Dr. Bastian Mei It is a great pleasure to succeed in obtaining the Gateway Fellowship in such a competitive process. This fellowship enables me to develop my own research profile by conducting an…

Dr. Eva-Maria Roelevink Cartels were up until 1945 a legal and normal form of business cooperation in many countries, which did not just yield regional and national cartels but represented a way to…

Dr. Sebastian Otten Prenatal and early-life conditions affect health not only at birth and during infancy, but also throughout life. The identification of the causal relationship between these…

Dr. Daniela Nordzieke How does a pathogen specifically detect its host? What molecules serve thereby as signals? And how are these signals transformed into a specific behavioral change of the…

Dr. Volker Jaedicke During my Gateway Fellowship I will stay in Prof. Laura Wallers group at the University of California in Berkeley. During this time I will further develop a new kind of…

Dr. Alberto Battistel Pollution, global warming, nuclear power phase-out, and shortage of fossil fuels push toward a suitable and environmentally friendly energy source. However, renewable sources,…

Dr. Christina Gonzalez Fernandez de Liencres Schizophrenia is a devastating disorder that affects about 1% of the population. There is a clinical state before full onset schizophrenia, called…

Dr. Aychluhim D. Damtew Among the major requirements to understand the quantity and also quality of groundwater, a resource that support billions around the globe, measurement and modelling of…

Dr. Christian Wiktor Miniaturization and nanotechnology are common in our day and age. In scientific research there are two dominant questions when it comes to nanotechnology: How do we arrange…

Dr. Kristina Elisabeth Overkamp Conventional cancer therapy such as radiation or chemotherapy affects not only malignancies, but also normal tissues and is therefore usually accompanied by intense…