Die Fellows 2025/2026

PhD, Senior Research Fellow
HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
Hungary under Orbán: The EU’s Only Electoral Autocracy in Comparative Perspective

Ph.D., Professor of Ecology
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Cricket Scores: Singers and Listeners (A Tinbergian Synthesis of Cricket and Katydid Acoustic Communication)

DPhil, Professor of Law
McGill University, Montreal
Medical Aid in Dying, Autonomy, and Somatic Oppression

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology
Washington State University, Pullman
Instructors as Meaning-Makers: How Belief Systems Shape Growth-Mindset Culture

PhD, Professor of International Law
SOAS University of London
Geopolitical Jurisprudence at the Frontier

DLitt (honoris causa), Rhodes University, Author and filmmaker, Director
Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa, Harare
Ubuntu 2.0: Insights for a More Sustainable Future from Ancient Bantu-Speaking Cultures

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economic History
Universität Stockholm
The Moral Economy: History and Explorations of a Critical Concept

DPhil, Professor of Jurisprudence
NOVA University Lisbon
According to Law

Dr. phil., Professor of History
Universität Tübingen
Dealing with Ethnic and Religious Diversity In Early Modern Germany: Baptismal Sermons for Muslim, Jewish, and “Heathen” Converts

Dr. phil., Archäologie
Wien
Sinnespraktiken und Sinnesregime: Materielle Kultur und die Sinne in der Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit

PhD, Professor of International Relations
Universität Amsterdam
The Tax Politics of the Super-Rich

Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Biology and Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington
Evolutionary Causes and Mechanisms of Male Mutation Bias

Ph.D., Historian
Durham, N.C., USA
The Ends of Race: The Rise and Fall of a Concept, 1780–1900

Dr. phil., Professor of History
Universität Wien
Language Barriers: Speaking across Divides

Dr., Professor of Literature, Principal Research Fellow
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyjiw
The Idea of Occidentalism and Post-World War Ukrainian Cultural Imagination (1945–1949)

VUIAS Fellowship abroad

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Theory
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Islam in Theory: Scripts of Unfreedom, Fanaticism, and Violence

Composer
Paris
Composition of a String Quartet, an Ensemble Piece, and a Chamber Opera

Artist, Associate Professor of Art
University of California, Los Angeles
RePose

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Statistical Physics (Emeritus)
King’s College London
From Neurons to Brains— from Societies of Brains to Brains of Societies

Theaterregisseurin
Berlin
Stahlgipfel

Mortier Next Generation-Fellow

DPhil, Professor of International Relations
London School of Economics and Political Science
Historical Legacies of Social Development of the Frontier and Civic and Political Activism in Russia

PhD, Professor of Anthropology
Barnard College, Columbia University
The Media System of Empire

PhD, Fellow
All Souls College, Oxford
The Western Mind: The Origins of a Myth

Dr. phil., Redakteur
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Ruinen der Zukunft. Roms Grande Raccordo als Modell für die postdigitale Stadt

Ph.D., Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science
Yale University
Defending Parliament: Responses of Mainstream Parties to Parliamentary Erosion

Ph.D., Professor of Ecology
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Universal Ecology. Understanding Life from Cells to Societies

Ph.D., Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology
Universität Chicago
Deference and Disruption in Political Interaction

Dr., Professor
Kyiv School of Economics
Dependency and Dissonance: Everyday Life under Occupation

VUIAS Fellowship abroad

Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Indiana University Bloomington
Mechanisms of Speciation in the 21st Century

PhD, Lecturer and Examination Coordinator, Food Science and Technology
Kyambogo University, Kampala
The Cold Chain and Perishable Produce Loss in the Ugandan Food System

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Dr. phil., Juniorprofessorin für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit mit dem Schwerpunkt Urbane Wissenskulturen in vergleichender Perspektive
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Reste und Ressourcen: Abfallregime in London im langen 18. Jahrhundert

PhD, Associate Professor of Law
McGill University, Montreal
Recollecting Legalities: Constitutional Reconciliation and the Future of Multinational Democracies

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
University of Burundi, Bujumbura
Understanding the Effects of Biomolecular Dynamics of Malaria Parasites and Vector through Multiscale Modelling and Agent-Based Models

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of Music
Cornell University
Sound Art: History in Search of a Concept

Dr. phil., Associate Professor of Chinese and Maritime History
London School of Economics and Political Science
Shark Fin in China: A Cultural History

Schriftstellerin
Wien
Nie mehr weinen (Arbeitstitel)

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
Boston University
Temporality and Method in Hegel’s Phenomenology

PhD, Computational Biology
Universität Bristol
The Evolutionary Roles of Extrachromosomal DNA

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Research Associate in Microbial Evolution
The University of Manchester
The Role of Regulatory Changes in Shaping the Evolvability of Opportunistic Pathogens

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Medicine and Health
Universität Sydney
Implementing Equitable Shared Decision Making for Older People in Primary Care

College for Life Sciences

PhD, Mechanistic Biology
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
On the Hunt for Novel Microbial Endosymbioses

College for Life Sciences

PhD, President
Centre for Bhutan and Gross National Happiness Studies, Thimphu
Well-Being in Art

Dr. phil., Redakteurin
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Momente, die bleiben. Zum politischen und gesellschaftlichen Einfluss von Krisen- und Kriegsbildern im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

Dr. iur., Professor für Öffentliches Recht und Rechtsphilosophie
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Konstitutionelle Demokratie. Zur Dynamik einer politischen Form

Ph.D., Associate Professor of German
Northwestern University, Evanston
Bluster: Bourgeois Anxiety and Expository Style in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-Century Germany