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.
Global Faculty Members by Key Profile Areas
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
Social and Economic Behavior
- 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 Distinguished Chair of Management Economics, University of Texas at Dallas - Prof. Elena Katok, PhD
Ashok and Monica Mago Professor, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX - Prof. Paul A. M. van Lange
Professor of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Prof. Nira Liberman, PhD
Professor of Social Psychology at Tel Aviv University - Prof. Dr. Mattias Polborn
Professor of Economics and Political Science, Vanderbuilt University
Quantum Matter and Materials
- Dr. Daniele Fazzi
Senior Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Bologna - 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. Dr. Pavlos Kollias
Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY; Atmospheric Scientist, Dept. Environmental Sciences, Brookhaven National Laboratory - 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
Global South Studies
- 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. Claudia Leal
Professor of History and Geography, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - Prof. Ciraj Rassool, PhD
Senior Professor of History, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town - Prof. Dan Smyer Yü
Professor of Ethnology, the National Centre for Borderland Ethnic Studies, Yunnan University
Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition Members
- Prof. Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of South Australia (UniSA) and Head of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory within the Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE) - Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg
Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK - Prof. Matthias Schlesewsky
Professor of Psychology at the University of South Australia
Intelligent Methods for Earth System Sciences
- Prof. Artur Czumaj
Professor of Computer Science and Director of Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP), University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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