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Incoming Fellows

Meet the new Fellows

The incoming fellows of AIAS

AUTUMN 2026

AIAS-AUFF Fellows - commencing 1 September 2026

  • Cameron Hu, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, USA
    Project at AIAS: ‘Predicaments of Knowledge in/of the Anthropocene’
  • 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’
  • Ermias Debie Adane, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
    Project at AIAS: ‘Sacred Corridors: Modeling Socio-Ecological Resilience in Ethiopia’s Church Forest Networks’
  • Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
    Project at AIAS: ‘Inside Experience: Linking Bodily Awareness and Emotional Meaning in Adolescence (InExperience)’
  • Jessica Wax-Edwards, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University College Cork, Ireland
    Project at AIAS: ‘Visualising populist performance: audiovisual approaches to the study of populist imagemaking’
  • Joshua Bergamin, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria
    Project at AIAS: ‘Embodying Freedom: Habits, Improvisation, and Distributed Agency’
  • Octavio Bramajo Hemsi, Institute for Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Project at AIAS: ‘Understanding health trends outcomes in young adults in Denmark: a generational perspective’
  • Sayeh Khaniha, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME), University of São Paulo, Brazil
    Project at AIAS: ‘Geometric Hierarchical Stochastic Block Model (GHSBM): Theory, Algorithms, and Biological Validation’

AIAS Science Diplomacy (AIAS-SD) Fellows - commencing 1 September 2026

  • George Salter, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
    Project at AIAS: ‘Technological interdependencies and value mobility in the Danish quantum computing ecosystem’
  • Rachele Pierini: Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen
    Project at AIAS: ‘Diplomacy Designers: Bottom-Up Practices in Building Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures’
  • Sonam Kinga, Royal Institute of Governance and Strategic Studies, Bhutan
    Project at AIAS: ‘From a Hot Spot to a Hope Spot – Science Diplomacy and Bhutan’s Survival Between India and China’

AIAS-Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellow - commencing 1 September 2026

  • Elias Götz, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Project at AIAS: ‘Deterrence Matters: Assessing the Effectiveness of Tripwires in International Politics.’

Artist-in-Residence and Aarhus University tandem partner - commencing 1 September 2026

  • Pablo Velasco, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus University
  • Amy Boulton, Artist based in Stockholm, b. Huddersfield, UK
    joint project at AIAS: ‘Data Intimacies: Love and labour in an age of AI’

Carlsberg Monograph Fellows at AIAS - commencing 1 September 2026

  • Anja Bechmann, School of Communication and Culture - Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Platform Collective Behavior and the Making of Democracy’
  • Isabelle Torrance, School of Communication and Culture – English, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Greek Tragedy and Human Rights: The Case of Ireland’
  • Lars Thorup Larsen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Project: ‘Have people stopped listening to science? How citizens gauge the authority of expert knowledge’

Associate Fellows from Aarhus University- commencing 1 August 2026:

  • Alejandra Zaragoza Scherman,  Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Athanasia Lampraki, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Barth F. Smets, Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering - Water Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Behzad Bozorgtabar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Signal Processing and Machine learning, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Haja Kadarmideen, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences - ANIVET Management and Modelling (MAMO), Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Julia Föcker, Danish School of Education - Educational Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Laura Stidsholt, Department of Biology - Zoophysiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Lenka Belicova, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Matthias Heymann, Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Nadescha Zwerschke, Department of Biology - Aquatic Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Niels Buus, Department of Public Health - Department of Science in Nursing, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Oana Vuculescu, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Per Qvist, Department of Biomedicine - Research and Education, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Pia Majbritt Jensen, School of Communication and Culture - Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Ulrik Nissen, School of Culture and Society - Systematic Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Vera Anna van der Weijden, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - Molecular Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

Fellows starting in 2026

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