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Incoming Fellows

Meet the new Fellows

The incoming fellows of AIAS

AUTUMN 2025

AIAS-AUFF Fellows - commencing 1 September 2025

  • Alejandro Esguerra, Faculty of Sociology, Working Group Political Sociology and Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Bielefeld University, Germany
    Project at AIAS: ‘Forming Plastic Expertise: Science-Policy Sites and International Treaty Making (FOPEX)’
  • Dario CampisiDepartment of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy
    Project at AIAS: ‘Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Templates for the Origin of Life?’
  • Darren Halpin, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
    Project at AIAS: ‘Organising the Present to Give Voice to the Future? Political Representation of Future Generations’
  • Elena Racheva, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK
    Project at AIAS: ‘War Without Peace: Analysing Russian Civil Militarization Propaganda and Hybrid Warfare’
  • Emily Cockayne, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, School of History and Ideas of Art, University of East Anglia, UK
    Project at AIAS: ‘Recreating historical non-synthetic plastics: relearning Victorian recycling for environmental good’
  • Federica Cavaletti, Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti", University of Milan, Italy
    Project at AIAS: ‘Improving Neurodiverse Cooperation in Academic Research: A Study on (Shared) Time Experience’
  • Kwadwo Opoku, Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
    Project at AIAS: ‘Sustainable Financing of Long-Term Care in Lower Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from Ghana’
  • Malene Friis Hansen, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA
    Project at AIAS: ‘Towards a Cultural Biology’
  • Nazik Ogretmen, Ocean and Climate Change Research Group, Center for Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal
    Project at AIAS: ‘Minimum Endmember of Paleo-salinity Spectrum from Subpolar and Equatorial Deep Ocean: DEEP’

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellow - commencing 1 September 2025

  • Alison Gerber, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
    Project: ‘Show & Tell: Representation, visualization, and evidence across epistemic cultures.’

Carlsberg Monograph Fellows - commencing 1 September 2025:

  • Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, School of Communication and Culture - Aesthetics and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Rhythms of Reading’
  • Christian Ulrik Andersen, School of Communication and Culture - Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Minor Tech’
  • Donna Briggs Bødtkjer, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Thomas Bartholin’s discovery of the human lymphatic vasculature’
  • Mathias Clasen, School of Communication and Culture, Department of English, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘The Master of Fear: Why Stephen King Became Everybody’s Favorite Boogeyman’
  • Samuel Schindler, Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Scientific Discovery: Its Nature, Social Function, and Future’
  • Susanne Ravn, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
    Project: ‘Towards a Phenomenology of Movement Praxis’

Fellows starting in 2025

On this page you can find a list of the future, incoming AIAS fellows, who were selected in the spring of 2025 and will commence at AIAS from 1 September 2025, in the autumn semester or in the spring of 2026.