Funded Early Career Researchers
Early Career Researcher Mobility, Round I, September 2022
Sascha Riaz, Postdoctoral Prize Fellow (PPRF), Nuffield College, investigates how liberalizing labour market access for refugees affects natives’ immigration attitudes. Host: Prof. Anselm Hager, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Xavier Bach, Postdoctoral researcher at JRF Trinity College, examines heteroclisis (the mixing of inflection classes) as a repair for a phonological clash in French. Host: Prof. Sascha Gaglia, Freie Universität Berlin
Ingrid Schreiber, Doctoral student at Wadham College and the Faculty of History, Oxford, works on a project in intellectual history, which continues the work of the Oxford-Berlin Enlightenment Hub. Host: Tobias Rosefeldt, Humboldt-Unversität zu Berlin
Ignacio Juarez Martinez, Doctoral student at the Department of Biology, University of Oxford, develops a methodology to study animal behaviour in the wild using event cameras. Host: Guillermo Gallego, Technische Universität Berlin.
Sophia Rosa Mara Buck, Doctoral student in Medieval and Modern Languages (German Studies) at Oxford University, will visit two projects in Berlin: 1) Matthias Schwartz (ZfL, HU), Caroline Adler (HU), 2) Daniel Weidner (ZfL, HU, Halle). Her research investigates Walter Benjamin as intercultural mediator and critic.
Josh Hitt, Doctoral Student at the History Faculty at Oxford University, works on a project that aims to situate Medieval Greek storytelling in a global context. Host: Beatrice Gruendler, Freie Universität Berlin
Ana Victoria Lechuga-Vieco, Postdoctoral Researcher at The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS, University of Oxford, conducted collaborative experiments using the single-cell platform. Host: Katja Simon, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Clare Mulley, Doctoral student of Humanities at St. Hughs in Oxford, investigates the reception of Wagner’s Ring libretti in later literature, especially poetry. Host: Lukas Rösli, NordEuropa Institut, HU Berlin
Mariana Borsa, Postdoctoral Researcher on Integrative Biomedicine and Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, investigates how T cell diversity is established in immunity, through a mechanism called asymmetric cell division. Host: Katja Simon, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Early Career Researcher Mobility, Round II, 2023
From Berlin:
Théo Konc; TU Berlin, Faculty VII; Advancing Carbon Pricing
Miriam Fichtner; Charité, Institute for Experimental Neurology ; Optimisation of detection assays for autoantibodies in Myasthenia
Carina Fresemann; TUB, Faculty V, IWF, FG Industrial Information Technology; SustAIned-Twin
Lisa Memmeler; Freie Universität Berlin; AfterWords (Einstein-Project)
Luca Frepoli; Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft; Collecting Counterproofs. Surveying the print collections of John Talman and Francis Douce
Evelina Bazaeva; Centre for British Studies (Großbritannien-Zentrum); The Cinematic Poetics of British Women Novelists of the Interwar Period
Mats Küssner; Department of Musicology and Media Studies, HU Berlin; Altering entrenched socio-cultural beliefs through music: a novel use of emotional contagion
Alexandra Petukhova-Greenstein; Charité Universitätsmedizin - Berlin; Early detection of liver cancer using cell-free DANN
Andreas Kerschbaum; Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Philosophy ; Chinese philosophy and philological analysis
Livia Samson; Humboldt-University, Department of Philosophy; What (if anything) is wrong with the family?
Bettina Rentsch; FU Berlin, Faculty of Law; Comparative Theory of Shareholder Rights / Oxford Business Law Research Group
Johanna Nickels; FU Berlin, Faculty of Law (Criminal Law and Criminology); Southernising Criminology
Sarah von Westarp; TU Berlin, Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering (BVT); CrystalHE - Crystals of Hard-to-Express Enzymes
Niels Krausch; TU Berlin, Bioprocess engineering; OPAL - Orchestrating Pharmaceutical Process Development in an Automated Biolab
From Oxford:
Sascha Riaz; University of Oxford (Nuffield College); Do Judges Discriminate against Immigrants?
Klara Piletic; Integrative Biomedicine; Adipocyte autophagy in the control of obesity-induced inflammation
Christine Sheldon; Department of Politics and International Relations (UO); Research Training Group DYNAMICS
Hangjuan Ren; University of Oxford; In-situ spectroscopy of carbon dioxide reduction electrocatalysis
Ignacio Juarez Martinez; Department of Biology, University of Oxford; Science of Intelligence Project
Chang Ho Yoon; Big Data Institute, University of Oxford; Explainable machine learning to investigate tuberculosis transmission
Juan Neves-Sarriegui; History Faculty and Latin American Centre, University of Oxford; 'International Research Training Group "Temporalities of Future"'
Early Career Researcher Mobility, Round III, 2024
From Berlin:
Jana Ihlow; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Computational Tissue Imaging for Cell-Based Medicine
Sarah Westarp; Technische Universität Berlin; Crystal-HE (Crystals of Hard-to-express Enzymes)
Adrian Kind; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Philosophy and (Computational) Psychiatry: Building Interdisciplinary Bridges between Oxford and Berlin
Kristin Funke; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Optimising the control of synthetic engineered biosystems
Hakimeh Pourakbari Aslsardroud; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Dopaminergic modulation of beta activity and its lateralization in the stopping network in Parkinson’s Disease
Khulud Alsouleman; Technische Universität Berlin; Plastic to Power: Transforming Plastic Waste into Energy Solutions
Agata Konopka; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Investigating the role Oncostatin M in virus-induced lung inflammation
Amelie Kolandt; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Abortion Care in Germany
Leo Dyke Krüger; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; MR guided - stereotactic radioablation in patients with atrial fibrillation
Ana Karalashvili; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; FAMSIZEMATTERS
Mirjam Faissner; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; A public health ethics perspective on sex work regulation
Livia Samson; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; What (if anything) is wrong with the family?
From Oxford:
Leonardo Carella; University of Oxford, Department of Politics; Immigration Salience and Voter Socialisation
Martin Gädecke; University of Oxford, Department of Sociology, Nuffield College; Research Training Group “The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy" (DYNAMICS)
Radoslaw Kaleba; University of Oxford, MPLS, Department of Physics; Ultrafast absorption spectroscopy for investigation of exciton dynamics and processes in organic photovoltaic devices
Anastasia Hertanti Soeriyadi; University of Oxford, Department of Materials; Silicon bottom cell development for perovskite/Si tandem
Nico Munz; University of Oxford, Christ Church; Image Rights: the Legality of Late Medieval Facial
Representation
Esther Braun; University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy; Access to abortion care in Germany – the ‘medical-social indication’