Some of the Fellows/Short-term Fellows are members of the following Focus groups:
* | Functional and Structural Constraints in theEvolution of Sensorimotor Networks |
** | Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information |
*** | Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology |
**** | Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication |
The language of the fellow's project indicates the language the fellow is working in.
| Bhargava, Rajeev |
Ph.D., Professor of Political Theory, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (Forms of Secularity Before Modern Secularism) Details |
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| Brown, Penelope |
Ph.D., Anthropology, Linguistics, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (Social Interaction and Conversation in Tzeltal Mayan) Details |
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| Catoni, Maria Luisa |
Dr., Professor of Iconography of Ancient Art, Università degli Studi di Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (The Disease of Women) Details |
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| Eisert, Jens |
Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Quantum Information Theory, University of Potsdam (Information, Coherence, Entanglement**) Details |
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| Elkana, Yehuda |
Ph.D., President and Rector (emer.), Central European University Budapest (The University of the 21st Century: Content and Curricula) Details |
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| Farge, Marie |
Dr. Dr., Mathematics and Physics, Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris (Wavelets and Turbulence) Details |
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| Fauser, Annegret |
Ph.D., Professor of Music, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Sounds of War: Music in America During World War II), Marie Curie Fellowship Details |
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| Gasparov, Boris |
Dr., Boris Bakhmeteff Professor of Russian and East European Studies, Columbia University, New York (Alexander Pushkin and the World of Early European Romanticism) Details |
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| Halberstam, Daniel |
Ph.D., Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and Director, European Legal Studies Program, The University of Michigan Law School (The Structure of Authority) Details |
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| Harari, Orna |
Ph.D., Philosophy, Tel Aviv University (Causality and Logical Derivation in Late Neoplatonism) Details |
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| Hochner, Binyamin |
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Comparative Evolutionary Analysis of the Organization and Function of the Neural System of the Octopus and the Implications in Relation to the Octopus' Unique Body Plan and Behavior*) Details |
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| Hoffmann-Riem, Wolfgang |
Dr. iur., Professor (emer.) of Public Law and Administrative Law, Universität Hamburg and Former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (Social Innovations and the Role of Law) Details |
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| Janik, Vincent M. |
Ph.D., Reader in Biology, University of St. Andrews (Reference and Vocal Learning in Animal Communication****) Details |
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| Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa |
Ph.D., Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University (Interiors at Risk: Spaces of the Self in Contemporary Art) Details |
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| Laubichler, Manfred D. |
Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Biology and History of Biology and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (Gene Regulatory Networks in Development and Evolution: Conceptual and Historical Reflections***) Details |
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| Leimar, Olof |
Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, Stockholms Universitet (The Evolution of Phenotypic Determination and the Principles of Adaptive Developmental Plasticity***) Details |
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| Linke, Angelika |
Dr. phil., Professor of Linguistics, Universität Zürich (Consumption and Communication: A Cultural History of Their Intertwinement) Details |
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| Lukes, Steven M. |
D. Phil., Professor of Sociology, New York University (Sociology of Morals) Details |
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| Mosebach, Martin |
Author, Frankfurt/Main (Writing a Novel) Details |
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| Nagarkar, Kiran |
Novelist, Mumbai ("The Broken Compass") Details |
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| Osborne, Tobias J. |
Ph.D., Physics, University of London (Simulation of Disordered Quantum Systems**) Details |
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| Page, Jr., Robert E. |
Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University (The Developmental Evolution of Division of Labor***) Details |
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| Pasemann, Frank |
Dr. rer. nat. habil., Extraordinary Professor of Theoretical Physics, Universität Osnabrück (Embodied Neural Locomotion Control*) Details |
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| Pias, Claus |
Dr. phil., Professor of the Epistemology and Philosophy of Digital Media, Universität Wien (Computer Simulation: A History of the Technics of Scientific Knowledge since 1945) Details |
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| Politis, Vasilis |
Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin (Aporia and the Demand for Definitions in Plato's Early Dialogues) Details |
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| Pollock, Sheldon |
Ph.D., William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Columbia University, New York (Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World) Details |
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| Puchner, Martin |
Ph.D., H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York (Plato's Shadows: An Essay on Theater and Philosophy) Details |
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| Schollwöck, Ulrich |
Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Classical Description of Quantum Mechanical Many-Body Systems**) Details |
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| Thomä, Dieter |
Dr. phil., Professor of Philosophy, Universität St. Gallen (Greed and Its Discontents: The California Gold Rush as a Key to Modernity) Details |
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| Tihanov, Galin |
Ph.D., D.Phil., Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History, The University of Manchester (The Post-Romantic Syndrome) Details |
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| Westbrook, Raymond |
Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (The Early History of Legislation) Details |
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| Wilkins, Adam S. |
Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, University of Cambridge (Making Faces: A History of the Human Face in Four Parts) Details |
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| Wolf, Harald |
Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Neurobiology, Universität Ulm (The Motor Control Network in Locust Flight - Segmental Organisation and Sensorimotor Interactions*) Details |
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| Yadav, Yogendra |
Senior Fellow, Political Science, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (Democratic Politics in Contemporary India) Details |
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| Zuberbühler, Klaus |
Ph.D, Professor of Psychology, University of St. Andrews (The Psychological Basis of Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication****) Details |
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Short-Term Fellows
| Amdam, Gro Vang |
Dr., Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience and Sociobiology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås (Life History "Ground Plans" in Social Insect Evo-Devo***) Details |
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| Appadurai, Arjun |
Ph.D., Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New School University, New York (Max Weber and the Spirit of Financialism) Details |
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| Asu-Garcia, Eva Liina |
Ph.D., Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu (Aspects of Estonian Intonation), Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Details |
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| Boo, Katherine |
Staff Writer, The New Yorker, Washington, DC ("On the Western Express") Details |
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| Brendel, Alfred |
Musician, Author, London (About Musical Interpretation) Details |
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| Dürr, Volker |
Ph.D., Biological Cybernetics, University of Bielefeld Details |
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| Eickelman, Dale F. |
Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations, Dartmouth College (Mainstreaming Islam: Taking Charge of the Faith) Details |
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| Fekete, Gyula |
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest (Liszt-Opera) Details |
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| Freedberg, David |
D.Phil. (Oxon), Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University, New York and Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Motion and Emotion in the History of Art) Details |
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| Harvey, Jonathan |
Ph.D., Professor (ret.) of Music, University of Sussex and Stanford University (Global Ethic: A Vision in Music) Details |
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| Hölldobler, Bert |
Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor (emer.) of Zoology, Biozentrum, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Foundation Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe (Developmental Evolution of a Superorganism***) Details |
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| Konrád, György |
Schriftsteller, Budapest Details |
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| Linksvayer, Timothy A. |
Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, Kobenhavns Universitet (Social Interactions and the Evolution of Complex Phenotypes***) Details |
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| Manolescu, Ion |
Ph.D., Associate Professor of Romanian Literature, Author, Universitatea din Bucuresti (Cognitive Science and Literature: What does the Mind See?), Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Details |
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| Pally, Marcia |
Ph. D., Professor of Multilingual Multicultural Studies, New York University (Separation of Church and State: An Argument From the Devout. A Case Study in America's Evangelical Communities) Details |
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| Plesu, Andrei G. |
Dr. Drs. h.c., Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Rector, New Europe College, Bucharest (Old Testament Cosmology from an Inter-Religious Perspective) Details |
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| Schiff, András |
Pianist, Professor of Music, Franz-Liszt-Musikakademie, Budapest and Hochschule für Musik and Theater München and Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Essays on Music) Details |
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| Schwander, Tanja |
Ph.D., Biology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby (Factors Affecting Caste Fate in Social Insects), short-term Fellow Details |
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| Twickel, Arndt von |
Neurocybernetics, Universität Osnabrück (Comparing Biological With Evolved Artificial Neural Networks in the Sensorimotor Loop*) Details |
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| Yakovenko, Sergiy |
Ph.D., Neuroscience, Université de Montréal (Neuro-Mechanical Synergies for Movement Control: Insights from Biomechanical and Control System Modelling*) Details |
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