Welcoming Our New Fellows

Meet our new Fellows and get inspired by their research projects.

Prof. René Botnar (King’s College London)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Marcus R. Makowski (TUM School of Medicine)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
CardioMRI

TUM-IAS Research Area
Bio-Engineering & Imaging

Fellow-Profile

Dr. Elena del Valle (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship

Hosts
­Prof. Gerhard Kramer, Prof. Kai Müller (TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Novel Quantum Light Sources

TUM-IAS Research Area
Surface, Interface, Nano- and Quantum Science

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Prof. Naomi J. Halas (Rice University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Hosts
Prof. Jonathan Finley, Prof. Ian D. Sharp (TUM ­Department of Physics), Prof. Emiliano Cortés ­(Department of Physics, LMU)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Sustainable photocatalysis using plasmons and 2D materials (SusPhuP2M)

TUM-IAS Research Area
Surface, Interface, Nano- and Quantum Science

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Prof. Maja Horst (DTU – Technical University of Denmark)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Ruth Müller (TUM Department of Science, Technology and Society)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Responsible Innovation Communication

TUM-IAS Research Area
Political, Social and Technological Change

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Prof. Anna Keune (TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology)

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Learning Sciences and Educational Design Technologies

TUM-IAS Research Area
Gender and Diversity in Science and Engineering

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Prof. Frank Keutsch (Harvard University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Jia Chen (TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Air Pollution and Climate

TUM-IAS Research Area
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Building Technology

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Prof. Antonia Larese (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Fellowship

Host
Prof. Kai-Uwe Bletzinger (TUM Department of Civil, Geo and Environmental Engineering)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Digital Twins of Civil Structures and Protection Systems in a Climate Change Perspective (REACT)

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile

Dr. Jihyun Lee (University of Calgary)

Fellowship
Anna Boyksen Fellowship

Host
Prof. ­Michael Zäh (TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Inclusion and Diversity in the Manufacturing Sector in Industry 4.0

TUM-IAS Research Area
Gender and Diversity in ­Science and Engineering

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Prof. Örs Legeza (Wigner Research Centre for Physics)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Host
Prof. Gero Friesecke (TUM Department of Mathematics)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Novel Tensor ­Network Methods for Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

Fellow-Profile

Dr. Anastassia Makarieva (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)

Fellowship
Anna Boyksen Fellowship

Host
Prof. Anja Rammig (TUM School of Life Sciences)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Drought Mitigation through Ecosystem Restoration: Challenges and Opportunities

TUM-IAS Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences

Fellow-Profile



Dr. Andreea Molnar (Swinburne University of Technology)

Fellowship
Anna Boyksen Fellowship

Host
Prof. Anne Brüggemann-Klein (TUM Department of Informatics)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Diversity in Infor­mation Technology

TUM-IAS Research Area
Gender ­and Diversity in Science and Engineering

Fellow-Profile

Prof. Peter Nordlander (Rice University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship

Hosts
Prof. Jonathan Finley (TUM Department of Physics), Prof. Stefan Maier (Department of Physics, LMU)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Sustainable Photocatalysis using Plasmons and 2D Materials (SusPhuP2M)

TUM-IAS Research Area
Surface, Interface, Nano- and Quantum Science

Fellow-Profile



Prof. Daniela Pfeiffer (TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar)

Fellowship
Albrecht Struppler Clinician Scientist ­Fellowship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
X-Ray and Computed Tomography Research

TUM-IAS Research Area
Bio-Engineering & Imaging

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Prof. W. H. A. (Wil) Schilders (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the Siemens AG)

Host
Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz (TUM Department of Informatics)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Scientific ­Machine Learning

TUM-IAS Research Area
Advanced Computation and Modeling

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Prof. Nikkil Sudharsanan (TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences)

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professorship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Behavioral ­Science for Disease Prevention and Health Care

TUM-IAS Research Area
Communication and Information

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Prof. Nitish Thakor (Johns Hopkins University)

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (funded by the Siemens AG)

Host
Prof. Gordon Cheng (TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Human-centered Neuroengineering

TUM-IAS Research Area
Neuroengineering

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Dr. Benedikt Zott (TUM University Hospital rechts der Isar)

Fellowship
Albrecht Struppler Clinician Scientist Fellowship

TUM-IAS Focus Group
Neuroglial circuits in health and disease

TUM-IAS Research Area
Fundamental Natural and Life Sciences

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