International Excellence Fellows

Fellows of 2024

 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Natasha Merat

  • Leader, Human Factors and Safety Group, ITS, Leeds, Human Factors and Transport Systems, Institute for
    Transport Studies (ITS), University of Leeds
  • Research Stay from 14 June 2024 until 10 August 2024
  • Research Topic: Interaction of road users with new technologies,
    understanding human factors implications
  • Host Institute: IFAB
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Dr. Uttam Manna

  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati
  • Research Stay from 01 June 2024 until 31 July 2024
  • Research Topic: Develop functional materials for efficient water splitting and controlled drug delivery
  • Host Institute: IFG
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Assoc. Prof. Mine Güngörmüşler

  • Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Izmir University of Economics
  • Research Stay from 31 May 2024 until 30 August 2024
  • Research Topic: Environmental effects via LCA for the biological water gas shift reaction with thermophilic bacteria
  • Host Institute: ITAS
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
 Dr. Christian Bretter

  • Senior Research Fellow, University of Leeds
  • Research Stay from 20  May 2024 until 19 July 2024
  • Research Topic: Changes in using different transport modes precede changes in mode-related attitudes
  • Host Institute: IFV
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Prof. Dr. Christian Beck
  • Professor, Queen Mary University of London
  • Research Stay from 01 May 2024 until 31 July 2024
  • Research Topic: Modelling the complexity of non-gaussian fluctuations in sustainable energy sytems
  • Host Institute: IAI
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Dr. Jason Furtado

  • Associate Professor; Carlisle and Lurline Mabrey Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology
  • Research Stay from 25 March 2024 until 21 June 2024
  • Research Topic: Drivers and Subseasonal Predictability of Cold Air Outbreaks
    in the Central United States
  • Host Institute: IMK-TRO
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Dr. Yunus Can Gultekin

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Research Stay from 24 March 2024 until 15 December 2024
  • Research Topic: Digital signal processing (DSP) for wireless and fiber optical
    communications (FOC)
  • Host Institute: CEL
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Zhengtao Xu

 

  • Senior Principal Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapur 
  • Research Stay between May to August 2024
  • Research Topic: Materials Reserch & Engineering, Crystalline, Electronically Integrated Covalent Networks as Sensors and Catalysts 
  • Host Institute: FMS
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. hab. Eng. Sylwia Mozia


  • Professor and Faculty of Chemical Technology and Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczeci
  • Research Stay from 04 March until 28 June 2024
  • Research Topic: advanced processes and materials for
    water/wastewater treatment
  • Host Institute: IAMT
  • Researchgate Profile here.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jianyu Li


  • Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University 
  • Research Stay from 25 January until 07 July 2024
  • Research Topic: Biomaterials and Bioadhesives
  • Host Institute: IFG
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Kai Kunze


  • Professor at Graduate School of Media Design at Keio University, Yokohama
  • Research Stay from 17 January until 15 March 2024
  • Research Topic: TECO Open Earable enhancement of recognition of affective states of human and augment social interactions
  • Host Institute: Institute for Telematic
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Dr. Giovanni Berselli

 

  • Full Professor, Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering, University of Genova
  • Research Stays from 09 January 2024 until 28 February 2024 and from 17 May 2024 until 15 July 2024
  • Research Topics: Design Methods and Tools for Sustainable Robot Design & AI-based optimal design of compliant components and meta-material for robotics
  • Host Institute: IAR
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xiaozhe Wang

  • Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
  • Research Stay from December 2023 until June 2023 and from 01 January 2024 until 30 April 2024
  • Humboldt Research Fellow at KIT (from 01 May 2024)
  • Research Topic: Data-driven control of complex energy grids
  • Host Institute: ITEP
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Fellows of 2023

Schmidt

Dr. Michael Andres Schmidt

 

  • Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales
  • Research Stay from 19 February 2023 until 20 May 2023
  • Research Topic: Lepton flavour violating decays at the LHC forward physics detectors
  • Host Institute: Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik 
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Ph.D. Elena De Momi

 

Prof. Dr. Fotini Noli

 

Dr. Meltem Elitas  

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gulistan Cigdem Yalcin

 

Prof. Dr. Daniel Czisco  

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigg

 

Dr. Wengui Li  

 

Dipl.-Ing. (Civil) Ph.D. Stefan Felder

 

Ph.D. Claudio Bonizzoni  

 

Prof. Peter Junk

 

  • JCU Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
  • Research Stay from 20 June 2023 until 15 September 23
  • Research Topic: Geodesy
  • Host Institute: AOC (Institute for Inorganic Chemistry)
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

  Dr. Nagamani Jaya Balila

 

  • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Research Stay from 22 May 2023 until 30 July 2023
  • Research Topic: Micromechanics
  • Host Institute: IAM-MMI (Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces) Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Ph.D. Ana Lucía Prieto Santa

 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ph.D. Andrés Díaz Lantada

 

Prof. Dr. Werner Dietl 

 

Dr. Zoe Li

 

Dr. Lilas Alrahis

 

  • Postdoctoral Associate, New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Research Stay from 06 February 2023 until 05 April 2023
  • Research Topic: New Approaches for Semiconductor Supply-chain Security
  • Host Institute: ITEC-CDNC (hair of Dependable Nano Computing)
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Fellows of 2022

Skropeta

Prof. Dr. Danielle Skropeta 

 

  • Professor in Chemistry & Associate Dean (Higher Degree 
    Research), University of Wollongong, Faculty of Science, Medicine & Health 
  • Research Stay 21 December 2022 until 07 April 2023
  • Research Topic: Boosting Cancer Treatment Efficacy by Deactivating the Tumour Defence System
  • Host Institute: IBCS-FMS
  • Google Scholar Profile here.
Schmidt

Dr. Michael Andres Schmidt

 

  • Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales
  • Research Stay from 19 February 2022 until 20 May 2022
  • Research Topic: Lepton flavour violating decays at the LHC forward physics detectors
  • Host Institute: Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik 
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Hoshin V. Gupta

 

Dr. Maria Veronica Ganduglia-Pirovano

 

  • Scientific Researcher at the Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
  • Research Stay from 1 September 2022 until 31 October 2022
  • Research Topic: Rational Design of Materials for Energy Production and a Cleaner Future
  • Host Institute: Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG) 
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jennifer Pazour

 

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA
  • Research Stay from 15 September 2022 until 15 December 2022
  • Research Topic: Optimization Approaches for Omnichannel Facility Designs
  • Host Institute: Institute for Material Handling and Logistics (IFL)
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Po-Ya Abel Chuang

 

  • Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, USA
  • Research Stay from 16 May 2022 until 22 June 2022, and from 5 December 2022 until 13 January 2023
  • Research Topic: Characterization of 3-D Multiscale Pore Structure in Electrochemical Cells using Diagnostic Imaging Tools Aiming to Develop a Fundamental Understanding of the Interfacial Transport Phenomena for advancing energy conversion and storage technologies
  • Host Institute: Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU)
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Dr. Martina Gamba

 

  • Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina
  • Assistant Professor at the National University of La Plata, Argentina
  • Research Stay from 1 September 2022 until 30 November 2022
  • Research Topic: Synthesis and characterization of materials for use as a solid electrolyte in lithium batteries
  • Host Institute: Institute for Applied Materials - Ceramic Materials and Technologies (IAM-KWT)
  • Testimonial
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Karen Renaud

 

Fellows of 2021

Prof. Dr. Kamran Behdinan

 

  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Research Stay from 1 June 2021 until 31 July 2021
  • Research Topic: Connecting the Concepts of Knowledge/Design Reuse using the Understanding of the Reference System of the Model of PGE
  • Host Institute: Institute for Product Engineering (IPEK)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Estrin Yuri

 

  • Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
  • Research Stay from 2 May 2022 until 31 July 2022
  • Research Topic: Design and Characterization of Novel Structural Materials in Terms of Inner Architecture and Defect Structure
  • Host Institute: Institute of Engineering Mechanics - Continuum Mechanics (ITM-KM)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr. Pooja Ghosh

 

  • Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
  • Research Stay from 1 May 2022 until 31 August 2022
  • Research Topic: Peptide-based Polymeric Inhibitors to Ameliorate Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Host Institute: Institute for Biological Interfaces 3 (IBG3)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Raffaela Mirandola

 

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Research Stay from 1 May 2022 until 31 July 2022
  • Research Topic: Uncertainty and View Consistency in Cyber-Physical Systems Design
  • Host Institute: Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr. sc. ETH Zurich Isabella Schalko

 

  • Senior Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland; Research Affiliate at the Nepf Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, USA
  • Research Stay from 2 May 2022 until 29 July 2022
  • Research Topic: Design of Wood Retention Structures in Rivers
  • Host Institute: Institute for Water and River Basin Management (IWG-WB)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr. John Vinson

 

  • Research Scientist at the Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
  • Research Stay from 30 May 2022 until 30 July 2022
  • Research Topic: Theoretical X-Ray Spectroscopy of Energy-relevant Material Systems
  • Host Institute: Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS)
  • Testimonial
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr. Edwin Bobga Fohtung

 

  • Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA
  • Research Stay from 26 June 2022 until 27 October 2022
  • Research Topic: Topological Excitations and Phase Transitions in Ferroic Nanostructures
  • Host Institute: Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS)
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Adam Jatowt

 

  • Full Professor at the Institute of Computer Sciences, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  • Research Stay from 1 July 2022 until 31 July 2022 and 1 July 2023 until 31 July 2023
  • Research Topic: Developing Machine Learning Approaches to Enable Recommendation of Scholarly Content
  • Host Institute: Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB)
  • Testimonial
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Dr. Guillermo López Quesada

 

  • Postdoctoral researcher at Institut clément ader (ICA), National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France
  • Research Stay from 20 June 2022 until 20 October 2022
  • Research Topic: Developing a Multi-Stage Micro Pump without Moving Parts and Enabling the Drive of a Micro Cryo Cooler without any Induced Vibrations
  • Host Institute: Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT)
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr.-Ing. Maria Paula Zappitelli

 

M. Sc., Ph. D. Abraham Alexis Becerra Araneda

 

  • Junior Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University National at San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Research Stay from 27 September 2021 until 26 January 2022
  • Research Topic: Technical and Environmental Characterization of Plastic Waste in the Context of Industrial Residues Management
  • Host Institute: Institute of Regional Science (IfR)
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Dr. Shatabdi Mallick

 

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-SERC, Chennai, India
  • Research Stay from 28 October 2021 until 28 Febraury 2022
  • Research Topic: Creep in Concrete Structures with Sustainable Cement Systems
  • Host Institute: Institute of Concrete Structures and Building Materials (IMB)
  • ResearchGate Profile here.

Ph.D. David John Jones

 

Ph.D. Akira Miyazaki

 

Dr. Eng. Matias Rolf Hampel

 

  • Researcher at the Instituto de Tecnologias en Teledeteccion y Astroparticulas (ITeDA) (CNEA-CONICET-UNSAM); UTN-FRBA, Argentina
  • Research Stay from 16 August until 15 December 2021
  • Research Topic: The Development of Cryogenic Quantum-Technology Based Microbolometer Prototype with Applications in Telescope Instruments
  • Host Institute: Institute of Micro- and Nanoelectronic Systems (IMS)
  • Testimonial
  • iNSPIRE Profile here.

Dr. Hawwa Kadum

 

Prof. Dr. Marcel Utz

 

  • Professor, Department of Chemistry at University of Southampton, UK
  • Research Stay from 15 August until April 2022
  • Research Topic: Massively Parallel Microfluidic NMR–Towards Metabolomic Cell and Spheroid Cultures (MPM-NMR)
  • Host Institute: Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT)
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

 

 

Prof. Dr. Eugen Rabkin

 

Prof. Dr. Antonina Pirrotta

 

Dr. Goran Vladisavljevic

 

  • Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University, UK
  • Research Stay from 1 July to 31 August 2021 and 1 July to 31 August 2023
  • Reseach Topic: Investigation of new microfluidic technology
  • Host Institute: Food Process Engineering (LVT)
  • Testimonial
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Dr. Kazunori Okada

 

  • Associate Professor, Agro-Biotechnology Research Center (AgTECH), Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences (GSALS), University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Research Stay from 23 June to 17 September 2021
  • Research Topic: Defence Compounds (Phytoalexins) in the two Model Crops Grapevine (Host Lab) and Rice (Dr. Okada) for hypothesis-driven Application
  • Host Institute: Institute of Botany, Molecular Cell Biology
  • Testimonial 
  • Google Scholar Profile here.

Prof. Dr. Igor Komarov

 

 

"The collaboration with KIT has demonstrated to be a perfect match of expertise and knowledge which is necessary to solve challenging problems for society."

Dr. Katherina Kuschel

 

 
"Say “yes” to every opportunity that appears at KIT.