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Visiting,
WIAS, Nordias
& Tandem Fellows

Visiting, WIAS, NordIAS and Tandem Fellows of 2026 


Visiting, WIAS, NordIAS and Tandem fellows have their daily office space at AIAS, and participate in the activities at AIAS and at the relevant research environments at Aarhus University.

More about the Visiting Fellowships, the AIAS-WIAS Fellowships programme, the NordIAS Visiting Fellwships and the Tandem Fellowships.

Alexandra Blair Collins

Tufts University, USA

Visiting Fellow:
14 Sept – 14 Dec 2026

Area of research:
Community Health 
 

Chris Frith

University College London, UK

Visiting Fellow: 
18 May - 28 May 2027

Area of research: 
Neuropsychology
 

Elina Kuusisto

Tampere University, Finland
 

NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
21-25 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Education and Culture 
 

Joseph Dumit

University of California Davis, USA

Visiting Fellow:
16 Mar - 15 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology  

Kateřina Machovcová

The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
 

Visiting Fellow:
14 Sept – 13 Nov 2026

Area of research:
Psychology  

Keren Papier

University of Oxford, England

Tandem Visiting Fellow
with Christina C. Dahm:
29 Sep - 9 Oct 2026

Area of research:
Population Health

Michael Fisch

University of Chicago, USA
 

Tandem Visiting Fellow
with Noa Vaisman:
28 Nov - 3 Dec 2026

Area of research:
Anthropology
 

Ranjana Saha

University of Turku, Finland
 


NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
15 - 30 Sep 2026

Area of research:
History and Archaeology      

Shelley Wickham

University of Sydney, Australia

Visiting Fellow
17 August – 15 December 2026

Area of research:
Chemistry and Physics

Valerio Capraro

University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

Tandem Visiting Fellow
with Christian Truelsen Elbæk:
7 - 14 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Psychology

Yoed Kenett

Technion, Israel

Visiting Fellow:
14 Sept 2026 – 28 Feb 2027

Area of research:
Cognitive Neuroscience

Uta Frith 

University College London, UK

Visiting Fellow:
18 May - 28 May 2027

Area of research: 
Cognitive Development  

2026 PAST VISITING Fellows

  • Chris Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 26 Apr - 18 May 2026 - Area of research: Neuropsychology
  • Dionysia Kolokotsa, Technical University of Crete, Greece
    Visiting Fellow: Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 - Area of research: Environmental and Energy Management
  • Gertraud Isabel Koch, University of Hamburg, Germany
    Visiting Fellow: 27 Apr - 27 Jun 2026 - Area of research: Cultural Anthropology and AI
  • Gianluca Filippone, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy
    Tandem Visiting Fellow with Mirgita Frasheri: 02 - 13 Mar 2026 - Area of research: Software Engineering for adaptive systems
  • Hartmut Rosa, University of Erfurt, Germany
    Honorary Doctorate Fellow: 01 Apr - Jun 2026 - Area of research: Sociology and Social Theory
  • Katja Dindar, Tampere University, Finland
    NordIAS Visiting Fellow: 01 - 19 Jun 2026 - Area of research: Welfare Sciences
  • Melanie Rosen, Trent University, Canada
    Visiting Fellow: 01 Mar - 15 May 2026 - Area of research: Philosophy
  • Nora Saif El Nasr Taha, Cairo University, Egypt
    Tandem Visiting Fellow with Ruben Pauwels: 15 - 22 Jan 2026 - Area of research: Dentistry and AI
  • Peter Szigeti, University of Turku, Finland
    NordIAS Visiting Fellow: 20 Apr - 8 May 2026 - Area of research: Property Law and Environmental Protection
  • Pierre Nyquist, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
    Tandem Visiting Fellow with Christian Pascal Hirsch: 16 - 27 Feb 2026 - Area of research: Mathematical Sciences
  • Rami Gabriel, Columbia College Chicago, USA  
    Visiting Fellow: 01 Feb - 31 Jul 2026 - Area of research: Psychology
  • Shorty Kandjengo, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia
    Tandem Visiting Fellow with Rachel Charlotte Smith: 14 - 27 Mar 2026 - Area of research: Artificial Intelligence
  • Victor Quesada, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
    Visiting Fellow: 01 May - 31 Jul 2026 - Area of research: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Uta Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 26 Apr - 18 May 2026 - Area of research: Cognitive Development  

2025 PAST VISITING Fellows

  • Ali Mozaffari, Deakin University, Australia
    Visiting Fellow: 7 Apr - 30 Jun 2025 - Area of research: Architecture and Archaeology

  • Caroline Hallin, Lund University, Sweden
    NordIAS Fellow: 12 May - 28 May 2025 - Area of research: Coastal Engineering

  • Chris Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 23 Apr - 14 May 2025 - Area of research: Neuropsychology

  • Di Wu, DIAS, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
    NordIAS Fellow: 24 Mar - 28 Mar 2025 - Area of research: Robotics and AI

  • Evan Thompson, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Visiting Fellow: 22 Apr - 15 Jun 2025 - Area of research: Philosophy and cognitive science

  • Fenna Poletiek, Leiden University, Netherlands
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Oct - 16 Dec 2025 - Area of research: Language and Cognition

  • Gabriel Scott Caluzzi, La Trobe University, Australia
    Visiting Fellow: 24 Feb - 15 Jul 2025 - Area of research: Alcohol Policy Research

  • Hana Müllerová, Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ
    Visiting Fellow: 8 Sep - 7 Nov 2025 - Area of research: Climate law, Environmental law, Public law, Human rights law

  • Isabel Kusche, University of Bamberg, Germany
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Oct - 19 Dec 2025 - Area of research: Political communication, digital media and AI    

  • Jason Waite, HCAS, University of Helsinki, Finland
    NordIAS Fellow: 27 Apr - 1 May 2025 - Area of research: Contemporary Art

  • Joe Dumit, UC Davis, USA and Aarhus University, Denmark
    Visiting Fellow: 12 Jun - 21 Jun 2025 - Area of research: Anthropology

  • John Gibbs, University of Reading, UK
    Tandem Fellow: 19 May - 30 May 2025 - Area of research: Film, Theatre & Television

  • Karen Barad, University of Santa Cruz, USA
    Visiting Fellow: 2025 - Area of research: Feminist studies and philosophy

  • Lars Bejder, University of Hawaii, USA
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Dec 2024 - 30 Jul 2025 - Area of research: Biology

  • Maria-Angeles Velilla Sanchez, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Tandem Fellow: 1 Jun - 15 jun 2025 - Area of research: English and German Studies

  • Markus Heydenreich, University of Augsburg, Germany
    Tandem Fellow: 14 Jul - 26 Jul 2025 - Area of research: Mathematics 

  • Rebecca Todd, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Visiting Fellow: 22 Apr - 15 Jun 2025 - Area of research: Philosophy and Cognitive Science

  • Sandra Eckert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Jun - 30 Jun 2025 - Area of research: Social and Political Sciences

  • Shaowen Bardzell, Georgia Tech College of Computing, USA
    Tandem Fellow: February 2025 - Area of research: Feminist HCI, Critical and Humanistic Computing

  • Uta Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 23 Apr - 14 May 2025 - Area of research: Cognitive Development   

  • Ward Keeler, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Jul - 31 Jul 2025 - Area of research: The performing arts and contemporary social relations in Southeast Asia

2024 PAST VISITING Fellows

  • Barbara Zecchi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
    Tandem Fellow: 14 Apr - 27 Apr 2024 - Area of research: Film Studies

  • Bettina Hollstein, Erfurt University, Germany
    Visiting Fellow: 15 Jul - 15 Aug 2024 + 15 Sep - 19 Sep 2024 - Area of research: Pragmatist Business Ethics

  • Bhalamurugan Sivaraman, Physical Research Laboratory, India
    Visiting Fellow: 1 May - 30 Jun 2024 - Area of research: Experimental Astrochemistry and Astrobiology

  • Chris Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 5 Sep - 23 Sep 2024 - Area of research: Neuropsychology

  • Christopher E. Forth, The University of Kansas, USA
    Visiting Fellow: 22 Jan - 7 Apr 2024 - Area of research: Cultural History of the Body, Gender, Senses, and Emotions.

  • Clara Dawson, University of Manchester, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 - Area of research: Avian Poetics and Natural History in the Industrial Revolution

  • David Teira, La UNED, Madrid
    Tandem Fellow: 3 May - 17 May 2024 - Area of research: Philosophy

  • Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
    Tandem Fellow: 11 March - 22 March 2024 - Area of research: Linguistics.

  • Fabrício de Araújo Moreira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Visting Fellow: 1 Feb - 30 Jun 2024 - Area of research: Biological Mechanisms and New Treatments for Drug Addiction

  • Frank van Vree, University of Amsterdam, NL
    Visiting Fellow: 15 Feb - 15 May 2024 - Area of research: The (geo)politics of memory

  • Hartmut Rosa, Erfurt University, Germany
    Visiting Fellow: 15 Sep - 19 Sep 2024 - Area of research: Sociology and political science

  • Iulia Badescu, Université de Montréal, Canada
    Visiting Fellow: 15 Sep - 15 Dec 2024 - Area of research: Anthropology

  • Le Duc Dung, WIAS, Waseda University, Japan
    AIAS-WIAS Fellow: 1 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 - Area of research: Public Policy

  • Lina Isacs, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Visiting Fellow: 1 May - 30 May 2024 - Area of research: Economic History

  • Maral Andassova, WIAS, Waseda University, Japan
    AIAS-WIAS Fellow: 1 Sep - 30 Sep 2024 - Area of research: Literature

  • Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California, USA
    Visiting Fellow: 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2024 - Area of research: Education, Psychology & Neuroscience

  • Neelakantan Keshavan, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Feb - 31 Jul 2024 - Area of research: Philosophical framings within Affects, Interfaces

  • Sheina Lew-Levy, Durham University, UK
    Tandem Fellow: 8 Jan - 12 Jan 2024 - Area of research: Psychology.

  • Uta Frith, University College London, UK
    Visiting Fellow: 5 Sep - 23 Sep 2024 - Area of research: Cognitive Development

2023 PAST VISITING Fellows

  • André Costopoulos, University of Alberta, Canada
    Visiting Fellow: 1 March - 30 April 2023 - Area of research: Anthropology
  • Anna Collar, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
    Visiting Fellow: 1 April - 23 June 2023 - Area of research: Archaeology 

  • Eleonora Redaelli, University of Oregon, United States of America
    Visiting Fellow: 1 April - 31 May 2023 - Area of research: American cultural policy

  • John NA Brown, School of Computing at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
    Tandem Fellow: 6 Nov - 24 Nov 2023 - Area of research: Evolutionary Neuropsychology of Human Computer Interaction

  • Louise Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Visiting Fellow: 1 Sep - 15 Dec 2023 - Area of research: History and Japan Studies

  • Luciana Fernandes de Brito, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Tandem Fellow: 16 Oct - 2 Nov 2023 - Area of research: Biotechnology and Food Science

  • Núria Marbà, IMEDEA
    Visiting Fellow: 3 Oct - 21 Dec 2023 - Area of research: Marine Ecology