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International Fellows throughout the years

Themes can invite international researchers - fellows - to Lund.

More than 50 international researchers have participated in the international fellows programme so far, helping us make the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies what it is today. As our esteemed colleagues, collaborators and ambassadors, they remain valuable partners within Lund University's extended networks.

Fellows 2024/2025

Connected to the Theme Ancient Synagogues and the Human Sensorium

Connected to the Theme DigiJustice: Rethinking Digital Inequalities and Human Rights in the Age of AI

Connected to the Theme DigiTax

Fellows 2023/2024

Connected to the Theme Biomaterials 4.0

Connected to the Theme Sound of Democracy

Connected to the Theme Coastal Perspectives

Fellows 2022/2023

Connected to the Theme Public Art and The New Commons

Portrait photo: Friederike Landau-Donnelly
Friederike Landau-Donnelly

Radboud University, The Netherlands
Link to Landau-Donnelly's webpage

Connected to the Theme Designing Sustainable Digital Work

Portrait photo: Viswanath Venkatesh
Viswanath Venkatesh

Virginia Tech., USA

Connected to the Theme Post Hoc Interventions

Connected to the Theme Synthetic Biology

Portrait photo: Eleanor Hadley-Kershaw
Eleanor Hadley-Kershaw

University of Nottingham, UK

Link to current workplace, University of Exeter, UK

Fellows during 2010-2021

2021

The Air we Breathe 2.0
Camilla Geels, Senior Scientist at Aarhus University - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Leena J Jäärvi, Professor, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dominik Brunner, Professor, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Zürich, Switzerland

Domestication 2.0
Philip Howard, Professor, Dept. of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, USA

Hydrosolidarity 2.0 
Kaveh Madani, Ph.D., F.AGU, F.EWRI, The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University New Haven, USA

Energy Justice 2.0 
Brototi Roy, Ph.D Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Sofia Avila, Ph.D Environmental Sciences and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Ethemcan Turhan, Ph.D Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

2020/2021

In Search of Search
Dirk Lewandowski, Professor Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Expert
Artem Biblin, MD in Preventive Medicine, St Petersburg State Medical Academy after I.I. Mechnikov, Russia

The Future of Human Rights
 Bhupinder Chimni, Professor of international law at O.P. Jindal Global University, India

2018/2019

Domestication
Tim Crews, Research Director, The Land Institute, Agro-ecology, perennial cropping systems, Salina, Kansas, USA
Harriet Friedman, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Sociology of food systems, food regimes, University of Toronto, Canada

Urban Creativity
Ilaria Hoppe, Professor, Head at the lnstitute of Contemporary Arts and Media, Department of Art History of the Catholic Private University, Linz
Annette Markham, Professor MSO, lnformation Studies & Digital Design, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, Denmark  
David Pinder, Professor of Urban Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark
Andreas Philippopulous – Mihalopoulus, Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster, London, and Director of The Westminster Law & Theory Lab, UK

Protein Shifts
Don Stull, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, USA

CRISIS
Jeffery Hearn, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Management & Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

2017/2018

The Air in African Cities
Michael Jerrett, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, USA

Slow Light
Francois Ramaz, Associate Professor in Physics, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris (ESPCI)
Jan Harms, PhD in Physics, Assistant Professor (RTDb) Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Vitaly Kuzkin, PhD Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia
Krishna Mohan Rupavatharam, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Physics, Montana State University, USA

The Nature of Peace
Florian Krampe, PhD in Peace and Conflict Research. Research School for International Water Cooperation, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
Ranja El-Masri, PhD in Forestry. Regional coordinator, Acknowl-EJ (Academic-Activist Co-Produced Knowledge for Environmental Justice), PhD, Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut, University of Balamand, UNDP Regional Centre in Cairo, Egypt

Social Innovation                                       
Gilda Farrell, Head of Social Cohesion, Research and Early Warning Division, Council of Europe
Balaji Parthasarathy, Professor, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India. Link to interview

DATA
Christine Borgman, Distinguished Professor, Presidential Chair of Information Studies, UCLA
Anne Beaulieu, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Michael Witt, Associate Professor, Computer science, Distributed Data Curation Center, Purdue University, USA. Link to interview
Matthew Bietz, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, USA

2016/2017

Energy Justice
Alevgul Sorman, Researcher at the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) and an affiliated researcher at ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Desta Mebratu, Professor, PhD in Engineering, fellow at the University of Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies and former Deputy Regional Director of UNEP Regional Office for Africa

A Plurality of Lives
Klara Anna Capova, PhD in Anthropology of Science, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, USA

Work and Organization in the Digital Age
Melissa Gregg, PhD in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology, Principal Engineer in User Experience Research, Intel, Portland. Link to interview.

Annual report
Rudi Palmieri,  Lecturer in Strategic Communication, PGT lead and director of MSc Strategic Communication (UniLiv in London), Department of Communication and Media School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
Marlies Whitehouse, Research Associate, ZHAWSchool of Applied Linguistics, Switzerland
Alon Lischinsky, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Discourse, Oxford Brookes University

2015/2016

Exploring Challenges for New Big Science
Catherine Westfall, Assistant Professor, American Studies, History of Science and Technology, Michigan State University, USA

Degrowth
Stefania Barca, PhD in Economic History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

eHealth
Katherine Clegg Smith, Associate Professor, Health, Behaviour and Society, John Hopkins University, USA

The Credit Society
Elaine Kempson, Professor Emerita, Director of Personal Finance Research Centre, University of Bristol
Christian Poppe, Researcher, Debt- and Payment Problems/ Credit Society. National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO) Oslo, Norway

2014/2015

HEAT
Tord Kjellström, Professor, Med Dr. Health and Environment International Trust, Mapua, Nelson, New Zealand

Healthy Indoor Environments
Pawel Wargocki, Associate Professor at Technical University of Denmark

Sustainabe Welfare
Kate Soper, Professor in Philosophy, Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

2013/2014

The Animal Turn
Annie Potts, Associate Professor, Centre for Human-Animal Studies, University of Canterbury, United Kingdom

IMPROVE
Richard Taylor, Professor of Physics, Physics Department, University of Oregon,USA

Digitrust
Deborah Halbert, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

2012/2013

Hydrosolidarity
Kaveh Madani, PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida, University Of California, Davis

Bioinspired Energy Conversion
Juan Parrondo, Professor of Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 

The Generational Goal
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, PhD in Civil Engineering, Professor at Danish Building Research Institute, Department of Town, Housing and Property, University of Aalborg, Denmark

2011/2012

All Activities, especially Black Carbon
Susan Paulson, Professor in Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Miami University

Legitimizing ESS            
Sharon Traweek,  Professor in History and Women’s Studies, UCLA

2010/2011

The Global Economy
Markku Sippola, PhD in Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä

Astrobiology
Bruce Fouke, Professor in Geology and Microbiology, Department of Geology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Eric Gaidos, Professor in Astrophysics, Department of Earth Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Interviews with previous International Fellows

 

Theme DATA: Guest Researcher Dr Anne Beaulieu

 

Theme DATA Guest Researcher Matthew Bietz
Theme DATA: Guest Researcher Michael C Witt