Fellows
Current Fellows
Prof. Christopher Sims
Associate Professor of the Practice at the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, NC, U.S.A
Research interests
Photography, transnationalism, the military, American studies and museum studies
Project Proposal
The America-Bavaria Military Experience: A Visual Archive of Transnational Contact Zones
Education
MFA Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, U.S.A.
MA Visual Communication, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
BA History, Duke University, U.S.A.
German Studies and Documentary Film, University of Würzburg, Germany
Fellowship
6 months, February - July 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies
Contact details
E-mail address:
csims@duke.edu
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Dr. Gianluca Grimalda
Honorary Research Fellow, South East Technological University of Waterford, Ireland
Research interests
Social Cohesion, Inequality, Migration, Experimental economics
Project Proposal
Does greater integration into markets make people more or less tolerant of inequality? Experimental evidence from Papua New Guinea. Attitudes towards corruption and policies in small-scale societies
Education
PdD in Economics, University of Southampton, England
BA in Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Italy
Fellowship
6 months, January - June 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Prof. Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff
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Dr. Oxana Karnaukhova
Affiliated Researcher and Lecturer, University of Passau
Research interests
International relations, the anthropology of geopolitics, comparative regionalism
Project Proposal
Problematising the Strategic Sovereignty Narratives in EU Foreign Policy: between the Real and the Imagined
Education
PhD (Candidate of Science), Rostov State University, Russia
Professional Diploma in Psychology, Rostov State University, Russia
Specialist Diploma in History, Rostov State University, Russia
Fellowship
6 months, December 2023 - May 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Prof. Dr. Daniel Göler
Prof. 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
PhD 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
MA Journalism, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
BA Journalism, Mariupol State University, Mariupol, Ukraine
Fellowship
12 months, October 2022 - March 2023 & October 2023 - March 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region
Contact details
E-mail address: melnyk04@ads.uni-passau.de
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Prof. Dr. Germano Glufke Reis
Professor and Coordinator of the SfoodLab (Sustainable Food Value Chains Laboratory) at the Federal University of Parana, School of Management, Brasil
Research interests
Global value chains; sustainable global value chains; cultivated meat (cell-based meat) value chain; alternative protein value chains
Project Proposal
Disruptive innovation and “hybrid” products: an economic perspective of the disruptive potential of different forms of cultivated (cell-based) meats
Education
PhD in Business Administration, University of São Paulo
MBA (AACSB, Equis, and AMBA accredited), Fundação Getulio Vargas’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration
BA in Psychology, University of Brasilia
Fellowship
2 months, October 2023 & March 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Bioeconomy Economics Junior Research Group
Contact details
E-mail address:
glufkereis@ufpr.br
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Dr. Diana Mistreanu
Guest postdoctoral lecturer and researcher, University of Szeged, Hungary
Research interests
Cognitive literary studies, cognitive narratology, medical humanities, French and Francophone contemporary literature, indigenous Canadian literatures
Project Proposal
What Is It Like to Be a Migrant? Emotion and Inner Experience in Shumona Sinha’s Migrant and Refugee Narratives
Education
PhD in French literature/cognitive literary studies, University of Luxembourg and Université Paris-Est Créteil
MA in in French and Francophone Literature, Université Paris-Est Créteil
MA in French Literature and Culture, University of Bucarest
BA in in French and English Language and Literature, University Lucian Blaga, Sibiu (Romania)
Fellowship
6 months, May - July 2023 & January - March 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf
Professorship of Romance Literature and Culture with a focus on France
Contact details
E-mail address: diana.mistreanu21@gmail.com
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Professor of English and American Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.
Research interests
Migration Studies, Border Studies, Whiteness Studies, Mass Media, Climate Migration
Project Proposal
Inequality, the Welfare State, and the Racialization of Post-Soviet Migrants in Germany and the United States
Education
PhD in English, University of Delaware
BA in Applied Linguistics, University of Leipzig
Fellowship
3 months, June - July 2023 & June - July 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Professorship for American Studies/Cultural and Media Studies
Contact details
E-mail address: Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu
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Future Fellows
We look forward to welcoming the following Fellows in the future:
Prof. Dr. Seyyedahmad Javadi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at 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
Chair of Computer Networks and Computer Communications
Contact details
E-mail address:
sajavadi@aut.ac.ir
Further Details
Prof. Dr. Jacek Rak
Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Communications at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Research interests
Routing, design and analysis of communication networks with a particular focus on resilience and dependability of emerging communication technologies, including future Internet and mobile communications
Project Proposal
Disaster-resilience of Interdependent Networked Systems
Education
DSc degree (habilitation) in telecommunications, Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland
PhD degree in computer science, Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland
MSc degree in computer science, Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland
Fellowship
2 months, January - March 2024
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Computer Networks and Computer Communications
Contact details
E-mail address: jrak@pg.edu.pl
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Prof. Dr. Alina Kasinska
Professor at the Department of Engineering, Technology and Economics at the Pylyp Orlyk International Classical University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Research interests
Regional Economy, Natural reserve fund, Developed productive forces, Organizational mechanism for managing protected areas, Organizational adaptation, The role of territories and objects of the nature reserve fund in ensuring the integrated development of the region
Project Proposal
Organizational Adaptation to sustained cosmological Crisis - Extension of a longitudinal study of nature parks in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and the (de)occupation since February 2022
Education
PhD Mykolayiv National Agrarian University, Ukraine - Thesis title: Formation and use of territories of the nature reserve fund: theory and practice of implementation
PhD International University of Business and Law, Kherson, Ukraine - Thesis title: Regional Aspects of Rational Agricultural Land Use (on the Example of Mykolaiv Region)
MA Mykolayiv State Agrarian University, Ukraine - speciality "Management of organizations" and qualified as an economist-manager
Fellowship
6 months, July - December 2023
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Strategic Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Further details
Prof. Dr. Hoda Zobeiri
Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran
Research interests
Development Economics, Health Economics, Institutional Economics, Economy of Iran
Project Proposal
Macroeconomic Conditions and Population Health in Iran
Education
Ph.D. in Development Economics, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran.
Fellowship
2 months, October - December 2023
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Development Economics
Contact details
E-mail address: h.zobeiri@umz.ac.ir
Further Details
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.
Research interests
Nonparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Panel Data Econometrics, Applied Microeconometrics, Economics of Education
Project Proposal
Dynamic nonparametric multidimensional panel data models with application to migration flows across Europe
Education
PhD in Economics, University of California, Riverside
MA in Economics, University of California, Riverside
BA in Economics, University of California, Davis
AA in Mathematics, Sacramento City College
Fellowship
2 months, June - July 2023
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
Contact details
E-mail address: djhender@cba.ua.edu
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Prof. Dr. Normann Witzleb
Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China & Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia
Research interests
Privacy law, data protection law, law and technology, comparative law, torts law, remedies
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
Education
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Australian National University
LL.B. degree at Murdoch University Perth
Doctoral degree (Dr. iur.) European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Second State Examination in Law
Legal traineeship (Referendariat), Court of Appeal Berlin, Germany
First State Examination in Law, University of Würzburg Law Faculty
Diploma in Legal Studies, King’s College London, England
Fellowship
2 months, June - July 2023
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Public Law, Media Law and Information Law
Further details
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller
Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Linguistics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Research interests
intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education
Project Proposal
Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation
Fellowship
1 month, May 2023
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of English Language and Culture
Further details
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
PhD 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
MA in Globalization and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark and Hamburg University, Germany
MA in International Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Fellowship
6 months, November 2022 - April 2023
Host at the University of Passau
Further details
Publications (related to PICAIS)
Research Paper: Digital Rights in Post-Coup Myanmar: Enabling Factors for Digital Authoritarianism
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
PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in 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
MA in Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
B Sc in University of Ghana, Legon– Ghana
Fellowship
6 months, April – September 2022
Host at the University of Passau
Chair of Development Economics
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