Dr. Sebastian Biba
JQYA Fellow 2020
Sabbatical Fellowship Award
Research area: Political Science
Research focus: China’s foreign policy and international relations; China’s international river politics; US-China-Europe triangular relations; responsibility in International Relations.
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Dr. Rikki Dean
JQYA Fellow 2020
Sabbatical Fellowship Award
Research area: Social Sciences
Research focus: His research combines democratic theory, public administration theory and empirical social science to understand issues in participatory governance. His current work is focused on: developing a systemic conception of democracy; evaluating participatory governance projects; understanding the opportunities for democratic innovation represented by new online technologies; and analysing preferences for democratic governance.
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Dr. Philipp Erbentraut
JQYA Fellow 2019
Sabbatical Fellowship Award
Research area: Political Sociology
Research focus: political parties, elites and parliaments; comparative politics; history of democracy; political ideas in Germany, Great Britain and USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Dr. Susanne Fehlings
JQYA Fellow 2020
Academy Fellowship Award
Research area: Ethnology
Research focus: The project investigates economic activities of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SMEs) such as bazaar and shuttle traders in post-Soviet Eurasia from a grassroots perspective. These activities are usually not or only partly regulated by state institutions and therefore classified as “informal”. They are shaped by social, cultural and political transformations that took and take place since the 1980s. In particular, I focus on the different forms of interethnic exchange between Armenian, Russian, Georgian and Chinese traders and businesspeople.
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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. 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. 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. Magnus Ressel
JQYA Fellow 2020
Academy Fellowship Award
Research area: Early Modern History
Research focus: Magnus’ research focusses on the transatlantic slave trade and its impact the European economic fabric. The concurrent rise of the ‘industrious revolution’ as well as a phenomenon that is best called ‘technological enlightenment’ during the 18th century are studied via the focus on specific key actors in on both sides of the Atlantic who were massively engaged in the transatlantic slave trade – and its undoing.
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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. Marco Tamborini
JQYA Fellow 2020
Academy Fellowship Award
Research area: History and Philosophy of Science
Research focus: His research focuses on the history and philosophy of biology from the 19th century onward. Tamborini is particularly interested in the history and philosophy of evolutionary morphology and paleontology, and in the history and philosophy of technoscience. In his current project, Tamborini radically reconstructs the history and theory of 20th and 21st century morphology as a practice and material circulation of techniques, methods, objects, people, and ideas.
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Dr. Camelia-Eliza Telteu
JQYA Fellow 2019
Academy Fellowship Award
Research area: Hydrology, Physical Geography
Research focus: impact of climate change on freshwater resources, floods, droughts, hydrological modelling, science communication.
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