The Global Faculty Program of
the University of Cologne

The Global Faculty Program is a cornerstone of the internationalization strategy for the Key Profile Areas defined in the UoC’s Institutional Strategy. The program aims at attracting outstanding international researchers who already collaborate closely with researchers based at the UoC. It targets the Key Profile Areas, increasing their visibility and competitiveness at the international level. The program will also contribute to the internationalization of teaching especially at the post-graduate level and is steered by the Prorector for Academic Career, Diversity and International Affairs in close collaboration with the Key Profile Areas. Contracts with global faculty members are made for two years with the option of being extended.

Global faculty contribute to the scientific and academic tasks and duties of the KPAs. A minimum presence in Cologne of six weeks per contractual year is required as well as close collaboration with the regular faculty of the UoC. Professors recruited through the program will directly participate in the mentoring of doctoral candidates.

Members of the Global Faculty
 

KPA I: Aging-associated Diseases

• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brandt
  Full Professor for Mitochondrial Molecular Medicine at the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen and Adjunct Professor for Biochemistry at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main
• Prof. Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, PhD
  Department of Genetics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Sara A. Wickström, MD, PhD
  Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Helsinki Institute for Life Science (HiLIFE),University of Helsinki

KPA II: Behavioral Economic Engineering and Social Cognition

• Prof. Dirk Bergemann, PhD
  Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
• Prof. Gary E. Bolton, PhD
  O. P. Jindal Chair Professor of Management Economics, University of Texas at Dallas
• Prof. Elena Katok, PhD
  Ashbel Smith Professor, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
• Prof. Nira Liberman, PhD
  Professor of Social Psychology at Tel Aviv University
• Prof. Dr. Mattias Polborn
  Professor of Economics and Political Science, Vanderbuilt University
• Prof. Martin C. Schmalz, PhD
  Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

 
KPA III: Quantum Matter and Materials

• Prof. Gary Fuller, PhD
  Professor of Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA), University of Manchester
• Prof. Yuval Gefen
  Professor of Condensed Matter Physics , Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Prof. Xiaonan Ma, PhD
  Professor of Mathematics at Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7 
• Prof. Fulvio Parmigiani, PhD
  Professor of condensed matter at the department of physics, faculty of Science, of the Università degli Studi of Trieste
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Wiegele
  Department of Mathematics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt

 
KPA IV: Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Transformations in the Global South

• Prof. David M. Anderson, PhD
  Professor of African History, Global History & Culture Centre at the University of Warwick
• Prof. Mary Lawhon, PhD
  Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geoscience, University of Edinburgh
• Prof. Dan Smyer Yü
  Professor of Ethnology, the National Centre for Borderland Ethnic Studies, Yunnan University
   

Faculty of Law

• Prof. Adam Bodnar, (dr hab)
  Professor of Law at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.

Former members of the Global Faculty