Fellows

The PICAIS welcomes two new Fellows from Ukraine and Thailand

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Olena Melnykova-Kurhanova from the National Aviation University Kyiv and Dr. Nwet Kay Khine from the Chulalongkorn University Bangkok as guests in the PICAIS Research-in-Residence Fellowship. Both will be guests at the University of Passau for 6 months starting in October 2022 and November 2022, respectively.

Dr. Olena Melnykova-Kurhanova

Associate Professor of Journalism Chair at the National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Research interests

Public communication, social communication, social media, fact-checking, media literacy, journalistic genres, journalism, speechwriting, information wars, political journalism, alternative media, strategic communications, human rights journalism, ethics of journalism, gender in mass media

Project Proposal

Public Communication in a City under Attack: Russia’s Informational Influence on the Citizens of Mariupol

Education

Ph.D. in Social Communications, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine Thesis title: THE PECULIARITIES OF DISSIDENT COMMUNICATIONS IN UKRAINE SINCE 1960S TO THE BEGINNING OF 1990s

M.A. Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.

B.A. Journalism, Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine

Further details

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Fellowship

6 months, October 2022 - March 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Florian Toepfl

Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region

Dr. Nwet Kay Khine

Post-doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Social and Development studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand

Research interests

Authoritarianism, media system transformation and environmental politics and policies in transitional democracies

Project Proposal

The emergence of digital authoritarianism - Myanmar between Chinese and Russian influence - as a laboratory for a new regime type

Education

Ph.D. in Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand, Thesis title: Press Censorship in Myanmar From Colonial Days to Democratic Transition in The 21st Century

M.A in Globalization and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark and Hamburg University, Germany

M.A in International Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Further details

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Fellowship

6 months, November 2022 - April 2023

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar

Chair of Development Politics

Future Fellows

We look forward to welcoming the following Fellows in the future:

Dr. Diana Mistreanu

Guest postdoctoral lecturer and researcher, University of Szeged, Hungary

Project Proposal

What Is It Like to Be a Migrant? Emotion and Inner Experience in Shumona Sinha’s Migrant and Refugee Narratives

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

Professorship of Romance Literature and Culture with a focus on France

Further details

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Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Henderson

Professor of Economics and the J. Weldon and Delores Cole Faculty Fellow in the Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies in the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama, U.S.A.

Project Proposal

Dynamic nonparametric multidimensional panel data models with application to migration flows across Europe

Hosts at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Harry Haupt | Dr. Joachim Schnurbus

Chair of Statistics and Data Analytics | Computational Statistics and Mathematics Teaching Unit

Further details

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Dr. Normann Witzleb

Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China & Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia

Project Proposal

Privacy and data protection in relation to artificial intelligence technologies: Evaluating the potential and effect of EU legislative initiatives for the Asia-Pacific region

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Kai von Lewinski

Chair of Public Law, Media Law and Information Law

Further details

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Dr. Igor Babin

Associate Professor of Department of Public Law at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine

Project Proposal

An innovative human centered legal model of local taxes and fees for Ukraine

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Rainer Wernsmann

Chair of Constitutional, Administrative, Public Finance and Tax Law

Further details

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Prof. Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Professor of English and American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.

Project Proposal

Inequality, the Welfare State, and the Racialization of Post-Soviet Migrants in Germany and the United States

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Karsten Fitz

Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies

Further details

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Dr. Seyyedahmad Javadi

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Project Proposal

Towards Accountability in the use of Artificial Intelligence for Smart Grids: Concepts, Taxonomies, Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer

Chair of Computer Networks and Computer Communications

Former Fellows

Dr. Edward Asiedu

Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School (Development Finance Unit) and the Affiliate Faculty, Centre for Migration Studies (CMS)

Research interests

Behavioral and development economics, economics of crime and corruption, gender and small enterprise development, impact of culture and history on economic outcomes, agricultural economics

Project Proposal

The Effect of Poverty on Children’s Behaviour. Field Experiments in Ghanaian Villages

Education

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Development Economics, University of Göttingen, Germany, Thesis Title: Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

M. A., Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

B.Sc., University of Ghana, Legon– Ghana

Further details

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Fellowship

6 months, April – September 2022

Host at the University of Passau

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm

Chair of Development Economics