Fellow Period 2009–2016

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Fellowship model

Between 2004 and 2020, the Collegium followed a “long-term-part-time-fellowship” model. Within this model, a small core group of professors from Swiss universities were selected by the Board of Trustees and appointed as fellows. During their four-year terms at the Collegium, the fellows continued to hold their professorships and related duties at their respective universities and worked on their transdisciplinary Collegium projects on a part-time basis. During the fellow period of 2009 to 2014, the core group included seven fellows—from the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, and the University of Basel.

Each year, a guest mainly from the fields of art or cultural studies would be invited to join the Collegium, enriching the dialogue and expanding the scope of inquiry.

Next to this, the Collegium regularly hosted visiting researchers through The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme. This program, which ran from 2010 until 2019, was an international researcher mobility program initiated by the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS), and was funded by the Marie Curie Actions Research Fellowship Programme and by the European Commission through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The Collegium took part in this program from 2015 until 2019, as one of 19 institutes across 14 countries.

Projects “Reproducibility”

During their tenure at the Collegium, the seven fellows focused on the common theme of “reproducibility.” In close partnership with their postdoctoral and doctoral researchers, they developed a range of transdisciplinary projects and initiatives that bridged disciplinary boundaries. Among them were the following main subprojects:

• Border Negotiations in Science: Between Innovation and Reproduction
  Team: Alex Eberle, Wulf Rössler, Sabine Maasen, Martin Reinhart, Carolin Lindner
• Drug Development: Significance and Predictive Value of Animal Experiments
  Team: August Schubiger, Marianne Martic-Kehl, Engelbert Zass, Andreas Pospischil, Angelika Steger, Harald Atmanspacher, Gerd Folkers
• One Medicine—One Oncology: Incidence and Geographical Distribution of Tumors in Dogs and Cats in Switzerland 1953–2008
  Team: Andreas Pospischil, Kay Axhausen, Sara Fabrikant, Marco Salvini, Mildred Niederheitmann, Katrin Grüntzig, Ramona Graf, Gianluca Boo, Nadja S. Schenker, Franco Guscetti, Daniel Erni, Michael Hässig
• Decision Processes in Unstable Mental States: The Effect of Unstable Cognitive-Emotional States on Decision Behavior
  Team: Wulf Rössler, Hansruedi Heinimann, Harald Atmanspacher, Florence Hagenmuller, Helene Haker, Jannis Wernery, Amrei Wittwer
• Exceptional Experience, Salience and Dopaminergic Neurotransmission
  Team: Wulf Rössler, Gerd Folkers, August Schubiger, Harald Atmanspacher, Peter Brugger, Helene Haker, Wolfram Kawohl, Peter Krummenacher, Thomas Wyss, Amrei Wittwer
• The Role of (Acces to) Information in the Swiss Health Care System: A Multi-Perspective Analysis Based on the Example of Depressive Disorders
  Team: Gerd Folkers, Wulf Rössler, Stefan Sigrist, Helene Haker, Andrea S. Dür
• Informed Consent: A Synthesis of Descriptive and Normative Aspects
  Team: Andrea Büchler, Sandra Hotz, Wulf Rössler
• Reproducibility in Photography and the Value of the Unique
  Team: Hans Danuser, Gerd Folkers, Marco Meier, Reinhard Nesper
• Our Brain: Heavily Relying on Probability Theory
  Team: Angelika Steger, P. August Schubiger, Gerd Folkers
• Toward a Science of Music Performance
  Team: Victor Candia, Horst Hildebrandt

The Collegium further supported follow-up projects from earlier research cycles, as well as a range of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects initiated by fellows and/or their staff.

Directorship, board, and staff

Management board

Director: Gerd Folkers
Associate Director: Hartmut von Sass
Head of Communication: Martin Schmid
Organisation/Finance/HR Dept.: Andrea Truttmann

Executive staff members

Harald Atmanspacher
Elvan Kut Bacs

Assistant staff

Assistant Communication: Andrea Ganz Heusser
Assistant Organisation/Staff/Finances: Valentin Oberholzer
Assistant Events: Sophie Trösch
Management Board and personal Assistant of Gerd Folkers: Samuel C. Zinsli

Academic staff

Simone Achermann
Sabine Baier
Gianluca Boo
Barbara Brandmaier
Karim Bschir
Victor Candia
Rainer Egloff Brauer
Johannes Fehr
Erich Otto Graf
Ramona Graf
Katrin Grüntzig
Helene Haker Rössler
Daniel Janisch
Pawel Jarnicki
Marlen Karlen
Muriel Keller
Alexandra Kleihues
Peter Krummenacher
Sandra Lang
Karin Landolt
Marianne Martić-Kehl
Annina Meyer
Moritz Meyer
Ulrike Meyer Stump
Christian Pohl
Friederike Rass
Martin Reinhart
Julian Rössler
Beatrix Rubin Lucht
Stephan Sigrist
Sebastian Ulbrich
Lui Unterrassner
Henrike Wiemer
Amrei Wittwer
Diana Wotruba
Thomas Wyss