Field of research:
Social Sciences

Planned research project:
Mobile Minds in a Post-Pandemic World: Automatization Processes and Researcher; Mobility at Research Infrastructures

Keywords: 
Research Infrastructures, Researcher Mobility, Synchrotron Radiation Sources, Research Policy

German host institution:
Universität Bonn

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Lund University School of Economics and Management

Field of research:
Philosophy

Research interests:
Kantian studies, epistemology, theories of reasoning

Planned research project:
“Kantian Models of Reasoning: Towards a Unified Account of Doxastic Attitudes and Rational Inferences”
The project aims to provide a reconstruction of Kant’s theory of inferences and doxastic attitudes towards the cognitive contents of judgments, in order to outline a unified “network” of inferential connections and attitudes starting from his logic and epistemology. The methodological approach adopted in the project takes a joint assessment of Kant's pure general logic, his doctrine on logical modality, and his theory of assent to be capable to display in full Kant's theory of reasoning. Said interpretive line is innovative in that it involves disparate topics in Kant's theory of rationality and it combines them in an integrated approach to reasoning. Moreover, the resulting models would display the potential to offer a promising contribution to contemporary debates on the normative status of logic and the epistemology of reasoning.

Keywords: 
Kant, doxastic attitudes, rationality, inferences, modality, reasoning

German host institution:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)

Field of research:
Peace and Conflict Studies

Planned research project:
Peacekeeping Dynamics and Local Support - Mining and Analyzing Tweets from Conflict Countries

Keywords: 
UN Peacekeeping Operations, Peacekeeping Dynamics, Legitimacy of UN, Peacekeeper Misconducts

German host institution:
Hertie School

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Uppsala University (Sweden)

Field of research: 
Latin American Studies

Research interests: 
Cognitive Semantics, Metaphor analysis, Discourse analysis (with regard to language ideologies)

Planned research project: 
Metaphorical framing of the concept of mestizaje in Latin American and Caribbean essays in the 20th century

Keywords: 
mestizaje, metaphor, discourse, Hispanic American essay, 20th century

German host university: 
University of Siegen 

Host during the mobility phase: 
The University of Texas at Austin

Field of Research: 
History and Environmental Humanities

Research Interests: 
Environmental History, Animal Studies, Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Historical Geography, Border Studies

Planned Research project:
The elephant and the tsetse fly: Animal crossings in a Southern African borderland, c.1920-2000

Abstract: 
My project deploys a multi-species, more-than-human environmental history approach to investigate how changing (post-)colonial borders interact and redefine species boundaries, conviviality and hierarchies. To do so, I will examine historical cross-border movements of two specific species – elephants and tsetse flies – and how governments, conservation organizations and local people produced knowledge of and established control over such cross-border animal movements. The project will focus on the border region of Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia in the 20th century, where borders have turned from loosely defined boundaries of colonial influences, to being closely controlled and militarized cold war borders, and eventually to forming part of one of the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world today, the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). The project will focus on two species, that both have been of central concern to colonial and postcolonial governments throughout the 20th century: the elephant, one of the flagship animals of Southern African wildlife conservation, and the tsetse fly, a species that transmit human and animal diseases. 
The project follows two core fields of investigation: 1) to retrace historical cross-border movements of animals, particularly in the light of current debates about the re-opening of wildlife corridors and the ongoing conflicts around (veterinarian) border regimes; 2) to investigate how the control of borders and cross-border movements of human and non-human animals was interlinked with the establishment and definition of hierarchies of and between different species – from pests and vermin, like the tsetse fly, to royal game and charismatic animals, like elephants. 

Keywords: 
Multispecies Histories; Border Regimes; Southern Africa; Critical Animal Studies; Wildlife Corridors; Militarized Conservation; Vermin Control

German host institution: 
University of Cologne, Global South Studies Centre (GSSC)

Host institution during the mobility phase: 
University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC) and University of Botwana, Okavango Research Institute Maun (ORI)

Field of research:
Classical German Philosophy, Contemporary Critical Theory

Research interests:
Hegel’s philosophy; relationship between Kant and Hegel; metaphilosophy; critical theory; social criticism; critical pedagogy; critical race theory. 

Planned research plan:
“Critique, Right and Action: A New Epistemological Approach in Hegel’s Logic”

My research focuses on the problem of understanding the dynamic of the cultural forms that imbue individuals and social institutions, and on the possibility to act upon them by engaging in forms of critique. The general aim of my research is to forge a new epistemological model able to incorporate under-representative perspectives and to hold an educative and emancipatory task. With my research, I intend to offer a contribution in rethinking, via Hegel’s philosophy, what it means to work with theory and how concretely a theory can be an agent of change. My research is structured into two main parts. In the first part, I focus on Hegel’s logic, providing a reading of the role of Hegel’s logic in terms of critical education based on the link between theoretical and practical aspects in his philosophy. In the second part, I outline Hegel’s idea of critical theory, and I place Hegel’s idea of critical theory within the interdisciplinary debate on the epistemological modes of contemporary critical social and human sciences, with particular focus on critical pedagogy and critical race theory.

German Host Institution:
Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Philosophie) 

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Boston University (Department of Philosophy)

Website:
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/GiovannaLuciano

Field of research:
Slavic Literatures, General and Comparative Literary Studies, Literary Theory

Planned research project:
Precarious modernists. (Re)constructing "young women" movement in Habsburg-Slavic small literatures

Keywords: 
Central Europe, modernism, women's writing, Slavic literature, Habsburg Empire, Austria-Hungary, young movement, fin-de-siècle, transnational, small literature

German host institution:
Universität Oldenburg

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Sorbonne University

Field of research: 
History, African studies

Research Interests: 
History of Africa, (post-)colonial societies, global social history, history of the Mediterranean, labour history

Planned Research project:
Unlike studies that focus on commercial European elites in the maritime world, my research on African maritime workers in the French and Belgian empires (1880s-1960s) adopts a neglected perspective that subverts narratives of early globalization as an age of borderless migration, mobility and circulation. I trace the biographies of dockers and seafarers within urban and maritime networks, analysing how they moved back and forth not only between docks and decks, but also between different fields of labour. The central thesis is that the (im-)mobility of these workers reveals their highly contested room for manoeuvre, as contingent upon the constraints, power relations and exclusion characteristic of the imperial world. 

Keywords: 
maritime labour, Africa, French empire, Belgian empire, port cities, oceans, colonialism

German host institution: 
Modern History, University of Konstanz

Host institution during the mobility phase: 
CNRS, Institut des mondes africains (IMAF), France

https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/africa/africa/history/staff/daniel-toedt

Field of research:
Animal Production

Planned research project:
Bison – intersection of food sovereignty and sustainability

Keywords: 
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge; consumer expectations; meat quality; life cycle assessment

German host institution:
Uni Göttingen

Host institution during the mobility phase:
AAFC-Lacombe Research Centre

Field of Research: 
Geosciences

Research Interests: 
Remote Sensing, GNSS Reflectometry, land-atmosphere interaction, hydroclimate, Earth system modeling

Planned Research project: 
Water Stress Monitoring using GNSS Reflected Signals (Warm-Green)

Keywords: 
drought, water stress, vegetation water content, GNSS Reflectometry

German host institution: 
Technische Universität Berlin

Link: 
Staff: GFZ (gfz-potsdam.de)

 

Field of research:
Mathematics, Quantum Learning

Planned research project:
Complexity of Quantum Machine Learning

Keywords: 
quantum machine learning, parametrized quantum circuits, sample complexity, computational complexity, quantum data, interactive verification

German host institution:
FU Berlin, Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Caltech, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter

Field of research:
Aquatic Ecology

Planned research project:
Understanding megafaunal links between terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems (MEGALINKS)

Keywords: 
biodiversity, conservation, megafauna, restoration, rewilding, semiaquatic

German host institution:
FU Berlin

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Aarhus University

Field of research:
Solid-State Physics

Planned research project:
Ternary organic solar cells employing novel liquid crystals

Keywords: 
organic solar cells, liquid crystals, non-fullerene acceptors, morphology

German host institution:
Universität Potsdam

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Field of research:
Inorganic Chemistry

Planned research project:
Versatile All-Inorganic Perovskite-Perovskite Heterostructures to Reduce Open-Circuit Voltage and Fill Factor losses in Silicon-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells (VIP-TSCs)

Keywords: 
Inorganic perovskite heterostructures, non-radiative losses, tandem solar cells, machine learning, stability, high efficiency

German host institution:
Universität Köln

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Basque Foundation for Science

Field of research:
Mathematics

Planned research project:
SPECTRAL THEORY OF HARDY OPERATORS WITH COMPLEX POTENTIALS

Keywords: 
Hardy inequality, fractional Laplace, fractional Schodinger operator, spectral theory of

German host institution:
TU Braunschweig

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Osaka University

Country:
Germany

Field of research:
Electrochemistry

Research interests:
Charged interfaces, energy storage technologies, electrocatalysis, batteries, gas diffusion electrodes

Planned research project: 
Implementation of an electrochemical system for high rate redox-mediated N2 reduction to NH3

The proposed research project focuses on the development of an efficient electrochemical system for the N2 reduction reaction (NRR) to NH3 under non-aqueous conditions. The project will make use of a redox-mediated pathway involving Li as a reducing agent for N2 and an additional molecular proton shuttle for the protonation of Li3N, which is formed as an intermediate in the reaction to NH3. 
In the initial phase of the project, research at Monash University will focus on identifying suitable measurement techniques to accurately quantify the NH3 produced in the NRR. Once a suitable set of measurement techniques has been identified, the project will focus on electrochemical NRR testing. Here, correlations of NH3 yield with the type of proton donor used and the nature of the non-aqueous electrolyte will be investigated. For an ideal combination of electrolyte and proton donor, the influence of the operating parameters (temperature, concentration, pressure) will be tested to enable further optimisation of the NH3 yield. 
In the final phase of the project conducted at Technische Universtität Berlin, the common set of appropriate components and conditions will be implemented in an advanced cell geometry using gas diffusion electrodes and continuous introduction of reactants to enable a continuous operation at high reaction rates. Overall, the project aims at the technological advancement of NRR as an energy storage technology.

Keywords:
N2 reduction reaction; electrolysis; electrochemical energy storage

German host institution: 
Technische Universität Berlin

Host institution during the mobility phase: 
Monash University
 

Field of Research: 
Geosciences/Earth Sciences

Research interests:
Active Tectonics, Earthquake cycle deformation processes, Numerical Modelling, Geodesy

Planned research project: 
‘Transient seismic and aseismic slip interactions within the earthquake cycle on vertically segmented subduction systems’ – AENAOS
An increasing body of evidence suggests that the upper section of the plate-interface along active subduction systems, which is the locus of the largest earthquakes on Earth, often splays up-dip into one or more thrust-faults to form a coherent fault system within the overriding plate. Elastic strain is thus accumulated (and released) across this multi-fault system interdependently, with earthquake activity switching between the plate-interface and its splays faults over timescales of decades to thousand years. While most strain is released within this zone during large-magnitude (M>7) earthquakes, aseismic slow-slip events (SSEs) have also been identified to operate over time intervals of days to years, redistributing the subduction-related strain and thereby triggering or delaying earthquake rupture. Although crucial, the impact of fault interactions and of deformation partitioning (seismic vs. aseismic) on the transient nature of the earthquake-cycle within a plate-interface zone is poorly explored. Here, we propose to focus on the island of Crete at the southern Hellenic Subduction System (HSS), a unique natural laboratory in the eastern Mediterranean where interseismic elastic fault interactions have been detected within the plate-interface zone, to quantitatively constrain the interplay between seismic and aseismic deformation and assess their impact on subduction seismogenesis. To achieve this we will use a multidisciplinary dataset that includes a dense network of permanent GNNS stations, normal fault-slip data, uplifted paleoshorelines and analysis of instrumental/historic seismicity that collectively span timescales that range from minutes to ~50 thousand years. The results are expected to advance our understanding of the transient nature of subduction deformation globally.

Keywords: 
subduction, mega-earthquakes, slow-slip, slip interactions, transient deformation, GNSS

German host institution: 
Technical University of Berlin

Host institution during the mobility phase: 
National Observatory of Athens, Greece

Field of research:
electromagnetic processing of materials

Research interests:
Electromagnetic casting of aluminum and magnesium alloys; Solidification processing；Electromagnetic stirring; Electromagnetic pump；Transmission phenomenon and numerical simulation；I have the ambition to further develop the potential application of electromagnetic technology in material processing.

Planned research project:
Melt Flow Control and Crystal Morphology Modification of a Directionally Solidifying Alloy under a Pulsed Electromagnetic Field

Aluminium alloys are in principle infinitely recyclable, and recycling can reduce resource consumption and carbon emissions. However, recycling aluminium is still a technologically challenging process due to the accumulation of tramp elements at each remelting cycle. The tramp elements (Fe) and alloying elements (Si, Cu, Zn, Mg) are no longer considered valuable elements, which tend to segregate during solidification and precipitate into harmful intermetallic compounds even at small volume fractions to downgrade the material properties. A pulsed electromagnetic field is a solution to control elemental segregation during solidification to manipulate impure elements into fine, isotropic microstructures rather than naturally occurring coarse and brittle compounds. To this end, it is critical to advance our understanding of mass transport in the solid-liquid interface and segregation behavior under an electromagnetic field. In this proposal, a complete understanding of the factors controlling solute migration and crystal growth at the solidification front will be developed by using numerical modelling, an in situ X-ray radiography method and a synchrotron radiation facility to investigate the dynamics of metal manufacturing processes and improve metal recyclability. With an update of new manufacturing technologies, pulsed electromagnetic field control metal solidification is expected to provide a new possibility for the microstructure control of emerging manufacturing fields, such as metal 3D printing and high-purity alloy preparation.

Keywords：
Solidification, Pulsed electromagnetic field, Crystal growth, Segregation

German host institution:
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf(HZDR)；Technical University Dresden（TUD）

Host institution during the mobility phase:
University of Greenwich, UK

Field of research:
Medical engineering / Computer science

Research interests: 
Machine learning, biomedical signal processing, medical data science

Planned research project:

DIAMond - diabetes type 1 management with personalized recommendation using
data science

Diabetes is an overwhelming disease influencing directly more than 422 million people worldwide who are living with diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is the most severe form of the disease. The management of type 1 diabetes is especially difficult for young children and adolescents. Additionally, the most feared complication of type 1 diabetes – hypoglycemia – might occur after several hours, for example during night.
The DIAMond project will address the personalized management of type 1 diabetes using data science and machine learning to gain insights into the problem of hypoglycemia. Data from continuous glucose sensors and wearable devices for continuous monitoring of heart rate, accelerometry, and further physiological parameters from previous studies will be used to advance personalized treatment recommendations. Ground truth data of doctors and carers consists of insulin doses, carbohydrate intake, and time and type of activity. Within the DIAMond project, novel machine learning algorithms will determine the probability of the occurrence of hypoglycemia. Exploratory analysis of the physiological time series will result in the most predictive features building the base for the personalized treatment recommendations.

Keywords:
Recommender systems; multiple regression; exploratory physiological time series analysis; type 1 diabetes management; wearables; 

German host institution:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

Host during the mobility phase:
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Website:
https://www.mad.tf.fau.de/person/heike-leutheuser/

Field of research:
Tax Law; Tax Policy; Corporate Governance; Comparative Corporate Law.

Planned research project:
"Are big firm control and ownership structures crucially shaped by entwined fiscal policies?"

Keywords: 
Corporate governance; Corporate ownership structure; Concentrated family ownership; Tax policy; Income taxation; Capital gain taxes; Inheritance taxes.

German host institution:
Universität Hamburg

Host institution during the mobility phase:
Oxford University

Field of Research: 
Economic & Social History / Development Economics

Research interests: 
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the interconnections between Economic History and Long-run Development. I am particularly involved with the finding and collection of new historical data and sources, including the fomenting of new local archives whose material might be used for hypotheses testing in Economic History. These interests have leaned me towards the fields of Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage preservation. My academic specialization, in turn, is in labor history, contract theory, education history, and the history of international migration since the nineteenth century. My research is centered in Brazil with a comparative focus to other Latin American countries, but I am currently interested in expanding comparative analyses to Sub-Saharan African countries with which Brazil was connected via the history of slavery. 

Planned research project: 
“Keeping up with the Joneses… or with the Ottos and Antonios? Assessing productivity, daily nutrition, and health inequalities in a Brazilian plantation (1850-1950)”. 
Inequality of opportunities is a pervasive feature of Latin American history, with various deleterious consequences for contemporary socioeconomic outcomes. Assessing the mechanisms of inequality perpetuation requires the discovery and collection of new sources for data that are missing in official statistical records. This project will take a step forward in filling such gap by exploring the data from a recently created archive at Ibicaba farm, one of Brazil’s most important plantations of the nineteenth century. The goal is to transcribe and analyze ca. 30,000 pages of historical accounting ledgers that contain data on various categories of laborers with diverse backgrounds – from European immigrants to ex-enslaved Afro-Brazilians, and free Brazilians – for the period 1850-1950. This archive is unique in that it provides almost daily data on consumption of basic consumables in the storehouse of the first Brazilian plantation to ever experiment with immigrant bonded laborers in the early stages of the Brazilian transition from slavery. By categorizing laborers according to ethnolinguistic origins, demographic characteristics, and professions, this project inquires, in three interconnected papers, how systematic were their differences in (1) labor productivity and remuneration; (2) income availability, nutrition, and access to basic consumables; and (3) morbidity and access to health services. The project aims to provide a methodological contribution to the use of historical microdata in assessing metrics of living standards in the long-run. As such, the research proposed here will not only use an innovative source from a unique archive, but it will also discuss the potentialities of applying similar procedures for other regions and periods. The project is a cooperation between the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen and the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), thus promoting the exchange of expertise on quantitative economic history, assessments of long-run development, and new projects in Digital Humanities between Germany and the U.S. 

Keywords: 
New Economic History; Development Economics; Inequality; Living standards; Economic wellbeing; Labor productivity; Nutrition; Health services; Plantations; Coffee economy; Slavery; Immigration; Latin America; Brazil

German host institution: 
Chair of Economic History, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Host institution during the mobility phase: 
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)