
Die Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit angesichts pluralisierter Gesellschaften – ausgehend von der Rolle des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im Wiedervereinigungsprozess
France
Gárdos, Judit
Gárdos, Judit
2026/2027Hungary
2026/2027
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research Documentation Centre
ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
Social Scientific Knowledge-Making and Its Actors in Hungary. The Analysis and Action Plan of the Hungarian Academy Staff Forum
Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellow
Hungary
Gröschner, Annett
Gröschner, Annett
2026/2027
2026/2027
Grüneisl, Katharina
Grüneisl, Katharina
2026/2027United Kingdom
2026/2027
Human Geography
University of Nottingham
Breathless Lives of Global Fashion: Respiratory Struggles of South Asian Workers in Jordan’s Dormitory Migrant Labour Regime
United Kingdom
Keum, Tae-Yeoun
Keum, Tae-Yeoun
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Symbolic Politics of Blumenberg, Habermas, and Schmitt
USA
Kramar, Mirna Elizabeta
Kramar, Mirna Elizabeta
2026/2027France
2026/2027
Biophysics
Institut Curie, Paris
From Signals to Structure: How Cells Learn to Be a Tissue
College for Life Sciences
France
Langlitz, Nicolas
Langlitz, Nicolas
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Professor of Anthropology
The New School for Social Research, New York
Is There a Place for Psychedelics in Late Modern Societies?
USA
Laplane, Lucie
Laplane, Lucie
2026/2027France
2026/2027
Permanent Researcher in Philosophy of Science
Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Rethinking Cancer Treatment
France
Long, Manyuan
Long, Manyuan
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution
The University of Chicago
The Origin of Genes
USA
Manzano, Valeria
Manzano, Valeria
2026/2027Argentina
2026/2027
The Last Snapshots of the Latin American Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Nostalgia, 1979–1991
Argentina
Marting, Peter R.
Marting, Peter R.
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Animal Behavior
Auburn University
The Sound Engine: A New Comparative Tool for Perceiving Complexity
College for Life Sciences
USA
Nguyen, Minh
Nguyen, Minh
2026/2027Germany
2026/2027
Professor of Social Anthropology
Bielefeld University
Fictitious Commodities Revisited: Enquiries into the Great Transformations of Market-Socialist Asia
Germany
Olupona, Jacob K.
Olupona, Jacob K.
2026/2027
2026/2027
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Yorùbá Thought and Culture: Insights from Ifá Divination Poetry
Oña, Leonardo
Oña, Leonardo
2026/2027Germany
2026/2027
Osnabrück University
Stability in microbial cross-feeding: interaction patterns and evolving life cycle
College for Life Sciences
Germany
Padró, Julián
Padró, Julián
2026/2027Argentina
2026/2027
Evolutionary Biology
GenoMov: Toward a Conceptual Framework Linking Avian Movement, Genomics, and Disease Ecology
College for Life Sciences
Argentina
Petrovic, Dalibor
Petrovic, Dalibor
2026/2027Serbia
2026/2027
Professor of Sociology
University of Belgrade
Digital Authoritarianism and Infrastructural Power in Hybrid Regimes
John Maynard Smith Preis-Fellow
Serbia
Prior, Daniel
Prior, Daniel
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Professor of History
Miami University, Oxford, O.
Steppe Horizons of Indo-European Myth
USA
Raja, Rubina
Raja, Rubina
2026/2027Denmark
2026/2027
Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art
Aarhus University
Religion and Urbanity in Ancient Palmyra (Syria)
Denmark
Richards, Jake Subryan
Richards, Jake Subryan
2026/2027United Kingdom
2026/2027
Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of History
London School of Economics and Political Science
Refuge in Africa: Abeokuta and the Unmaking of Empire
United Kingdom
Semieniuk, Gregor
Semieniuk, Gregor
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Profits in Structural Transformation
USA
Shapira, Harel
Shapira, Harel
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Associate Professor of Sociology
The University of Texas at Austin
An Economy of Violence: Diversity and Death at an American Gun Store
USA
Smith, Helmut
Smith, Helmut
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Our Hometowns: Jewish Return and German Memory after the Holocaust
USA
Thillaikumar, Revathe
Thillaikumar, Revathe
2026/2027Germany
2026/2027
Ph.D.,
Evolutionary and Organismal Biology
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz
Rethinking Animal Culture Using Elephants as the Model Organism
College for Life Sciences
Germany
Von-Kiti, Elizabeth
Von-Kiti, Elizabeth
2026/2027Ghana
2026/2027
Materials Science
CSIR–Institute of Industrial Research, Accra
Establishing Criteria and Organizing Guidelines for Advancing Standards in Biochar Production and Consumption Using Renewable and Innovative Clean Alternatives
Iso Lomso-Fellow
Ghana
Wang, Yiman
Wang, Yiman
2026/2027USA
2026/2027
Professor of Film and Digital Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
Apocalyptic Education and Its Environmental Unconscious: Trans-Socialist Science Education Films and Campaign Media
USA
Weber, Isabella
Weber, Isabella
2026/2027
2026/2027
Wimmler, Jutta
Wimmler, Jutta
2026/2027Germany
2026/2027
Geschichte
Bonn
Das Königliche Lagerhaus Berlin 1713–1815: Ein Textilunternehmen und seine Angestellten in einer sich globalisierenden Welt
Stipendium der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung
Germany
Wittmers, Fabian
Wittmers, Fabian
2026/2027
2026/2027
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Impact of delayed research ethics investigations and retractions on manifestation of erroneous findings in the scientific literature
College for Life Sciences