2018 Projects

The 15 projects awarded as 2018 USIAS Fellowships involve 17 high-level academics. Some of these researchers come from afar (from Australia and Colombia, for example) and others from the Strasbourg campus. They will all work on their individual projects that are focused on a variety of subjects from all scientific fields, ranging from chiral thermodynamics to geoengineering, from the effects of social stress on squirrels to George Sand's poetics of genius, to name but a few.

• Alleviating social stress: effects of social buffers on ageing in wild mammals
  Professor Stephen Dobson, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, United States
• Geoengineering, thought experiments, and the Cold War
  Professor Matthias Dörries, Henri-Poincaré Archives - Philosophy and Research for Science and Technology (AHP-PReST), University of Strasbourg
• Chiral thermodynamics
  Dr. Cyriaque Genet, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
• The reaction mechanism of proteins studied in nanopores
  Professor Petra Hellwig, Complex Matter Chemistry (CMC), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
• From scrutinizing one's entrails to letting the wind play one's harp: George Sand's poetics of genius
  Professor Isabelle Hoog Naginski, Department of Romance Studies, Tufts University, United States
• High-resolution structural analysis of rRNA modifications in specialized human ribosomes
  Dr. Bruno Klaholz, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC), University of Strasbourg, France
• A novel Biorthogonal chemistry-based approach for the study of bioactive molecules in vivo
  Dr. Wojciech Krezel, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC) - INSERM, University of Strasbourg, France
  Dr. Alain Wagner, Laboratory of Design and Application of Bioactive Molecules (CAMB), University of Strasbourg, France

• The social treatment and systems of representation of disability in Haiti
  Professor Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom, European Dynamics (DynamE), University of Strasbourg, France
  Professor Frédéric Reichhart, INSHEA - National Higher Institute for Training and Research for the Education of Young Disabled Persons and Adapted Teaching, Suresnes, France
• Exploration of the chromatin inflammatory code in Drosophila and in mammals
  Dr. Nicolas Matt, Laboratory for Innate Immune Response in Insect Models (M3I),, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
• Towards a hermeneutic of emancipation: the paradigm of Exodus
  Professor Jacob Rogozinski, Research Centre on Contemporary German Philosophy: History and Issues (CREPHAC), University of Strasbourg, France
• TranslatOmiX: massively-parallel characterization of the entire protein synthesis with single-cell resolution
  Dr. Michael Ryckelynck, RNA Structure and Reactivity (ARN), Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
• The non-Abelian Hodge theory of an orbifold Klein surface
  Professor Florent Schaffhauser, Department of Mathematics, University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
• Molecular machines with multiple mechanical functions
  Dr. Adrian-Mihail Stadler, Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (ISIS), University of Strasbourg and CNRS, France
• Interactions in thin liquid films: towards non-aqueous foams, emulsions & dispersions
  Professor Cosima Stubenrauch, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Communism, internationalism, nature - A Cold War history of environmental representation
  Dr. Tijana Vujosevic, School of Design, University of Western Australia, Australia