New Fellows wanted!

Since 2019, the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt" (Bayreuth Humboldt Centre) has been awarding international guest researchers who come to the University of Bayreuth for research stays. They cooperate with their Bayreuth hosts and get to know the Upper Franconian campus as a dynamic learning and research location, where interdisciplinarity and creative thinking are lived.

Applications for Senior and Junior Fellowships for 2025 can be submitted until 18 October 2024. Applications are also currently open for short research stays of one to three weeks as part of the Short Term Grant Programme (deadline: 04.11.2024).

Applications are open to researchers from abroad; women and anyone who can contribute to making the research profile of the university more diverse are strongly encouraged to apply. Potential hosts of applicants are all active professors and junior professors of the University of Bayreuth as well as post-doctoral researchers and heads of junior research groups.

Further information and detailed application conditions can be found on our website www.humboldt-centre.uni-bayreuth.de. The office will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

The eight Fellows come from seven different countries. “The selection of the fellows was particularly exciting this year,” says Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler, Director of the Bayreuth Humboldt Centre. “For the first time, the majority of applications came from the humanities. We are delighted that the number of applications has stabilized at a good level.” This year's fellowships go to:

1. Dr. Philipp Braun (Junior Fellow) from the Australian National University in Canberra. He will be working in Bayreuth on a project in the field of applied mathematics with a focus on Lyapunov-based stability theory for non-linear dynamical systems with applications in systems theory and control engineering. His host is Prof. Dr. Lars Grüne.
2. Prof. Dr. Diego Bustos (Senior Fellow) from CONICET in Argentina. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Andreas Möglich, he will develop new optogenetic tools to investigate the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in 14-3-3 cellular signal transduction in living cells.
3. Dr. Cassandra Gorman (Senior Fellow) from Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Together with her host Prof. Dr. Florian Klaeger, she will examine the history of the relationship between natural philosophy and poetics through poetic writings by early modern English women.
4. Dr. Kan Ma (Junior Fellow) from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He will work with his host Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Silvia Ulrich on superalloys for advanced applications in concentrated solar power plants.
5. Prof. Dr. Christopher Meissner (Senior Fellow) from the University of California, Davis, USA. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Jan-Otmar Hesse and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Egger, he will initiate a project in which he will use trade data to investigate the effects of the First World War on Germany's economic involvement in the world.
6. Prof. Dr. Markus Stock (Senior Fellow) from the University of Toronto, Canada. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropik, the literary scholar will examine the entanglements of humans with the underground in medieval and early modern German literature.
7. Prof. Dr. Eyal Winter (Senior Fellow) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Fabian Herweg and Prof. Dr. Stefan Napel, he will focus on incentive mechanisms for social networks.
8. Dr. Matthias Zußner (Junior Fellow) from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Christoph Krönke, he plans to establish a coherent doctrine for the EU Digital Single Market Law.