2022 Projects

The 13 projects cover a wide variety of domains, as is characteristic to USIAS. The Fellows include biologists, ecophysiologists and neuroscientists from the life sciences, as well as art historians, literary scholars and philosophers from the fields of social sciences and humanities, and geoscientists, mathematicians and chemists from the natural sciences.

• Multiple cycles of chemically-driven RNA ligation within synthetic protocells
  Dr. Claudia Bonfio, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France  
  

• Dynamics and control in micromagnetism
  Professor Raphaël Côte, Institute for Advanced Mathematical Research (IRMA), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France 
   
• Rock fracture over geologic time: seeking insight at the crossroads of rock physics and Earth surface processes
  Professor Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), USA  
  

• K-trivial varieties and K-equivalence: a motivic perspective
  Dr. Lie Fu, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands  
  
  
• Functional implications of bidirectional connectivity between cerebellum and basal ganglia
  Professor Arvind Kumar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden  
  
  
• Microfluidics, X-rays and electrons: an integrated toolbox for the in situ study of hybrid perovskites synthesis
  Dr. Benedikt Lassalle, Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette, France  
  
  
• Remote data acquisition in penguin colonies
  Dr. Yvon Le Maho, Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute (IPHC), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France & Dr. Victor Planas-Bielsa, Monaco Scientific Center (CSM)

• The Otherness of the Other one. The genesis and critical reception of Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1931) in French contemporary philosophy
  Professor Édouard Mehl, Research Centre for Contemporary German Philosophy (CREPHAC), University of Strasbourg, France  
  

• Before the two cultures: literature and mathematics in early modern Europe
  Professor Shankar Raman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
   
  
• The visionary drawing and its knowledge. Based on the study and valuation of Théophile Bra’s archive collection
  Professor Julie Ramos, Art, Civilisation and History of Europe (ARCHE), University of Strasbourg, France  
  
  
• Assessing the role of local chromatin dynamics in transcriptional response and DNA repair
  Dr. Thomas Sexton, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, France  
  
  
• Reductive chemical recycling of polyurethanes via hydrogenation with homogeneous catalysts based on abundant transition metals
  Professor Jean-Baptiste Sortais, University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France & Dr. Éric Pollet, Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health (ICPEES), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
  
  
• The coupling of transcription and mRNA splicing
  Dr. Albert Weixlbaumer, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, CNRS and Inserm, France   

^{CNRS: French National Centre for Scientific Research
Inserm: French National Institute of Health and Medical Research}