Expert Knowledge in Times of Crisis: Think Tanks, Media and Politics beyond Liberal Democracies

Department of Communication

Mentor: Sophie Lecheler

Finished Fellowship in August 2024. Vera went on to a position as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Birmingham - link here to her institutional profile.

At 30: Four Waves of Ukrainian Music in the Twentieth Century

Department of East European History

Mentor: Kerstin Jobst

Finished Fellowship in July 2024. Leah went on to a position as an Assistant Professor of Music History at the Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music. See link here.

Agents of Globalisation? Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Socialism (1973-1991)

Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET)

Mentor: Phillip Ther

Finished Fellowship in August 2023. Anna went on directly to a position as a lecturer in Contemporary Economic History at the University of Glasgow - link here to her institutional profile.

Novel cascading approaches based on green chemistry to valorize microalgal biomass by proving potential biological activities

Department of Food Chemistry and Toxicology

Mentor: Doris Marko

Finished Fellowship in May 2024. Natalia was awarded a prestigious Ramon y Cajal Fellowship by the Spanish government and now works as an Assistant Professor in Food Science at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid – link here to her institutional profile.

Supply mechanisms of Phosphorus in the Rhizosphere in tropical soils – interactions of plants and microorganisms

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Mentor: Andreas Richter

Finished Fellowship in September 2024. Lucia continues as a Junior Research Group leader at the Center for Microbiology and Environtmental Systems Science in the FWF-funded Young investigator research group project 'playNICE - Interplay Between Biological Nitrification Inhibitors, Nitrogen Cycling, And Agronomic Nitrogen Use Efficiency'  – link here to her institutional profile.

Comrades in Arms: A Global History of Czechoslovakia's Weapons Industry, 1954-1994

Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET)

Mentor: Phillipp Ther

Finished Fellowship in December 2023. Rosie was awarded the FWF WEAVE grant and is currently PI of the project “Linking Arms: Central Europe’s Weapons Sector, 1954-1994” at the University of Vienna - link here to her new project.

Towards a Sustainable Linked Data Infrastructure for Museum Collections

Department of History

Mentor: Tara Andrews

Functional characterisation of algal wax ester biosynthetic enzymes and evaluation of their potential for wax ester production in microalgae

Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

Mentor: Wolfram Weckwerth

Finished Fellowship in August 2024. Magda was awarded a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to be carried out at Bielefeld University, Germany - link here to her new project.

Injectivity, Regularity, and Extensibility of Deformations

Department of Mathematics

Mentor: Ulisse Stefanelli

Finished Fellowship in August 2024. Anastasia was awarded an FWF Elise-Richter grant and is currently the PI of the project “Quasiconformal Elasticity: Global and Local Behavior of Deformations” at TU Wien – link to here to her new project.

Disappointment: Reclaiming the Unfulfilled Promise of Resistance

Department of Political Science

Mentor: Oliver Marchart

Fellowship ended December 2022; Maša went on directly to a position as Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds – link here to her institutional profile.

Heterogeneous Photochemistry at Atmospheric Aqueous Surfaces

Department of Physical Chemistry

Mentor: Ellen Backus

Microbial Networks of DHA Synthesis: lipid metabolism for the brain

Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science

Mentor: David Berry

The Able (bodied) Babel: Translating Stories of Disability

Department for Translation Studies

Mentor: Klaus Kaindl

Finished Fellowship in August 2023. Eva went on directly to a position as a Faculty Lecturer at the Department of Translation Studies of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra– link here to her institutional profile.

The physics of slow dynamics in soft-hard mixtures

Computational and Soft Matter Physics

Mentor: Christos Likos

Finished Fellowship in March 2024. Vittoria was awarded a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to be carried out at the University of Padova, Italy – link here to her new project.

Capturing the Arctic: Visual and Material Practices of Ethnographic Representation of the Russian North

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Mentor: Peter Schweitzer