Dr. Joshua Furnal is a researcher and lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Patrick's Pontificial University in Ireland. His research interests include systematic theology, tradition, freedom, identity, and the study of topics at the intersection of philosophy and theology, such as creation and redemption, and the social relevance of secularisation and religious education.
From May to July 2025, Dr. Furnal will be a visiting researcher at the Chair of Dogmatic Theology and Contemporary Theological Issues (Prof. Dr. Markus Weißer) on the topic of "Transforming Identities and Traditions in European Catholic Systematic Theology: A Comparative Study of the Eschatology of Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Rahner".
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Prof. Dr. Bettina Kemme from McGill University in Canada is now returning to Prof. Dr. Stefanie Scherzinger's Chair of Computer Science with a focus on scalable database systems for the second part of her fellowship after a successful first stay at the beginning of the year.
Professor Kemme's research project, entitled "Legal and Reproducibility Aspects of Sustainable Data Science Systems", continues to address the question of how data science and machine learning systems can be made more sustainable and reproducible.
We are delighted to continue this collaboration and welcome Professor Kemme back to Passau!