Fellows 2026-28
We welcome our new first-year Fellows and look forward to shaping and developing the programme together. In the profiles below, you can find out more about our third PYREC cohort:
Lucero Carballo Madrigal (Budget)
Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm
Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems
I am PhD student at the Chair of Development Economics, where I conduct research on the empirical analysis of conflict and crime in the Global South using causal inference, quasi-experimental methods and geospatial analysis. My goal is to quantify the effects of these phenomena on different development indicators and to study their causal mechanisms.
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Abinaya Fernando (Budget)
Prof. Dr. Marina Fiedler
Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems
I am a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Management, People and Information. Together with my colleagues I am conducting research into the implications of AI for the world of work. My research focuses on how generative AI shapes collaboration within teams and what significance this has for team dynamics and performance.
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Silvia Haider (Spokesperson)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences
I am a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Theory (in German) and at the Professorshio for Political Education (in German). In my doctoral thesis, I am examining fundamental tensions within feminist theory, as well as the normative relevance and potential tendency to treat individual positions as absolute, from a political theory perspective.
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Charlotte Höltl (Communication)
Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler
Dr. Dörte Leusmann
Research Affiliate with Prof. Dr. Carolin Häussler
Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems
As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen and Research Affiliate at the Chair of Organisation, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship I am investigating how organisations collaborate and how this collaboration changes over time. My research centres on a unique dataset of strategic alliances in the biopharmaceutical industry. My approach is interdisciplinary: I examine how partners negotiate meaning, shape expectations and enable innovation through language, for example in contracts and press releases. To this end, I combine quantitative and qualitative methods with the analysis of large text datasets.
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Christina Schäfer (Spokesperson)
Prof. Dr. Marina Fiedler
Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems
As part of my doctorate at the Chair of Management, People and Information I am involved in various areas of research within the field of artificial intelligence and its influence on human behaviour. In this context I employ both qualitative and quantitative research methods. One of my research projects focuses on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for multimodal analysis in the social sciences, whilst another examines the impact of generative AI on group dynamics.
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Johanna Sinn
Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt
Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies
I am a doctoral candidate at the Professorship of Applied Ethics. In my doctoral thesis, I am investigating the role of examples in philosophical ethics. I am particularly interested in the ethical questions that arise from the use of examples. The thesis aims to contribute to methodological and research-ethical reflection within philosophy.
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