Excellence Initiative: Newly appointed junior professors and junior research group leaders

Free Floating Junior Research Groups
Dr. Cornelia Kristen, University of Leipzig – Sociology
Junior research group “Ethnic Educational Inequality”
Dr. Magdalena Schwager, University of Frankfurt – Linguistics
Junior research group “Noun Phrases in Intensional Constructions”
Dr. Morag Josephine Grant, University of Frankfurt – Linguistics
Junior research group “Noun Phrases in Intensional Constructions”
Dr. Max Wardetzky, Free University of Berlin – Mathematics
Junior research group “Discrete Differential Geometry”


Junior research groups at the Courant Research Centre “Nanospectroscopy and X-ray Imaging”
Dr. Sarah Köster, Harvard University (USA) – Physics
Nachwuchsgruppe „Nanoscale Imaging of Cellular Dynamics“
Dr. Claus Ropers, Max-Born-Institute, Berlin – Physics
Max-Born-Institute, Berlin – Physics


Junior research groups at the Courant Research Centre “Higher Order Structures in Mathematics”
Dr. Hannah Markwig, University of Michigan (USA) – Mathematics
Junior research group “Tropical Algebraic Geometry”
Dr. Dorothea Bahns, University of Hamburg – Mathematics
Junior research group “Non-commutative Geometry and Mathematical Physics”
Dr. Chenchang Zhu, Institute Fourier, St Martin d’Hères (France) – Mathematics
Junior research group “Topology and Differential Geometry”


Junior research groups at the Courant Research Centre “Geobiology – the development of early life and interactive processes of organic compounds in the formation of minerals and rock”
Dr. Sharmishtha Dattagupta, University of Queensland (Australia) – Geobiology
Junior research group “Evolution of Metazoa”
Dr. Daniel Jackson, University of Queensland (Australien) – Geobiologie
Nachwuchsgruppe „Evolution of Metazoa“
Dr. Alexander Schmidt, Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University Berlin -Palaeobiology
Junior research group “Evolution of Landplants and the Development of Terrestrial Ecosystems”



Junior research group at the Courant Research Centre “Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical methods and empirical analyses“
Dr. Tatyana Krivobokova, Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) – Statistics
Junior research group “Econometrics and Statistical Methods”


Junior research group at the Courant Research Centre “The Evolution of Social Behaviour: comparative studies on human and non-human primates”
Dr. Julia Ostner, Max-Planck-Institute for evolutionary anthropology, Leipzig –
Social Ecology
Junior research group “Social Evolution in Primates”
Dr. Dirk Semmann, University of Vienna (Austria) – Evolutionary ecology
Junior research group “Influence of Behavioural Traits on Individual Reputation”