New Fellows at the Bayreuth Humboldt Center

Prof. Dr. Diego Bustos (Senior Fellow) from CONICET in Argentina. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Andreas Möglich, he will develop new optogenetic tools to investigate the role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate in 14-3-3 cellular signal transduction in living cells.

Dr. Cassandra Gorman (Senior Fellow) from Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Together with her host Prof. Dr. Florian Klaeger, she will examine the history of the relationship between natural philosophy and poetics through poetic writings by early modern English women.

Dr. Kan Ma (Junior Fellow) from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He will work with his host Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Silvia Ulrich on superalloys for advanced applications in concentrated solar power plants.

Prof. Dr. Christopher Meissner (Senior Fellow) from the University of California, Davis, USA. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Jan-Otmar Hesse and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Egger, he will initiate a project in which he will use trade data to investigate the effects of the First World War on Germany's economic involvement in the world.

Prof. Dr. Markus Stock (Senior Fellow) from the University of Toronto, Canada. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropik, the literary scholar will examine the entanglements of humans with the underground in medieval and early modern German literature.

Prof. Dr. Eyal Winter (Senior Fellow) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Fabian Herweg and Prof. Dr. Stefan Napel, he will focus on incentive mechanisms for social networks.

Dr. Matthias Zußner (Junior Fellow) from the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. Together with his host Prof. Dr. Christoph Krönke, he plans to establish a coherent doctrine for the EU Digital Single Market Law.