Dr Nico Bast
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2024, Emmy Noether Program
Research area: Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy
Research focus: Predicting Mental Health Development in Children. Utilizing early markers that can be assessed in children to define risk trajectories of transdiagnostic psychopathology.
Prof. Dr. Greta Wagner
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2024, Emmy Noether Program
Research area: Cultural sociology
Research focus: In the context of the multiple crises of recent years, questions about who is granted solidarity and who is excluded from selective solidarities have become particularly dynamic. Greta’s group investigates the symbolic boundaries of helping, both in the practices of helping others and in discourses about helping, deserving help, and (exclusive) solidarities.
Prof. Dr Eric J. N. Helfrich
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2023, Emmy Noether Programme
Research area: Natural Product Genomics
Research focus: Development of machine learning-based genome mining algorithms for the targeted identification of non-canonical natural product biosynthetic pathways in bacterial genomes, and characterization of natural product pathways.
Prof. Dr Maxim Bykov
JQYA Member 2023, ERC Starting Grant
Science Funding Award
Research area: Chemistry at Extreme Conditions
Research focus: Maxim’s group employs high-pressure techniques such as laser-heated diamond anvil cells and large-volume multianvil presses to synthesize novel materials. Pressure serves as an invaluable tool for characterizing fundamental interactions and processes, as well as for unlocking the potential of unexpected chemical compounds. Analogous to the way pressure transforms graphite into diamond, high-pressure methods can be used to create new materials with ultra-high hardness, high energy density, and unconventional physical properties. Maxim is exploring a wide range of compounds including new nitrides, oxides, and carbides – virtually every class of compounds holds possibilities for new discoveries.
Dr. Elena Bykova
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2023, Emmy Noether Programme
Research area: High-pressure crystallography, chemistry and mineralogy
Research focus: Behaviour of matter at extreme conditions, such as high pressures and temperatures, e.g. chemical and structural transformations in materials related to deep interiors of Earth and extra-terrestrial rocky planets.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Eckart
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2023, ERC Starting Grant
JQYA Fellow 2022
Research area: Atomic Physics
Research focus: Sebastian is an experimental physicist and works in the field of atomic physics focusing on photo-ionization of single atoms and molecules by strong laser fields with tailored properties. Sebastian and his team use laser pulses with a duration on the order of a millionth of a billionth of a second (a femtosecond) and measure the produced particles (electrons and ions) in coincidence. Using this approach, Sebastian’s team investigates quantum phenomena such as tunneling, interference and entanglement on ultrafast time scales.
Dr. Anna Wanka
Science Funding Award
JQYA Member 2022, Emmy Noether Programme
Research area: Sociology of age and ageing
Research focus: Ageing and age constructions, social practices of un/doing age, life course transitions / retirement and the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing in a digitized world as well as ageing and space.