Alumni - Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe

Dr. Eva Buddeberg

JQYA Fellow 2018

Sabbatical Fellowship Award

Research area: Political Science

Research focus: French philosophy and phenomenology, social and political philosophy, normative ethics/moral philosophy, methodology, critical theory, philosophy of language.

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Dr. Tomás Cano

JQYA Fellow 2020

Sabbatical Fellowship Award

Research area: Social Sciences

Research focus: His project investigates family polarization and its relation with the diverging skill developments of children in Germany. Children in families from the lower-class are facing higher prevalence of critical life events. In addition, once they suffer these events, they also have more negative consequences. On the contrary, children from the upper-class have less prevalence of critical life events and their penalties are smaller. One key reason behind differences in prevalence and penalties are parental compensations: upper-class families follow strategies to protect and invest in their children. But what exactly families do to make a difference in their level of resilience is a black box. This project aims to uncover this black box, studying how parenting strategies of compensation vary by social class, and how they affect child development.

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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sandra Eckert

JQYA Fellow 2018

Sabbatical Fellowship Award

Research area: Social Sciences

Research focus: In her research, Sandra studies issues related to European integration, comparative public policy and international political economy.

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Dr. Federico L.G. Faroldi

International Academy Program Fellow

I am a researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Ghent University, where I direct a three-year project. I was recently awarded with a Lise Meitner prize by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) for a project on normative language.

E-Mail: federico.faroldi@ugent.be
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Project

I study normativity and normative phenomena with formal methods coming from mathematics, decision and game theory, and philosophy.
My research interests are in logic (esp. deontic and modal, algebraic semantics), metaphysics (hyperintensionality, supervenience), metaethics (reasons) and philosophy of law (responsibility). My current research is on a hyperintensional theory of normative phenomena, on identity and indiscernibility in higher-order languages, and on the scale of moral adjectives.

Dr. Nadine Flinner

JQYA Fellow 2019

Academy Fellowship Award

Research area: Bioinformatics

Research focus: Understanding the correlation between cell morphology, function and the underlaying molecular features. To link different features to morphology deep learning and quantitative image segmentation are used.

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Dr. Jasmin Kim Hefendehl

Group Leader Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences

JQYA Member 2018, Emmy-Noether Programme

Research area: Neurovascular Disorders

Research focus: Alzheimer’s Disease as well as vascular cognitive impairment are major health problems on our society. In fact, up to 80% of all dementia cases present themselves in a co-morbid manner with both AD and vascular cognitive impairment present in the patient. Hence, we are conducting basic research on the coocurrence of the two diseases to investigate underlying mechanisms and potential biomarkers. The neurovascular unit consist of multiple different cells that work in close coordination to regulates blood flow and blood brain barrier integrity and is of particular interest to us, as it is a common target in both diseases.

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Dr. Benesh Joseph

Group Leader

JQYA Member 2018, Emmy-Noether Programme

Research area: • Membrane transport mechanism • Membrane biogenesis and • In-situ / cellular structural biology

Research focus: The survival of bacterial pathogens requires several membrane-embedded heterooligomeric macromolecular machines. Many of them are potential targets for novel antibiotics to combat the multiple drug resitance. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we characterize the structural transitions, conformational equilibria, and the thermodynamic parameters to elucidate the mechanistic basis of their function.

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Dr. Philipp Dominik Keidl

JQYA Fellow 2020

Academy Fellowship Award

Research area: Film and Media Studies

Research focus: Philipp’s current research focuses on fan cultures and their production of nonfiction media. This includes fan-made documentaries, podcasts and blogs on issues such as film and media history, the justice system and the environmental crisis. Moreover, his writing and teaching engages with research-creation as a critical and pedagogical method in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dr. Daniel Merk

JQYA Fellow 2018

Academy Fellowship Award

Research area: Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research focus: Daniel’s research focuses on the medicinal chemistry of nuclear receptor ligands, multi-target drug design and natural product inspired drug discovery.

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Dr. Muriel Moser-Gerber

JQYA Fellow 2019

Sabbatical Fellowship Award

Research area: Ancient History

Research focus: social memories in the Greek cities of Achaea during late Hellenistic times and the early Empire (100 BC to AD 100) and changes under the influence of Rome. Muriel is also interested in political scandals in Roman culture. General topics are the construction and exercise of political power and imperial authority; uses of the past, social memory; taxation, administration and law; epigraphy and prosopography.

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Dr. Torben Riehl

JQYA Fellow 2019

Academy Fellowship

Research area: Marine Geobiodiversity Research

Research focus: In his research Torben investigates the origins of the deep-sea biodiversity, especially the evolution of seafloor-inhabiting crustaceans. He is particularly interested in historical and ongoing colonization and distribution-range shifts, the drivers of diversification, and the ecological drivers of coexistence at depths > 3500 m (abyssal and hadal zones). Torben‘s current projects are dedicated to the influence of seafloor topography on biogeography, population differentiation and speciation as well as the effects of habitat heterogeneity on abyssal biodiversity.

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Dr. Hanieh Saeedi

JQYA Fellow 2018

Academy Fellowship Award

Research area: Marine Zoology

Research focus: understanding the driving ecological and evolutionary process which shape the biodiversity patterns and biogeography of the marine species (shallow and deep-sea), and also in predicting how species richness and distribution ranges will shift under future climate change.

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