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Fellows 2024

Welcome!

We warmly welcome our PYREC Fellows and look forward to shaping and developing the program together. You can find out more about our first PYREC cohort in the following profiles:

Isabella Graßl

Isabella Graßl

Prof. Dr. Gordon Fraser

Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics

I am a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Software Engineering II (Prof. Dr. Gordon Fraser) and I am interested in interdisciplinary research on social and collaborative aspects of software development. In my dissertation, I am investigating the effects of subject preference and group constellation in programming education with regard to various aspects of diversity, in particular with the aim of inspiring female students for computer science.

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Jan Doria

Jan Doria

Prof. Dr. Hans Krah

Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies

I am a Media scientist and doctoral candidate at the  Chair of German Literature and Film (in German language) and Academic staff member at the Institute for Digital Ethics (IDE) of the Stuttgart Media University (HdM). My research focuses on the interface between digitalization and sustainability, narratology and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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Dr. Diana Mistreanu

Prof. Dr. Marina Ortrud Hertrampf

Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies

I am a postdoctoral researcher and Habilitandin (Professorship of Romance Literature and Culture with a focus on France) at the University of Passau. After specializing in the interdisciplinary field of cognitive literary studies, I am currently investigating the new forms of life writing that emerged in Europe during the post-truth era. My research focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the contemporary autotheoretical literary production of France and Spain, which I examine in the light of the post-truth values and narratives that have been aiming to undermine European democracies over the past decade.

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Jan Philip Kühne

Prof. Dr. Meinhard Schröder

Faculty of Law

In my dissertation project, I am currently investigating the legal limits of conditionality as a behavior management tool of the benefit administration (Chair of Public Law, European Law and IT Law).

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Dr. Patrick Figge

Dr. Patrick Figge

Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler

Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems

As a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Organisation, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, I am investigating how collaboration in teams changes through various forms of human-machine interaction when technologies such as artificial intelligence are used. Other areas of research include the influence of company founders on the research and development activities of their companies and how their way of thinking affects venture capital investors.

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Dr. Marlene Mußotter

Dr. Marlene Mußotter

Prof. Dr. Ingo Rohlfing

Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Methods of Empirical Social Research (in German language) in the field of political psychology. My research interests include empirical nationalism research and empirical migration research. My work has appeared in journals such as Nations and Nationalism and Political Psychology.

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 Stefan Christoph

Stefan Christoph

Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo

Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

I research on conspiracy ideologies in democratic systems (Chair of Political Theory (in German language)). In particular, I conduct research into the history of ideas and political theory of causal research and look for answers to the phenomenon in terms of democracy education.

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Kevin Koziol

Kevin Koziol

Prof. Dr. Suleika Bort

Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems

I am a doctoral candidate at the Chair of International Management and Social Entrepreneurship. My research focusses on factors influencing investment decisions in early-stage financing. In particular, I analyse the role of heuristics, contextual characteristics and the gender of the founder.

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Franziska Jäckel

Franziska Jäckel

Research Group Bioeconomy Economics

Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems

I am a doctoral candidate in the Bioeconomy Economics research group, focusing on the impacts of the circular bioeconomy transition on global agricultural value chains. My research focuses specifically on analyzing how smallholder farmers in Ghana's tropical fruit sector are affected and their role in the transition.

 

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Dr. Stephanie Großmann

Dr. Stephanie Großmann

Prof. Dr. Hans Krah

Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies

I am a literary and media researcher and conduct research on media constructions of space and reality, intermediality phenomena, narratology and presence media (especially opera and music theatre) at the  Chair of German Literature and Film (in German language) . My habilitation thesis is dedicated to the topic "Cartographic thinking and poetisation of the (border) landscape in historical change. Media conceptions of German territory from the German Empire to the present (1871 - 2021)".

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