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