Social sciences
Activities in the third year of the project included a virtual workshop and study facilities utilization. Publications, presentations, and ongoing research projects highlight the team’s contributions to understanding time perceptions during crises.
Medicine
DZL’s Balzan Prize supports a cross-disciplinary project investigating the effects of exposure to e-cigarette vapour. Preliminary results show that while e-cigarettes are sold as healthy substitutes of tobacco smoking, ingredients of the vapour contain substances with physiological influence.
Social sciences
Robert O. Keohane
A report on Keohane’s research project’s first two years, highlighting a workshop at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and reflecting on its experimental mentorship and the achievements of its young scholars.
History
Michael Cook
A report on Cook’s project 2021-22, consisting of Zoom meetings, two conferences, and future plans, mainly for the publication of a book series on premodern states. Due to the Covid crisis, the project end-date has been extended to 2027.
History
Jürgen Osterhammel
Through FRIAS fellowships and workshops at FRIAS and an edited volume, Osterhammel’s project will “rethink” the situation of global history, which remains ambiguous an academic subdiscipline after the past 30 years of expansion.
Natural sciences
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes (Hans) Oerlemans
The project will employ two postdocs to study ice cores from ice caps near the Arctic Ocean to retrieve proxy records of past ice and climatic conditions. Younger researchers will also engage in workshops and excursions to assess existing data, test glacier models, and formulate a modeling strategy.
Mathematics, physics, and technology
Langer’s research project envisions fellowships for four graduate students from Hong Kong, the USA, and the Middle East to do research in biomaterials for nanomedicine and tissue engineering and organize travel symposia to present results.
Philosophy and Letters
Martha C. Nussbaum
Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach is the framework for a philosophical and practical exploration of animal rights. Selected scholars in global philosophy and law will contribute articles, present papers at a 2024-25 conference, and produce a final volume.
Arts
Philip V. Bohlman
In a project on sonic encounters in areas of global migration and conflict, young scholars’ research ranging from archival studies to fieldwork with migrant communities will create an interactive digital archive, Musical Topographies of the Borderland.
Mathematics, physics, and technology
Thibault Damour
Damour’s project will involve a group of international young scientists and high-level senior scientists in frontier research on some of the key theoretical challenges currently left open in the field of gravitation.
Medicine
Jeffrey I. Gordon
Gordon’s project aims to finance research projects for young scientists, fostering career development and training programs for icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh) scientists at Washington University.
Mathematics, physics, and technology
Alessandra Buonanno
Buonanno’s project is on the history of the two-body problem in General Relativity (approx. analytical solutions, interface with numerical relativity, analytical/numerical relativity methods in LIGO’s and Virgo’s 2015 discovery of gravitational waves).