The International Faculty Program of
the University of Cologne
The International Faculty Program is a cornerstone of the internationalization strategy for the four 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 international faculty members are made for two years with the option of being extended.
International 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 International 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. Andrew Dillin
Professor of Genetics, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of Berkeley - 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. 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
KPA IV: Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Transformations in the Gobal 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
CA III: Quantitative modelling of complex systems
- Prof. Pavlos Kollias, PhD
Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, of Stony Brook University – State University of New York
Atmospheric Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY
Former members of the International Faculty