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List of scholars

This document lists some of the scholars of the German National Merit Foundation that are currently or have recently been in Northern America. They are sorted by country, state and school. Feel free to contact them if you have any questions regarding a particular university. This page is up-to-date as of November 2003.

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United States

Canada

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Alabama

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB),
Dept. of Microbiology/ Center for AIDS Research

  • Dr. Christina Ochsenbauer Dr.rer.nat. Christina Ochsenbauer
    Dept. of Microbiology Württemberger Strasse 36
    University of Alabama at Birmingham 65824 Schwalbach/ Taunus
    845 19th Street South BBRB #466  
    Birmingham AL 35294 USA  

    Email: ochsenba@uab.edu

    Comments:

    I am currently a post-doc at the Dept. of Microbiology / Center for AIDS Research at UAB in Birmingham. Alabama "the Beautiful" is an amazing place where Old South and Modern Life meet; it is different from a Stifti's more obvious places of choice, like Boston or Berkley. If you are in the Southeast and/or are interested in science and life in Alabama, contact me. I was a Stifti throughout my student and doctoral thesis years.

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California

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ,
Physics Division

  • Karsten M. Heeger
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    One Cyclotron Road
    Physics Division, Bldg 50R5008
    Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

    Email: kmheeger@lbl.gov

    Comments:

    Have openings for summer students or research projects for exchange students. Can provide contacts for research in physics at University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Please feel free to email me.

Colorado

University of Colorado,
Immunology

  • Willi Born Willi Born
    National Jewish Medical and Research Center
    1400 Jackson Street
    Denver, Colorado 80206

    Email: bornw@njc.org

    Comments:

    Ich war ein Biologiestudent an der Albert Ludwigs Universitaet, Freiburg, und wurde 1974 bei der Studienstiftung aufgenommen. Jetzt bin ich Professor fuer Immunologie, wohnhaft in Denver, Colorado. Ich bin sehr dankbar fuer die Foerderung der Studienstiftung, die meinen Lebenslauf sehr beeinflusst hat.

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Florida

Florida State University,
Department of Chemistry

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Illinois

Northwestern University,
Department of Philosophy

  • Axel Mueller
    Department of Philosophy Gartenstrasse 09
    1818 Hinman Ave. D-64342 Seeheim-Jugenheim
    Evanston IL 60208

    Email: muell@nwu.edu

    Comments:

    Fields of interest: Philosophy of language, philosophy of science. I have been working on the philosophy of Hilary Putnam, and written a dissertation on his conception of the referential use of language; my advisors are Prof. Habermas (Frankfurt, Northwestern) and Prof. W.K. Essler (Frankfurt). I expect to receive my degree by July 1999. Otherwise I've been working on Natural Kind Terms, Goodman's paradox, problems of underdetermination, the epistemic modalities etc. Other fields of interest are political philosophy and the theories of film, cinema and drama (which I've also written on).

    I've been teaching at Northwestern as an Adjunct Lecturer and Visiting Scholar since 1996/7 and I graduated with a Ph.D. in 1999. Currently I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University

    If anybody plans to study for a certain term at Northwestern or in the Chicago area, she or he is invited to contact me with any questions.

The University of Chicago ,
Economics

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Maryland

University of Maryland ,
Computer Science

  • Jan Neumann
    4007 Metzerott Rd
    College Park
    MD 20740

    Email: jn@videogeometry.org
    Homepage: www.videogeometry.org

    Comments:

    I am a PhD Student in the computer vision lab of the computer science department at the University of Maryland. If you need information about the University of Maryland, the Washington D.C./Baltimore area, a place to stay, etc. you can always contact me.

Massachusetts

Tufts University / Harvard University ,
Neurosurgery

Harvard University ,
GSAS, HBS, KSG

  • Milan Boran

    Email: milan.boran@post.harvard.edu
    Homepage: www.GermanScholarsBoston.net

    Comments:

    Auf der Homepage von GSB - GermanScholarsBoston.net findet Ihr alle Treffs der Bostoner Stipendiaten. Ueber unser "EVENTS telegram" erfahrt Ihr jede Menge zu interessanten Veranstaltungen im laufenden Monat. Wir haben ca 1700 Deutschsprechende in unsere Gruppe: sehr viele Studienstiftler und andere Stipendiaten, Wissenschaftler, Professoren, aber auch Praktiker, die eine excellente akademische Ausbildung genossen haben zuvor. Welcome!

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

  • Christina Scheel
    9 Cambridge Center
    02142 Cambridge, MA

    Email: scheel@wi.mit.edu

    Comments:

    I was a scholar of the Studienstiftung from 1996 to 2003 and am now an MD/PhD postdoc with a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship in basic cancer research.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Mechanical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Chemical Engineering

Michigan

Michigan State University ,
Physics/Mathematics

  • Johannes Grote
    1550 Woodbrook Drive #24
    East Lansing, Michigan 48823

    Email: grotejoh@msu.edu

    Comments:

    I am working towards a dual major Ph.D in mathematics and physics in the Beam Theory and Dynamical Systems Group at Michigan State. My research field are numerical methods for the solutions of differential equations and nonlinear optimization problems.

    I will probably complete my degree sometime in 2007, and until then I am ready to assist with questions concerning graduate studies and student life in the US in general and at Michigan State in particular.

Michigan State University ,
Mathematics

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New Jersey

Princeton University ,
Romance Languages and Literatures

New York

Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Pediatrics

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Biology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Columbia University ,
Ophthalmology & Vision Sciences

  • Anna K. Junk
    4901 Henry Hudson Parkway West
    Apt. 5N
    Riverdale, NY 10471

    Email: ajunk@montefiore.org, akj19@columbia.edu
    Homepage: www.columbia.edu/~akj19

    Comments:

    Currently, I am a resident in Ophthalmology at Montefiore Medical Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I did two postdoc research fellowships, one at Columbia University (see my homepage) and one at the Rose Kennedy Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Within the limitations of a full time residency I work with both labs and will be happy to assist if you are looking for an entry into ophthalmic research in either institution.

North Carolina

Duke University ,
Physics

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Ohio

The Ohio State University ,
Radiology

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Pennsylvania

Drexel University ,
Finance

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Texas

Texas State University ,
School of Music

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Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ,
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Canada

Alberta

University of Calgary ,
Computer Science Department

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Ontario

University of Waterloo ,
Depts. of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Institute for Quantum Computing, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

  • Dr. Achim Kempf
    Department of Applied Mathematics
    200 University Avenue West
    Waterloo, N2L 2J9
    CANADA

    Email: akempf mit domain uwaterloo dot ca
    Homepage: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~akempf/

    Comments:

    Waterloo is 100km West of Toronto, at the same latitude as Florence, Italy. The Faculty of Mathematics at Waterloo is one of the largest world-wide and attracts some of the best students in North America. Since recently, Waterloo is fast becoming one of the major international centres for Mathematical Physics, helped by the founding in 2001 of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (www.perimeterinstitute.ca) with a private endowment of more than 120 Mio$.

    I occasionally accept new graduate students and I offer funding to those who are accepted. There are also opportunities for 4-month summer research studentships.

    Research areas:

  • The physics of information
  • Cosmology
  • Quantum gravity

    Quick Vita:

  • 2004- today: Canada Research Chair in the Physics of Information.
  • 2001: Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Waterloo
  • 1998-2001: Fellow of the Institute for Fundamental Theory, University of Florida, USA
  • 1993-1998: Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 1993-1995 as BASF-Studienstiftung Postdoc Fellow
  • 1995-1998 as Research Fellow of a Cambridge College (Corpus)
  • 1993 PhD: Univ. Munich (LMU), Germany. Advisor: J. Wess (with Stu-sti scholarship)
  • 1983-1990: Undergraduate studies at Heidelberg University

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