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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.

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      

 

Elina Kuusisto

Tampere University, Finland
 

NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
TBA

Area of research:
Education and Culture 
 

Federica Calabrese

Boston University & Harvard University, USA

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
14 - 28 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Environmental Microbiology

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:
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

Joseph Dumit

University of California Davis, USA

Visiting Fellow:
16 Mar - 15 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Science & Technology Studies, and Anthropology  

Katja Dindar

Tampere University, Finland
 

NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
01 - 19 Jun 2026

Area of research:
Welfare Sciences      

Keren Papier

University of Oxford, England

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
29 Sep - 9 Oct 2026

Area of research:
Population Health

Melanie Rosen 

Trent University, Canada
 

Visiting Fellow:
01 Mar - 15 May 2026

Area of research:
Philosophy 

Michael Fisch

University of Chicago, USA
 

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
20 - 29 Nov 2026

Area of research:
Anthropology
 

Nora Saif Elnasr Taha

Cairo Universit, Egypt
 

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
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:
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

Ramin Shamshiri

Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
 

NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
20 Sep - 11 Oct 2026

Area of research:
Electrical and Computer Engineering     

Ranjana Saha

University of Turku, Finland
 


NordIAS Visiting Fellow:
15 - 30 Sep 2026

Area of research:
History and Archaeology      

Shorty Kandjengo

Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
14 - 27 Mar 2026

Area of research:
Artificial Intelligence

Valerio Capraro

University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

Tandem Visiting Fellow:
7 - 14 Sep 2026

Area of research:
Psychology

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