Dr. Linda Leskau An observation of Disability Studies, which considers disability a cultural phenomenon, is that disabled figures have been in the focus of literary texts since antiquity. Despite…

Dr. Leonid Ryvkin The theme of my Gateway Fellowship is the investigation of multisymplectic manifolds under the mentorship of Prof. Frédéric Hélein at the Université Paris-Diderot. Paris in…

Dr. Leonie Kertess My GF project “Can Hydrogenase Mechanisms be Unified?“ is motivated by the persisting energy problem of our society. Currently, energy is mainly consumed from non-renewable fuels…

Dr. Martin Stacho Every day, our brain has to provide us information about ourselves and about people around us and somehow our brain has to navigate us to our daily targets. But how is this…

Dr. Jannis Köhler The ongoing trend towards miniaturization reflects the constant increase of performance and multifunction integration in technical systems and leads to new innovative technologies…

Dr. Patrick Friedrich The brain is the principle organ of all mental capacities, but despite the apparent unity of our mind, our cortex is split in two. Some cognitive processes such as language,…

Dr. Dong Hun Kim “The autobiography of a Shoah survivor: the case of Elie Wiesel” After finishing my Ph. D. studies, I began looking for a possibility to continue my research in (German)…

Dr. Alberto Ferrari “Surface Segregation in High Entropy Alloys” The efficient production of sustainable energy is one of the most important challenges of the next decade. Fuel cells, with higher…

Dr. Guido Löhr The term ‘commitment’ plays an increasingly important role in analyses of various linguistic phenomena from promises to modal expressions like ‘necessary’ or ‘possible’. However, it…

Dr. Raffael Beier In recent decades, many governments of developing countries have initiated large-scale housing and resettlement programmes to reduce the number of people living in slums. While…