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The Gutenberg Research College (GRC), established in 2007, serves as a central strategic instrument to promote cutting-edge research at JGU. It runs an annual budget of EUR 2 million, provided in equal parts by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Its executive committee is made up of outstanding researchers from JGU and its partner research institutions. Committee members are appointed by the University President with the agreement of the University Senate based on their research achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GRC has two functions: It advises the President and the Senate in strategic matters concerning research and furthers individual excellence by awarding fellowships to excellent researchers and artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GRC fellowships offer first class research conditions to excellent researchers and artists. They can be granted as external GRC fellowships in order to bring researchers and artists to Mainz. They also can be used as internal GRC fellowships to support outstanding members of JGU. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The GRC annually awards the Gutenberg Research Award to outstanding international researchers. The GRC is continuing the tradition of the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” who initiated the Gutenberg Research Award in 2006 and granted it to outstanding researchers in the field of materials science. In 2012, the responsibility for the Gutenberg Research Award has been transferred to the GRC, which is eliciting proposals from all faculties of JGU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Besides promoting individual excellence in the form of GRC fellowships and thus supporting key academic areas, the GRC offers strategic advice to the executive university board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GRC has thus decisively contributed to the shaping of JGU’s research profile in the context of the research initiative of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The GRC has also supported JGU’s proposals for the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Even its funding instrument of GRC fellowships is linked to strategic considerations, e.g. with the recruitment of excellent researchers to crucial professorships as GRC fellows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One of the goals of the GRC is the reinforcement of interdisciplinary cooperation of excellent research fields at JGU. For this purpose, the GRC has established the GRC Network. Members of the GRC Network are the GRC fellows, the members of the Executive Committee and of the Academic Advisory Board as well as the academic members of the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program. With the goal of extending the scope of perspectives, the GRC regularly invites members of the faculties and representatives of important research partners of JGU (e.g. MPI, Helmholtz Institute, Leibniz Institutes, IMB) to participate in this informal exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n

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    Panagiotis Agapitos is Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture at the University of Cyprus. As a GRC fellow, he will pursue his research at the History Department at JGU and collaborate with his colleagues in the department of Byzantine Studies, at the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Byzantium between Orient and Occident” and at the Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He has contributed substantially to the academic progress of Byzantine Studies worldwide by developing the field at the University of Cyprus and by teaching at established international universities (Harvard, Berlin, Paris, Stanford). He is widely known for introducing modern literary theory to interpret Medieval Greek texts. His monograph on Late Byzantine vernacular romances, as well as several of his essays on narratology and genre theory, pioneered the introduction of new methods into the study of Byzantine literature. As a GRC at JGU, he will build upon his recent research on periodization and methodology of writing a postmodern literary history,and prepare the publication of a “A Narrative History of Byzantine Literature, AD 1050-1500”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Since April 2021, Dorothee Dormann is a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Adjunct Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) at Mainz. She is an internationally leading researcher in the field of molecular neurodegeneration. In particular, she investigates how nuclear transport processes, phase separation, RNA processing functions and post-translational modifications of RNA-binding proteins are regulated in healthy cells and how these processes are disrupted in neurodegenerative diseases and during aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Before joining JGU, Dr. Dormann was an independent research group leader at LMU Munich, supported by an Emmy Noether fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). For her research she received numerous awards, including the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Award in 2014 and the Paul Ehrlich und Ludwig Darmst\u00e4dter Prize for Young Researchers in 2019. Recently she has received funding by the DFG for a Heisenberg professorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With her research, she will further enhance research in the life sciences at Mainz, especially in the Top-level Research Area “Resilience, Adapatation and Longevity” (ReALity), and she will cooperate with researchers from numerous institutes in Mainz and the Rhine-Main area, in particular in the areas of gene regulation, genome stability, neurobiology, stress resilience and longevity\/ageing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Jan Esper is a professor for climatology at JGU since 2010. He currently aims to solve the important problem of divergence in the tree ring record, which is an enigmatic issue that is not completely understood. He has been at the forefront of modern dendroclimatology for much of the last two decades, with a focus on the development of long tree-ring based climate reconstructions that preserve low frequency variability. His studies have been particularly important in understanding the climatic history of the Northern Hemisphere, and the effects of explosive volcanic eruptions on extreme climatic conditions and the consequences for tree growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He has been elected as member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. In early 2020, he has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study climate-induced tree growth changes in Northern Hemisphere forests. As a GRC fellow, he will establish quantitative wood anatomy as a new research direction and expand his research collaborations with his colleagues at JGU and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Stefan Hirschauer is professor for sociological theory and gender studies at JGU. He is an expert in sociological theory, qualitative social research, sociology of the body, science studies and gender studies. He has contributed decisively to the development of these different fields by introducing new theoretical and methodological concepts. Among his best-known works are his book on the social construction of transsexuality, the anthology on the alienation of one’s own culture \u2013 a standard work on ethnographic research, co-edited by him \u2013 as well as his repeatedly reprinted essays “On Doing Being a Stranger. The Practical Constitution of Civil Inattention” in which he explores the constitution of strangeness in elevators and “The Manufacture of Bodies in Surgery”, a paradigmatic ethnographic science study of medicine. He has received several awards for his publications and is regularly invited to lectures and workshops at sociological and other cultural studies institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From 2013 to 2019, Stefan Hirschauer initiated and led the interdisciplinary DFG research unit “Un\/doing Differences. Practices in Human Differentiation” at JGU and he has published several widely acclaimed articles and an anthology on this topic in recent years. As a GRC fellow, he will build on the research of this group in order to further develop his empirically grounded theory of human differentiation and thus make various phenomena of the cultural classification of people \u2013 according to age, gender, achievement, ethnicity, “race”, nation, religion, etc. \u2013 comparable and translatable into each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Maria Ivanova-Bieg received her doctorate at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at T\u00fcbingen University with a dissertation on settlement archaeology and fortification architecture in the Aegean-Anatolian region and the Balkans. Then, she worked at the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Frankfurt am Main, at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Since 2023, Maria Ivanova-Bieg has been professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Department of Ancient Studies at JGU. Her research focuses on the intersection between Archaeology, Anthropology and the Sciences. With a methodological focus coming from the Humanities but, above all, the Sciences, she studies material culture in terms of social, cultural and ecological connectivity, focussing on trans-regional, trans-continental developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the last years, she initiated several international research projects, dealing with key topics in Prehistoric Archaeology such as the spread of the earliest agro-pastoral societies, the development of socio-political complexity in the Copper Age of Europe and the emergence of long-range networks in the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions. She integrates methods of bioarchaeology and computational modelling in order to reconstruct the environment, living conditions and life histories of humans, animals and plants in the past. Research projects include isotope analyses of biological remains and studies of biomolecular residues in ceramics from archaeological contexts. At JGU, Maria Ivanova-Bieg intends to continue this line of research together with her colleagues at Mainz and \u2013 among other topics \u2013 to analyse concepts of sustainable living in remote history that may be a useful complement to current discussions about sustainability and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Gerhard Lauer successfully combines philological research questions with a book studies approach. He conducted high profile research in literary history and endorsed a thorough rethinking of important concepts used in literary studies in the late 1990s, which led to a noticeable gain in clarity in terminology and methods in literary studies. Furthermore, he is considered one of the pioneers of the introduction of questions and methods of digital humanities into German studies. This paradigm shift led him to research empirically how texts and stories are structured, shared, and how they are read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After professorships in G\u00f6ttingen and Basel, Gerhard Lauer will continue his research as professor of book studies at JGU and focus on empirical reading studies and digital humanities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Johannes Lipps took up a professorship in Classical Archaeology with a focus on Roman architecture and urban studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in fall 2019. Since his doctorate in Cologne on “The Basilica Aemilia at the Forum Romanum. Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik” in 2008, he has become known as an internationally renowned archaeologist for his cultural-historical studies of individual buildings in Rome, Pompeii and the Roman provinces. His work opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the ancient world due to its comprehensive material base and methodological rigor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Over the next few years, he will be researching wars, resource scarcity, migration, religious developments and other challenges that Roman cities faced against different historical backgrounds. Case studies are planned in Pompeii, Rome, Tunisia and Germany. In his research, he will cooperate closely with his co-workers in the core research area “40,000 Years of Human Challenges: Perception, Conceptualization and Coping in Premodern Societies”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    M\u00e1ria Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 is a well\u2010known expert in numerics and analysis of partial differential, in mathematical modelling and scientific computing. Problems that she studies arise from fluid mechanics, statistical physics, geophysics, meteorology, engineering and medicine. She deals with hyperbolic conservation laws, which are fundamental for most of physical, biological and mechanical processes. Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 made important contributions to the development of genuinely multidimensional, asymptotic preserving and well\u2010balanced finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic conservation laws. Her further interests concern development of structure preserving schemes for complex multiscale problems and study of fluid\u2010structure interaction problems for non\u2010Newtonian fluids, in particular those arising in hemodynamics and soft matter systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    M\u00e1ria Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 is a member of the steering committee of the Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling (M3<\/sup>ODEL), vice speaker of the collaborative research center “Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems”, and researcher at the collaborative research center “Waves to Weather”. All of these research centers profit considerably from her expertise in mathematical modelling and numerical simulations of complex fluid flows that arise in the multiscale systems investigated. Her main aim is to apply well-established mathematical and computational techniques and to generalize and extend them to particular models arising in atmospheric science, geophysics and statistical physics in order to answer challenging scientific questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The biochemist Christoph Reinhardt received his PhD in human biology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. His research focused on the pathomechanisms of immunothrombosis, a central function of the innate immune system in microcirculation, which prevents the systemic spread of invasive microorganisms in the event of infection by activating plasmatic coagulation. During his post-doctoral work as EU Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research at the University of Gothenburg, he investigated the role of the intestinal microbiome and the signaling mechanisms induced by coagulation factors that promote vascularization of the small intestine. In order to decipher vascular microbiota-host interactions, Christoph Reinhardt established germ-free mouse isolator technology (gnotobiotics) as part of his junior professorship at the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) at the University Medical Center Mainz. He uses this technology to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms that act on the vascular system through the microbial colonization of body surfaces and thus influence the development of cardiovascular diseases. His research group was able to show for the first time that the microbiome promotes arterial thrombus formation. As a GRC fellow, he will continue to develop this research area, an innovative conceptual link between immunology and vascular biology, at JGU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Following her doctorate in M\u00fcnster, Marion Silies conducted her postdoctoral research at Stanford University and headed the Emmy Noether- and ERC-funded junior research group “Visual Processing” at the European Neuroscience Institute in G\u00f6ttingen before coming to Mainz in 2019 as Professor of Neurobiology. In Mainz, she will combine her experience in the fields of neuronal development and functional neurobiology and continue her research on the cellular mechanisms and neuronal networks of information processing in the brain, in particular the processing of visual information in Drosophila. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Sebastian Sternal, professor for jazz piano and jazz ensemble at the Mainz School of Music, studied in Cologne and Paris and has worked with jazz greats like Dee Dee Bridgewater, David Binney and John Riley. His concert tours took him all over the world. He won numerous prizes, such as the WDR Jazzpreis 2007, the Concours piano jazz Martial Solal 2010, Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2014, Annual Award of the German Schallplattenkritik 2015, and the ECHO Jazz in 2013, 2016, and 2018. His project Sternal Symphonic Society combines young musicians from jazz and classical music. In 2017, his trio album “Home” with Larry Grenadier and Jonas Burgwinkel was released and celebrated by the audience and professionals alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As part of his GRC fellowship, Sternal plans the development of the Jazz Campus Mainz, which will include the implementation of a European ensemble as well as the establishment of a Jazz Summer School and a university big band.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Carsten Streb has been professor of inorganic chemistry at JGU since 2022. He investigates molecular metal oxides, so called polyoxometalates as building blocks for functional materials. These are small, self-contained units that in turn are crafted from subunits at the molecular level. He has developed novel concepts to build up polyoxometalates from these units. The control of the assembly of these units into larger aggregates has been a major step towards nano-structured materials with tailored properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    His research spans a bridge between molecular chemistry and solid-state\/materials chemistry, and he has managed to bring together previously disjunct fields of research such as metal oxide chemistry and ionic liquid chemistry, soft matter design and redox-switchability, as well as molecular electronics and spintronics, redox- and photo-switchable materials, organic-inorganic hybrids and multifunctional solar energy conversion systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At an early age, Carsten Streb has already become one of the most highly cited and most acknowledged researchers in the molecular metal oxide community and in inorganic chemistry in Europe. Recently, he has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant with the aim to explore the polymerization of metal oxides and gain control over the structure and reactivity of such materials. At JGU, he will contribute to the field of sustainable chemistry, where his innovative materials concepts for resource-efficient catalysis and upcycling of bio-feedstocks will become cornerstones of this new research field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Since October 2020, Andreas Walther has been professor for Macromolecular Materials and Systems at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Before coming to JGU, he was professor for Functional Polymers at the University of Freiburg and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence livMatS “Living, Adaptive and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems”. He has published numerous widely-read articles in leading journals. In recent years, he has been supported with an ERC Starting Grant and as a fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), and he has been honored with several awards for excellent young researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Walther Lab develops hierarchical self-assembly concepts inside and outside equilibrium, and connects those to (bio)macromolecular materials research. The long-term efforts are directed towards energy-driven and feedback-controlled non-equilibrium systems to realize next-generation, adaptive, active and autonomously dynamic soft materials with life-like properties. He is considered one of the leading scientists in bioinspired and life-inspired macromolecular materials and systems and will collaborate with his colleagues in Mainz to expand the research areas of macromolecular systems engineering and sustainable materials at JGU and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The GRC annually awards the Gutenberg Research Award to outstanding international researchers. It is continuing the tradition of the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” who initiated the Gutenberg Research Award in 2006 and granted it to outstanding researchers in the field of materials science. In 2012, the responsibility for the Gutenberg Research Award has been transferred to the GRC, who will be eliciting proposals from all faculties of JGU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Professor Johannes Kabatek from the University of Zurich (UZH) is Professor of Romance Philology, with a special focus on Ibero-Romance linguistics. In 2020, he became the Director of UZH’s Competence Center Language & Medicine. Johannes Kabatek is one of the most renowned Romance linguists in the German-speaking world and beyond. His remarkable academic achievements include ten monographs and 24 edited books as well as more than 140 academic papers and about 200 lectures given. Over the years, Kabatek has also made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of early-career researchers. About one in every three of the 25 scholars who completed their doctoral and professorial dissertations under his supervision now hold professorships in countries such as Germany, Austria, Spain, Brazil, and Switzerland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Johannes Kabatek was born in Stuttgart in 1965. He studied, amongst other subjects, Romance Philology and Political Science at the University of T\u00fcbingen. He obtained his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on language contact in Northwest Spain, which has since become a standard reference at international level. Professor Kabatek’s habilitation thesis similarly goes beyond the limits of linguistics. It is a key piece of scholarly work for Europe’s legal, intellectual, and cultural history, in which Kabatek manages to bridge the divide between different academic disciplines in a unique and impressive way. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Paola Arlotta is Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. She is rewarded for her pioneering discoveries regarding brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders as well as her innovative approaches towards brain repair. She studied biochemistry at the University of Trieste and was awarded a Ph.D. in molecular biology by the University of Portsmouth before she relocated to Harvard University. There she focused her research on the development of the cerebral cortex and succeeded in refuting the long-held view that neuronal identity remains irrevocably fixed in the brain and has thus helped opening up a completely new field of research. In the recent past, Arlotta was able to generate organoids of the cerebral cortex from human stem cells. This has formed the basis for modelling the development of the human cerebral cortex and has resulted in the discovery of core mechanisms underlying developmental disorders of the nervous system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Rainer Blatt is a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck. Here he heads one of the world’s leading research groups in the field of trapped ion quantum computing that creates simulation algorithms for use in research on solid-state physics, molecular physics, and high energy physics. Blatt is among the world’s most prominent researchers in his field and he enjoys an outstanding reputation. He has made a major contribution to quantum optics by means of his pioneering experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Wil Roebroeks is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University. His research focus is on Neanderthals and other (earlier) Eurasian hominins. Among other things, he investigates how these primeval humans used fire, managed to subsist, produced stone tools, and even changed the environment around them. For this he employs data that he has collected during extensive excavations in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Russia, Germany, and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Wil Roebroeks is one of the world’s leading researchers in his field. Through his work, he has been able to provide fundamental insights into the earliest human settlement of Europe and Asia. Moreover, he is actively involved in promoting the research community in any number of ways. From 2011 to 2021, Roebroeks was Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) and a member of the advisory boards of various specialist journals and research institutions, including the R\u00f6misch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) in Mainz and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). He holds a number of honors, including the Spinoza Prize \u2013 the most distinguished academic award of the Netherlands \u2013 and the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation that is given to outstanding international researchers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Corine Defrance’s connections to Mainz reach back to the time she was writing her dissertation, in which she analyzed the fundamentals of French cultural policy in occupied Germany from 1945 to 1955 and in this context the reestablishment of Mainz University. She also dedicated later research to the history of Mainz University, using sources in the local university archive for this purpose and collaborating with researchers at JGU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Adela Yarbro Collins is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation Emerita at Yale University. John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation and works also at Yale. Both have made and are still making enormously important contributions to scholarship on the history and literature of the Second Temple Period (from approximately 520 before the common era to the year 70 of the common era), Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Their oeuvre includes a vast number of monographs, articles in leading scholarly journals, editorial activities, and involvement in international conferences and meetings. In addition to their expertise in biblical literature, they are excellent and leading scholars in the areas of the history of religion, Jewish Studies, and Christian origins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    An important topic that both are continuously working on involves the ideas and literature of “apocalypticism.” The motifs and thoughts of this large movement in Early Judaism and Early Christianity are still vibrant today. While John Collins tends to focus upon the earlier period, including the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and Early Jewish literature, Adela Yarbro Collins pursues this phenomenon in the era of Early Christianity, that is the period of the New Testament and related apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the early seventies, John Collins formulated a definition of “apocalypse” and “apocalypticism” that became a standard in the entire field of biblical studies. His seminal work, “The Apocalyptic Imagination,” reached now its third edition. The scholarly community regards this book and John\u2019s commentary in the Hermeneia series on the “apocalypse” of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Daniel, meanwhile as classics. John Collins is also well known for his important studies and publications on the non-biblical literature found at Qumran. He is, however, not only one of the premiere specialists on apocalyptic and Qumran literature but also an excellent teacher. His general “Introduction to the Hebrew Bible” is now available in a second edition. As an acknowledgement for his outstanding performance, his scholarship and teaching, John Collins received an honorary degree from University College Dublin in 2009 and from the University of Zurich in 2015. Recently, he has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Adela Yarbro Collins received a “Doctor theologiae honoris causae” from the University of Oslo in 1994 and an “Ehrendoktor” from the University of Zurich in 2015. Her first book, “The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation,” was very influential within New Testament scholarship and the study of the history of Early Christianity, as it revived the history of religions approach to this apocalyptic work. Subsequently, Adela Yarbro Collins fostered innovative research on the book of Revelation in “Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse” by introducing social psychology to the study of this text and bringing this approach to bear on the interpretation of a somewhat strange but nevertheless fascinating writing of Early Christianity. Her commentary on the Gospel of Mark is another very important work, published in the leading series of American biblical commentaries, Hermeneia. In addition to the commentary, she contributed many publications to the research on the Gospel of Mark in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Karin Knorr Cetina is Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her academic biography shows us a true cosmopolitan and interdisciplinary researcher. After her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna and a post-doctoral diploma in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, she worked at several American universities, before coming to the University of Bielefeld where she acted as professor of sociology for almost twenty years. In 2001, she moved to the University of Konstanz and since 2010, she has been acting as distinguished professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Knorr Cetina is known, among other things, for her innovative studies of the working methods and practical rationality employed by natural scientists and foreign exchange traders. In 1981, Karin Knorr Cetina has published the pioneering monograph “The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science.” She used ethnographic and anthropological methods to analyze the scientific practices within a laboratory in order to understand how natural scientists produce facts and knowledge in their everyday work. This groundbreaking study marked the breakthrough of a whole new field of research called \u201csocial studies of science.\u201d She inspired generations of students and their empirical studies of the social construction of scientific knowledge. In 1999, she published “Epistemic Cultures. How the Sciences Make Knowledge.” By thoroughly investigating and comparing scientific practices in high-energy physics and in molecular biology, she highlighted the importance of knowledge cultures in the generation of scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the 1990s, Karin Knorr Cetina started her research on another highly influential form of knowledge and analyzed how financial markets create economic knowledge. She and her team accompanied market participants at work, mainly traders on foreign exchange markets, and analyzed the interaction between trading transactions, the economic knowledge of the dealers and the visual presentations of the virtual market on the screen. Knorr Cetina published the results of her studies in several widely received articles. Soon her new book “Maverick Markets: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets” will sum up many results of her research on financial markets in the last decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Karin Knorr Cetina has produced many new insights on science and financial markets as two of the most influential fields of modern societies. Recently, she has published several articles and is preparing a book where she intends to draw a theoretical synthesis from her seminal empirical studies. She analyzes modern society as a “synthetic society” that may be characterized by the coupling of human action with technical artefacts and virtual systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Vishva Dixit grew up in Kenya and received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nairobi before continuing his research at the Washington University School of Medicine and later the University of Michigan Medical School where he became Professor at the Department of Pathology. In 1997, he left university to continue his research as Director of the Department of Molecular Oncology at the biotechnology company Genentech. Today he holds the position as Vice President for Early Discovery Research at Genentech and Director of their Postdoctoral Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dixit is famous for several path-breaking contributions to biomedical research, many of which are decorating the textbooks already. He is best-known for his research that laid the foundation on programmed cell death and inflammation. Apoptosis as one form of programmed cell death was still a mysterious process in the early 1990s, and the mechanisms driving this fundamentally important cellular process were completely unclear. Dr. Dixit and his lab identified the components of this cell death pathway and defined the mechanisms driving this fundamental cellular process. Furthermore, Dixit made seminal contributions to the study of inflammation and immunity by defining the components of inflammasome. He was able to explain how the bacterial signals are recognized by the host immune system. More recently, Dixit’s lab deciphered how “ubiquitination”, one of the most versatile modes of protein modification contributes to tumorigenesis, inflammation, autoimmunity and diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Vishva Dixit has been a pioneer and a distinguished and much acclaimed scholar in the biomedical field for several decades and his works have dramatically altered our understanding of the molecular events required for programmed cell death and inflammation. In addition to his contributions to progress in fundamental research in immunology, biochemistry molecular biology and other fields, his works have already paved a way for developing novel therapeutics in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    On May 4, 2015, the theologian Kwok Pui Lan (Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge\/Massachusetts) and the polymer chemist Kazunori Kataoka (University of Tokyo) received the Gutenberg Research Award 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Professor Kazunori Kataoka is one of the world’s leading polymer chemists, having developed specific polymers for biomedical applications. His nano-transporters are remarkable as they are based on long-chain molecules, i.e., polymers, which are used for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to tumors and for the transport of genetic material in gene therapy. He is a pioneer of a new concept in which the drug is enclosed in micelles. These are aggregates of specially developed polymers. It is possible to specifically guide these nano-transporters to affected tissues or organs. For this purpose, they need to circulate in the blood for a relatively long time so that they eventually accumulate in tumor tissue. Several differently designed polymer micelles that Kataoka has developed for cancer therapy are currently in clinical trials in various countries, including the UK and France. Some of these polymer agents are close to actual application. This would confirm the ultimate breakthrough of this concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professor Kazunori Kataoka has pursued his scientific career mainly in Tokyo, and he has received worldwide recognition and held several guest professorships at European universities. He is Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo and member of numerous scientific societies in Japan and the USA. He has received the highly prestigious Humboldt Research Award for research in collaboration with members of the Mainz-based Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1066 on “Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy” and also the NIMS Award of the Japanese National Institute of Materials Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There are several areas in which Kataoka’s work coincides with the research being conducted in Mainz with its long tradition of experimentation with self-organizing nano-structures based on polymers. Polymer-based medications and nano-transporters based on polymers are regarded as a core area of current polymer research. Corresponding strategies are not only being developed at JGU, but also at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as part of the CRC 1066, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Crucial to the success of this research is the close cooperation with medical groups at the Mainz University Medical Center within the CRC. The first joint projects with the Kataoka work group have already started and include both exchange of PhD students and joint publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Professor Kwok Pui Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work represents a paradigm shift in the historiography of Christian mission. Instead of looking at the spread of Christianity as a movement promoted by the “white man” she includes the history of local Christianities in her research. Kwok has also set new standards in interreligious hermeneutics by demonstrating that in Asia the Bible can only be read in the context of the holy scriptures of other religions. Based on her interdisciplinary approach that integrates feminist and post-colonial theories, Kwok is also highly regarded outside theological circles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Kwok Pui Lan, born in 1952 in the then British colony of Hong Kong, received her education first at the Chinese University in Hong Kong and at the South East Asia Graduate School of Theology. She was awarded a ThD by Harvard University and holds honorary doctorates from universities in the Netherlands and Sweden. The wide recognition she enjoys was shown in her election as President of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 2011, the largest and most influential professional organization for religious studies and theology. Professor Kwok Pui Lan has won several awards for her academic work and for her teaching activities, including the prestigious American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By bestowing on her the Gutenberg Research Award, the GRC is honoring an outstanding representative of post-colonial feminist theology, sending a clear signal to German academic theology to be more open to intercultural issues. The university is thus also linking an internationally recognized Christian intellectual to Mainz, one who prominently speaks out in public debate. This results in far-reaching options for cooperation in the field of intercultural theology as it is represented by the Department of Comparative Religion and Missiology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at JGU. Cooperation is already bearing fruit in the form of the promotion of young research talents and the development of intercultural teaching strategies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Ernst Fehr has been Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Z\u00fcrich since 1994. He is presently chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Z\u00fcrich, where he also serves as director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He has been a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University since 2011 and was an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2003 to 2011. Despite many offers from internationally leading universities, such as Berkeley, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, and New York University, he stayed in Z\u00fcrich and transformed this place into one of the leading places for interdisciplinary approaches to economics in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fehr is clearly one of the best-known and most highly cited economists of the world. He is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary approach to economics who was among the first to cross disciplinary boundaries. His research extends far into the realms of psychology, sociology, biology, medicine and neuroscience. He has numerous top publications in economics. But his interdisciplinary breadth and excellence are particularly evident in the fact that he has published a total of 18 articles in Nature and Science. He also regularly publishes in top psychological and neuroscientific journals, such as Psychological Science<\/em> or Neuron<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Fehr has conducted extensive research on the impact of social preferences on competition, cooperation and on the psychological foundations of incentives. He has shown that fundamental economic and social questions, such as the functioning of markets and organizations or the design of contracts, institutions, and incentives cannot be answered without a deeper understanding of the behavior of individuals and economic actors. Fehr\u2019s research focus is in the areas of social science and economics, but he successfully goes a step further and examines the biological, hormonal, genetic, and neuronal foundations of human behavior. In particular, he was able to demonstrate the importance of no longer viewing people as “Homo Oeconomicus”, i.e. as rational and egoistic people whose only motivation lies in maximizing profits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Mich\u00e8le Lamont is a professor of sociology, European studies and African and American studies at Harvard University. There, she currently also serves as Acting Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In addition to her position at Harvard, she is a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a regular guest at renowned international research institutions, such as the EHESS in Paris, Tel Aviv University, Sciences Po Paris and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Mich\u00e8le Lamont has published more than eighty papers, most of them in internationally acclaimed journals. Several of them were translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and German. Furthermore, she has edited twelve anthologies and has authored three influential, award-winning books that have also been translated into different languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lamont is a bridging personality, being widely acknowledged in sociology, political sciences, cultural anthropology, and science studies. In this respect, her culturally comparative inequality studies are mainly related to a concept in whose theoretical development she was significantly involved: Symbolic boundaries and boundary-making stand for practices of distinction and processes of negotiating cultural hierarchies. She developed this concept in a highly original fusion of European and American social sciences and furthermore as an ‘ethnologist’ through the socio-scientific construction of socio-scientific elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Even beyond the boundaries of academic research, Mich\u00e8le Lamont\u2019s expertise is well-respected and sought after. Among others, she was a member of the French government\u2019s Haut Conseil de la science et de la technologie as well as in the scientific advisory council of Sciences Po. She also works as a consultant for the World Bank and UNESCO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Last but not least, Mich\u00e8le Lamont is actively engaged in the education and advancement of young academics. She refined the institutional support services at Harvard University where she set up a mentoring program for tenure holders. Her extraordinary commitment has so far been acknowledged on two occasions: She was awarded a “Master Mentor” by Harvard University and received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The GRC honors the achievements of Maciej Lewenstein \u2013 one of the leading researchers in the field of quantum physics and beyond, as his work has been highly influential in different branches of physics and other sciences. After graduating from Warsaw University in 1978 he joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 1983, he finished his PhD in Essen and his habilitation in Warsaw in 1986. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the Commissariat \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9nergie atomique in Saclay, and in 1998 he became full professor at the University of Hannover. In 2005 he moved to Spain as ICREA \u2013 the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies \u2013 Research Professor to lead the quantum optics theory group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In the scientific community, he is best-known for his contributions to high-order harmonics generation when matter is exposed to extreme laser field strengths. His articles on Bose-Einstein condensates, or degenerate ultra-cold fermionic atoms are read and cited widely. His proposals in quantum computing are nowadays realized experimentally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Although his research already encompasses a wide range of issues in quantum physics and the neighboring sciences, he still paves direction to new research fields where he contributes with his expertise and creativity. For instance, he has developed novel ideas for quantum simulation and its application both in the description of entanglement and many-body systems, relevant for condensed matter physics, and also for hard problems in high energy physics. His book on quantum phase transitions became quickly a reference in this field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Leonard Talmy, Professor emeritus of Linguistics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, is best known as one of the founding fathers of Cognitive Linguistics. Talmy’s understanding of Cognitive Linguistics is rooted in the conviction that language as a cognitive system shares some of its fundamental design features with other cognitive systems (e.g., the human visual system), but also exhibits characteristics and organizational principles genuine to language alone. Thus, language structures can neither be directly derived from general cognition nor is language to be seen as a completely autonomous model of human cognitive architecture. Talmy’s integrative and encompassive “Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization,” an independent stance within Cognitive Linguistics may well explain why Leonard Talmy’s work has been received and widely appreciated not only by linguists outside the paradigm, but also by developmental psychologists, applied linguists and foreign language teaching experts, and even philosophers. Among his best known and outstanding accomplishments at the interface of language and cognition are seminal studies on motion typology, cross-linguistic representations of space concepts, lexicalization patterns in the languages of the world, an evolutionary model of compositionality in language that is very much compatible with current neuroscientific binding models of neural synchrony. Beyond the core area of cognitive semantics, Leonard Talmy has published influential articles on the culture system and on narrative structure that testify to his rigorously interdisciplinary stance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    His commitment to JGU, especially to its Department of English and Linguistics, has become visible for quite a few years now. From 2008 on, he has, apart from maintaining profound and long-lasting personal relations to individual members of the Department, been an external reviewer in a Habilitation, a guest lecturer in 2009, a consultant to one of the individual component projects in the large-scale research project on “Determinants of Linguistic Variation”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The members of the Executive Committee are appointed by the President in consultation with the Senate. The faculties and collaborative research projects are entitled to nominate members. The Executive Committee elects the Academic Advisory Council. Membership in the Executive Committee and in the Academic Advisory Council is temporary as is the GRC fellowship itself. Each board member is elected to one three year term. While board members can be elected to multiple terms, only one of the terms can be successive. Only in exceptional cases, where the members have joined the Executive Committee at the end of a three year term, a second re-relection is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                The Gutenberg Research College (GRC), established in 2007, serves as a central strategic instrument to promote cutting-edge research at JGU. It runs an annual budget of EUR 2 million, provided in equal parts by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Its executive committee is made up of outstanding researchers from JGU and its partner research institutions. Committee members are appointed by the University President with the agreement of the University Senate based on their research achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                The GRC annually awards the Gutenberg Research Award to outstanding international researchers. The GRC is continuing the tradition of the Graduate School of Excellence \"Materials Science in Mainz\" who initiated the Gutenberg Research Award in 2006 and granted it to outstanding researchers in the field of materials science. In 2012, the responsibility for the Gutenberg Research Award has been transferred to the GRC, which is eliciting proposals from all faculties of JGU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                The GRC has thus decisively contributed to the shaping of JGU's research profile in the context of the research initiative of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. The GRC has also supported JGU's proposals for the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. Even its funding instrument of GRC fellowships is linked to strategic considerations, e.g. with the recruitment of excellent researchers to crucial professorships as GRC fellows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                One of the goals of the GRC is the reinforcement of interdisciplinary cooperation of excellent research fields at JGU. For this purpose, the GRC has established the GRC Network. Members of the GRC Network are the GRC fellows, the members of the Executive Committee and of the Academic Advisory Board as well as the academic members of the Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program. With the goal of extending the scope of perspectives, the GRC regularly invites members of the faculties and representatives of important research partners of JGU (e.g. MPI, Helmholtz Institute, Leibniz Institutes, IMB) to participate in this informal exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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                  Panagiotis Agapitos is Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture at the University of Cyprus. As a GRC fellow, he will pursue his research at the History Department at JGU and collaborate with his colleagues in the department of Byzantine Studies, at the Leibniz ScienceCampus \"Byzantium between Orient and Occident\" and at the Research Training Group \"Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  He has contributed substantially to the academic progress of Byzantine Studies worldwide by developing the field at the University of Cyprus and by teaching at established international universities (Harvard, Berlin, Paris, Stanford). He is widely known for introducing modern literary theory to interpret Medieval Greek texts. His monograph on Late Byzantine vernacular romances, as well as several of his essays on narratology and genre theory, pioneered the introduction of new methods into the study of Byzantine literature. As a GRC at JGU, he will build upon his recent research on periodization and methodology of writing a postmodern literary history,and prepare the publication of a \"A Narrative History of Byzantine Literature, AD 1050-1500\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Since April 2021, Dorothee Dormann is a Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Adjunct Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) at Mainz. She is an internationally leading researcher in the field of molecular neurodegeneration. In particular, she investigates how nuclear transport processes, phase separation, RNA processing functions and post-translational modifications of RNA-binding proteins are regulated in healthy cells and how these processes are disrupted in neurodegenerative diseases and during aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Before joining JGU, Dr. Dormann was an independent research group leader at LMU Munich, supported by an Emmy Noether fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). For her research she received numerous awards, including the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz Award in 2014 and the Paul Ehrlich und Ludwig Darmst\u00e4dter Prize for Young Researchers in 2019. Recently she has received funding by the DFG for a Heisenberg professorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  With her research, she will further enhance research in the life sciences at Mainz, especially in the Top-level Research Area \"Resilience, Adapatation and Longevity\" (ReALity), and she will cooperate with researchers from numerous institutes in Mainz and the Rhine-Main area, in particular in the areas of gene regulation, genome stability, neurobiology, stress resilience and longevity\/ageing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Jan Esper is a professor for climatology at JGU since 2010. He currently aims to solve the important problem of divergence in the tree ring record, which is an enigmatic issue that is not completely understood. He has been at the forefront of modern dendroclimatology for much of the last two decades, with a focus on the development of long tree-ring based climate reconstructions that preserve low frequency variability. His studies have been particularly important in understanding the climatic history of the Northern Hemisphere, and the effects of explosive volcanic eruptions on extreme climatic conditions and the consequences for tree growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  He has been elected as member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. In early 2020, he has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study climate-induced tree growth changes in Northern Hemisphere forests. As a GRC fellow, he will establish quantitative wood anatomy as a new research direction and expand his research collaborations with his colleagues at JGU and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Stefan Hirschauer is professor for sociological theory and gender studies at JGU. He is an expert in sociological theory, qualitative social research, sociology of the body, science studies and gender studies. He has contributed decisively to the development of these different fields by introducing new theoretical and methodological concepts. Among his best-known works are his book on the social construction of transsexuality, the anthology on the alienation of one's own culture \u2013 a standard work on ethnographic research, co-edited by him \u2013 as well as his repeatedly reprinted essays \"On Doing Being a Stranger. The Practical Constitution of Civil Inattention\" in which he explores the constitution of strangeness in elevators and \"The Manufacture of Bodies in Surgery\", a paradigmatic ethnographic science study of medicine. He has received several awards for his publications and is regularly invited to lectures and workshops at sociological and other cultural studies institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  From 2013 to 2019, Stefan Hirschauer initiated and led the interdisciplinary DFG research unit \"Un\/doing Differences. Practices in Human Differentiation\" at JGU and he has published several widely acclaimed articles and an anthology on this topic in recent years. As a GRC fellow, he will build on the research of this group in order to further develop his empirically grounded theory of human differentiation and thus make various phenomena of the cultural classification of people \u2013 according to age, gender, achievement, ethnicity, \"race\", nation, religion, etc. \u2013 comparable and translatable into each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Maria Ivanova-Bieg received her doctorate at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History at T\u00fcbingen University with a dissertation on settlement archaeology and fortification architecture in the Aegean-Anatolian region and the Balkans. Then, she worked at the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Frankfurt am Main, at the Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and at the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Since 2023, Maria Ivanova-Bieg has been professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at the Department of Ancient Studies at JGU. Her research focuses on the intersection between Archaeology, Anthropology and the Sciences. With a methodological focus coming from the Humanities but, above all, the Sciences, she studies material culture in terms of social, cultural and ecological connectivity, focussing on trans-regional, trans-continental developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  In the last years, she initiated several international research projects, dealing with key topics in Prehistoric Archaeology such as the spread of the earliest agro-pastoral societies, the development of socio-political complexity in the Copper Age of Europe and the emergence of long-range networks in the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions. She integrates methods of bioarchaeology and computational modelling in order to reconstruct the environment, living conditions and life histories of humans, animals and plants in the past. Research projects include isotope analyses of biological remains and studies of biomolecular residues in ceramics from archaeological contexts. At JGU, Maria Ivanova-Bieg intends to continue this line of research together with her colleagues at Mainz and \u2013 among other topics \u2013 to analyse concepts of sustainable living in remote history that may be a useful complement to current discussions about sustainability and climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Gerhard Lauer successfully combines philological research questions with a book studies approach. He conducted high profile research in literary history and endorsed a thorough rethinking of important concepts used in literary studies in the late 1990s, which led to a noticeable gain in clarity in terminology and methods in literary studies. Furthermore, he is considered one of the pioneers of the introduction of questions and methods of digital humanities into German studies. This paradigm shift led him to research empirically how texts and stories are structured, shared, and how they are read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  After professorships in G\u00f6ttingen and Basel, Gerhard Lauer will continue his research as professor of book studies at JGU and focus on empirical reading studies and digital humanities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Johannes Lipps took up a professorship in Classical Archaeology with a focus on Roman architecture and urban studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in fall 2019. Since his doctorate in Cologne on \"The Basilica Aemilia at the Forum Romanum. Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik\" in 2008, he has become known as an internationally renowned archaeologist for his cultural-historical studies of individual buildings in Rome, Pompeii and the Roman provinces. His work opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the ancient world due to its comprehensive material base and methodological rigor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Over the next few years, he will be researching wars, resource scarcity, migration, religious developments and other challenges that Roman cities faced against different historical backgrounds. Case studies are planned in Pompeii, Rome, Tunisia and Germany. In his research, he will cooperate closely with his co-workers in the core research area \"40,000 Years of Human Challenges: Perception, Conceptualization and Coping in Premodern Societies\". <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  M\u00e1ria Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 is a well\u2010known expert in numerics and analysis of partial differential, in mathematical modelling and scientific computing. Problems that she studies arise from fluid mechanics, statistical physics, geophysics, meteorology, engineering and medicine. She deals with hyperbolic conservation laws, which are fundamental for most of physical, biological and mechanical processes. Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 made important contributions to the development of genuinely multidimensional, asymptotic preserving and well\u2010balanced finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin methods for hyperbolic conservation laws. Her further interests concern development of structure preserving schemes for complex multiscale problems and study of fluid\u2010structure interaction problems for non\u2010Newtonian fluids, in particular those arising in hemodynamics and soft matter systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  M\u00e1ria Luk\u00e1cov\u00e1-Medvidov\u00e1 is a member of the steering committee of the Mainz Institute of Multiscale Modeling (M3<\/sup>ODEL), vice speaker of the collaborative research center \"Multiscale Simulation Methods for Soft Matter Systems\", and researcher at the collaborative research center \"Waves to Weather\". All of these research centers profit considerably from her expertise in mathematical modelling and numerical simulations of complex fluid flows that arise in the multiscale systems investigated. Her main aim is to apply well-established mathematical and computational techniques and to generalize and extend them to particular models arising in atmospheric science, geophysics and statistical physics in order to answer challenging scientific questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  The biochemist Christoph Reinhardt received his PhD in human biology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. His research focused on the pathomechanisms of immunothrombosis, a central function of the innate immune system in microcirculation, which prevents the systemic spread of invasive microorganisms in the event of infection by activating plasmatic coagulation. During his post-doctoral work as EU Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research at the University of Gothenburg, he investigated the role of the intestinal microbiome and the signaling mechanisms induced by coagulation factors that promote vascularization of the small intestine. In order to decipher vascular microbiota-host interactions, Christoph Reinhardt established germ-free mouse isolator technology (gnotobiotics) as part of his junior professorship at the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) at the University Medical Center Mainz. He uses this technology to investigate the molecular and cellular mechanisms that act on the vascular system through the microbial colonization of body surfaces and thus influence the development of cardiovascular diseases. His research group was able to show for the first time that the microbiome promotes arterial thrombus formation. As a GRC fellow, he will continue to develop this research area, an innovative conceptual link between immunology and vascular biology, at JGU.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Following her doctorate in M\u00fcnster, Marion Silies conducted her postdoctoral research at Stanford University and headed the Emmy Noether- and ERC-funded junior research group \"Visual Processing\" at the European Neuroscience Institute in G\u00f6ttingen before coming to Mainz in 2019 as Professor of Neurobiology. In Mainz, she will combine her experience in the fields of neuronal development and functional neurobiology and continue her research on the cellular mechanisms and neuronal networks of information processing in the brain, in particular the processing of visual information in Drosophila. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Sebastian Sternal, professor for jazz piano and jazz ensemble at the Mainz School of Music, studied in Cologne and Paris and has worked with jazz greats like Dee Dee Bridgewater, David Binney and John Riley. His concert tours took him all over the world. He won numerous prizes, such as the WDR Jazzpreis 2007, the Concours piano jazz Martial Solal 2010, Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2014, Annual Award of the German Schallplattenkritik 2015, and the ECHO Jazz in 2013, 2016, and 2018. His project Sternal Symphonic Society combines young musicians from jazz and classical music. In 2017, his trio album \"Home\" with Larry Grenadier and Jonas Burgwinkel was released and celebrated by the audience and professionals alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  As part of his GRC fellowship, Sternal plans the development of the Jazz Campus Mainz, which will include the implementation of a European ensemble as well as the establishment of a Jazz Summer School and a university big band.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Carsten Streb has been professor of inorganic chemistry at JGU since 2022. He investigates molecular metal oxides, so called polyoxometalates as building blocks for functional materials. These are small, self-contained units that in turn are crafted from subunits at the molecular level. He has developed novel concepts to build up polyoxometalates from these units. The control of the assembly of these units into larger aggregates has been a major step towards nano-structured materials with tailored properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  His research spans a bridge between molecular chemistry and solid-state\/materials chemistry, and he has managed to bring together previously disjunct fields of research such as metal oxide chemistry and ionic liquid chemistry, soft matter design and redox-switchability, as well as molecular electronics and spintronics, redox- and photo-switchable materials, organic-inorganic hybrids and multifunctional solar energy conversion systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  At an early age, Carsten Streb has already become one of the most highly cited and most acknowledged researchers in the molecular metal oxide community and in inorganic chemistry in Europe. Recently, he has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant with the aim to explore the polymerization of metal oxides and gain control over the structure and reactivity of such materials. At JGU, he will contribute to the field of sustainable chemistry, where his innovative materials concepts for resource-efficient catalysis and upcycling of bio-feedstocks will become cornerstones of this new research field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Since October 2020, Andreas Walther has been professor for Macromolecular Materials and Systems at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Before coming to JGU, he was professor for Functional Polymers at the University of Freiburg and Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence livMatS \"Living, Adaptive and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems\". He has published numerous widely-read articles in leading journals. In recent years, he has been supported with an ERC Starting Grant and as a fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), and he has been honored with several awards for excellent young researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  The Walther Lab develops hierarchical self-assembly concepts inside and outside equilibrium, and connects those to (bio)macromolecular materials research. The long-term efforts are directed towards energy-driven and feedback-controlled non-equilibrium systems to realize next-generation, adaptive, active and autonomously dynamic soft materials with life-like properties. He is considered one of the leading scientists in bioinspired and life-inspired macromolecular materials and systems and will collaborate with his colleagues in Mainz to expand the research areas of macromolecular systems engineering and sustainable materials at JGU and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  The GRC annually awards the Gutenberg Research Award to outstanding international researchers. It is continuing the tradition of the Graduate School of Excellence \"Materials Science in Mainz\" who initiated the Gutenberg Research Award in 2006 and granted it to outstanding researchers in the field of materials science. In 2012, the responsibility for the Gutenberg Research Award has been transferred to the GRC, who will be eliciting proposals from all faculties of JGU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  On May 12, 2025, we will grant the Gutenberg Research Award 2025 to Anna Balazs, materials scientist from the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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                  Professor Johannes Kabatek from the University of Zurich (UZH) is Professor of Romance Philology, with a special focus on Ibero-Romance linguistics. In 2020, he became the Director of UZH's Competence Center Language & Medicine. Johannes Kabatek is one of the most renowned Romance linguists in the German-speaking world and beyond. His remarkable academic achievements include ten monographs and 24 edited books as well as more than 140 academic papers and about 200 lectures given. Over the years, Kabatek has also made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of early-career researchers. About one in every three of the 25 scholars who completed their doctoral and professorial dissertations under his supervision now hold professorships in countries such as Germany, Austria, Spain, Brazil, and Switzerland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Johannes Kabatek was born in Stuttgart in 1965. He studied, amongst other subjects, Romance Philology and Political Science at the University of T\u00fcbingen. He obtained his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on language contact in Northwest Spain, which has since become a standard reference at international level. Professor Kabatek's habilitation thesis similarly goes beyond the limits of linguistics. It is a key piece of scholarly work for Europe's legal, intellectual, and cultural history, in which Kabatek manages to bridge the divide between different academic disciplines in a unique and impressive way. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Paola Arlotta is Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. She is rewarded for her pioneering discoveries regarding brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders as well as her innovative approaches towards brain repair. She studied biochemistry at the University of Trieste and was awarded a Ph.D. in molecular biology by the University of Portsmouth before she relocated to Harvard University. There she focused her research on the development of the cerebral cortex and succeeded in refuting the long-held view that neuronal identity remains irrevocably fixed in the brain and has thus helped opening up a completely new field of research. In the recent past, Arlotta was able to generate organoids of the cerebral cortex from human stem cells. This has formed the basis for modelling the development of the human cerebral cortex and has resulted in the discovery of core mechanisms underlying developmental disorders of the nervous system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Rainer Blatt is a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck. Here he heads one of the world's leading research groups in the field of trapped ion quantum computing that creates simulation algorithms for use in research on solid-state physics, molecular physics, and high energy physics. Blatt is among the world's most prominent researchers in his field and he enjoys an outstanding reputation. He has made a major contribution to quantum optics by means of his pioneering experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Blatt was born in Idar-Oberstein in 1952 and studied and obtained his doctorate at JGU. He subsequently entered the world of research, collaborating in the USA with the eventual Nobel Prize winner John Lewis Hall. He holds numerous scientific prizes, including the Stern-Gerlach Medal, which is the most distinguished award given by the German Physical Society (DPG), the John Stewart Bell Prize of the University of Toronto, and the Micius Quantum Prize of China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Wil Roebroeks is Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University. His research focus is on Neanderthals and other (earlier) Eurasian hominins. Among other things, he investigates how these primeval humans used fire, managed to subsist, produced stone tools, and even changed the environment around them. For this he employs data that he has collected during extensive excavations in countries such as the Netherlands, France, Russia, Germany, and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Wil Roebroeks is one of the world's leading researchers in his field. Through his work, he has been able to provide fundamental insights into the earliest human settlement of Europe and Asia. Moreover, he is actively involved in promoting the research community in any number of ways. From 2011 to 2021, Roebroeks was Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) and a member of the advisory boards of various specialist journals and research institutions, including the R\u00f6misch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM) in Mainz and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). He holds a number of honors, including the Spinoza Prize \u2013 the most distinguished academic award of the Netherlands \u2013 and the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation that is given to outstanding international researchers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Corine Defrance has been undertaking research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) since 1995. She has also been lecturing at the Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, Sirice, since 2003. The history of Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries, Franco-German relations during this period, and European unification after the Second World War are at the focus of her research. She has made exceptional contributions in particular with regard to the reappraisal of the history of Franco-German relations and has produced a large number of publications on the subject. Some of these publications are now seen as standard works on the development of the relation between the two countries after the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Corine Defrance's connections to Mainz reach back to the time she was writing her dissertation, in which she analyzed the fundamentals of French cultural policy in occupied Germany from 1945 to 1955 and in this context the reestablishment of Mainz University. She also dedicated later research to the history of Mainz University, using sources in the local university archive for this purpose and collaborating with researchers at JGU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Adela Yarbro Collins is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation Emerita at Yale University. John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation and works also at Yale. Both have made and are still making enormously important contributions to scholarship on the history and literature of the Second Temple Period (from approximately 520 before the common era to the year 70 of the common era), Early Judaism, and Early Christianity. Their oeuvre includes a vast number of monographs, articles in leading scholarly journals, editorial activities, and involvement in international conferences and meetings. In addition to their expertise in biblical literature, they are excellent and leading scholars in the areas of the history of religion, Jewish Studies, and Christian origins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  An important topic that both are continuously working on involves the ideas and literature of \"apocalypticism.\" The motifs and thoughts of this large movement in Early Judaism and Early Christianity are still vibrant today. While John Collins tends to focus upon the earlier period, including the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and Early Jewish literature, Adela Yarbro Collins pursues this phenomenon in the era of Early Christianity, that is the period of the New Testament and related apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  In the early seventies, John Collins formulated a definition of \"apocalypse\" and \"apocalypticism\" that became a standard in the entire field of biblical studies. His seminal work, \"The Apocalyptic Imagination,\" reached now its third edition. The scholarly community regards this book and John\u2019s commentary in the Hermeneia series on the \"apocalypse\" of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Daniel, meanwhile as classics. John Collins is also well known for his important studies and publications on the non-biblical literature found at Qumran. He is, however, not only one of the premiere specialists on apocalyptic and Qumran literature but also an excellent teacher. His general \"Introduction to the Hebrew Bible\" is now available in a second edition. As an acknowledgement for his outstanding performance, his scholarship and teaching, John Collins received an honorary degree from University College Dublin in 2009 and from the University of Zurich in 2015. Recently, he has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Adela Yarbro Collins received a \"Doctor theologiae honoris causae\" from the University of Oslo in 1994 and an \"Ehrendoktor\" from the University of Zurich in 2015. Her first book, \"The Combat Myth in the Book of Revelation,\" was very influential within New Testament scholarship and the study of the history of Early Christianity, as it revived the history of religions approach to this apocalyptic work. Subsequently, Adela Yarbro Collins fostered innovative research on the book of Revelation in \"Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse\" by introducing social psychology to the study of this text and bringing this approach to bear on the interpretation of a somewhat strange but nevertheless fascinating writing of Early Christianity. Her commentary on the Gospel of Mark is another very important work, published in the leading series of American biblical commentaries, Hermeneia. In addition to the commentary, she contributed many publications to the research on the Gospel of Mark in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Karin Knorr Cetina is Otto Borchert Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her academic biography shows us a true cosmopolitan and interdisciplinary researcher. After her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of Vienna and a post-doctoral diploma in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, she worked at several American universities, before coming to the University of Bielefeld where she acted as professor of sociology for almost twenty years. In 2001, she moved to the University of Konstanz and since 2010, she has been acting as distinguished professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Knorr Cetina is known, among other things, for her innovative studies of the working methods and practical rationality employed by natural scientists and foreign exchange traders. In 1981, Karin Knorr Cetina has published the pioneering monograph \"The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science.\" She used ethnographic and anthropological methods to analyze the scientific practices within a laboratory in order to understand how natural scientists produce facts and knowledge in their everyday work. This groundbreaking study marked the breakthrough of a whole new field of research called \u201csocial studies of science.\u201d She inspired generations of students and their empirical studies of the social construction of scientific knowledge. In 1999, she published \"Epistemic Cultures. How the Sciences Make Knowledge.\" By thoroughly investigating and comparing scientific practices in high-energy physics and in molecular biology, she highlighted the importance of knowledge cultures in the generation of scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  In the 1990s, Karin Knorr Cetina started her research on another highly influential form of knowledge and analyzed how financial markets create economic knowledge. She and her team accompanied market participants at work, mainly traders on foreign exchange markets, and analyzed the interaction between trading transactions, the economic knowledge of the dealers and the visual presentations of the virtual market on the screen. Knorr Cetina published the results of her studies in several widely received articles. Soon her new book \"Maverick Markets: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets\" will sum up many results of her research on financial markets in the last decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Karin Knorr Cetina has produced many new insights on science and financial markets as two of the most influential fields of modern societies. Recently, she has published several articles and is preparing a book where she intends to draw a theoretical synthesis from her seminal empirical studies. She analyzes modern society as a \"synthetic society\" that may be characterized by the coupling of human action with technical artefacts and virtual systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Vishva Dixit grew up in Kenya and received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Nairobi before continuing his research at the Washington University School of Medicine and later the University of Michigan Medical School where he became Professor at the Department of Pathology. In 1997, he left university to continue his research as Director of the Department of Molecular Oncology at the biotechnology company Genentech. Today he holds the position as Vice President for Early Discovery Research at Genentech and Director of their Postdoctoral Program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Dixit is famous for several path-breaking contributions to biomedical research, many of which are decorating the textbooks already. He is best-known for his research that laid the foundation on programmed cell death and inflammation. Apoptosis as one form of programmed cell death was still a mysterious process in the early 1990s, and the mechanisms driving this fundamentally important cellular process were completely unclear. Dr. Dixit and his lab identified the components of this cell death pathway and defined the mechanisms driving this fundamental cellular process. Furthermore, Dixit made seminal contributions to the study of inflammation and immunity by defining the components of inflammasome. He was able to explain how the bacterial signals are recognized by the host immune system. More recently, Dixit's lab deciphered how \"ubiquitination\", one of the most versatile modes of protein modification contributes to tumorigenesis, inflammation, autoimmunity and diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Vishva Dixit has been a pioneer and a distinguished and much acclaimed scholar in the biomedical field for several decades and his works have dramatically altered our understanding of the molecular events required for programmed cell death and inflammation. In addition to his contributions to progress in fundamental research in immunology, biochemistry molecular biology and other fields, his works have already paved a way for developing novel therapeutics in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  On May 4, 2015, the theologian Kwok Pui Lan (Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge\/Massachusetts) and the polymer chemist Kazunori Kataoka (University of Tokyo) received the Gutenberg Research Award 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                  Professor Kazunori Kataoka is one of the world's leading polymer chemists, having developed specific polymers for biomedical applications. His nano-transporters are remarkable as they are based on long-chain molecules, i.e., polymers, which are used for the targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to tumors and for the transport of genetic material in gene therapy. He is a pioneer of a new concept in which the drug is enclosed in micelles. These are aggregates of specially developed polymers. It is possible to specifically guide these nano-transporters to affected tissues or organs. For this purpose, they need to circulate in the blood for a relatively long time so that they eventually accumulate in tumor tissue. Several differently designed polymer micelles that Kataoka has developed for cancer therapy are currently in clinical trials in various countries, including the UK and France. Some of these polymer agents are close to actual application. This would confirm the ultimate breakthrough of this concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Professor Kazunori Kataoka has pursued his scientific career mainly in Tokyo, and he has received worldwide recognition and held several guest professorships at European universities. He is Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo and member of numerous scientific societies in Japan and the USA. He has received the highly prestigious Humboldt Research Award for research in collaboration with members of the Mainz-based Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1066 on \"Nanodimensional polymer therapeutics for tumor therapy\" and also the NIMS Award of the Japanese National Institute of Materials Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  There are several areas in which Kataoka's work coincides with the research being conducted in Mainz with its long tradition of experimentation with self-organizing nano-structures based on polymers. Polymer-based medications and nano-transporters based on polymers are regarded as a core area of current polymer research. Corresponding strategies are not only being developed at JGU, but also at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as part of the CRC 1066, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Crucial to the success of this research is the close cooperation with medical groups at the Mainz University Medical Center within the CRC. The first joint projects with the Kataoka work group have already started and include both exchange of PhD students and joint publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Professor Kwok Pui Lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work represents a paradigm shift in the historiography of Christian mission. Instead of looking at the spread of Christianity as a movement promoted by the \"white man\" she includes the history of local Christianities in her research. Kwok has also set new standards in interreligious hermeneutics by demonstrating that in Asia the Bible can only be read in the context of the holy scriptures of other religions. Based on her interdisciplinary approach that integrates feminist and post-colonial theories, Kwok is also highly regarded outside theological circles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Kwok Pui Lan, born in 1952 in the then British colony of Hong Kong, received her education first at the Chinese University in Hong Kong and at the South East Asia Graduate School of Theology. She was awarded a ThD by Harvard University and holds honorary doctorates from universities in the Netherlands and Sweden. The wide recognition she enjoys was shown in her election as President of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in 2011, the largest and most influential professional organization for religious studies and theology. Professor Kwok Pui Lan has won several awards for her academic work and for her teaching activities, including the prestigious American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  By bestowing on her the Gutenberg Research Award, the GRC is honoring an outstanding representative of post-colonial feminist theology, sending a clear signal to German academic theology to be more open to intercultural issues. The university is thus also linking an internationally recognized Christian intellectual to Mainz, one who prominently speaks out in public debate. This results in far-reaching options for cooperation in the field of intercultural theology as it is represented by the Department of Comparative Religion and Missiology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at JGU. Cooperation is already bearing fruit in the form of the promotion of young research talents and the development of intercultural teaching strategies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Ernst Fehr has been Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economics at the University of Z\u00fcrich since 1994. He is presently chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Z\u00fcrich, where he also serves as director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society. He has been a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University since 2011 and was an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2003 to 2011. Despite many offers from internationally leading universities, such as Berkeley, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, and New York University, he stayed in Z\u00fcrich and transformed this place into one of the leading places for interdisciplinary approaches to economics in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Fehr is clearly one of the best-known and most highly cited economists of the world. He is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary approach to economics who was among the first to cross disciplinary boundaries. His research extends far into the realms of psychology, sociology, biology, medicine and neuroscience. He has numerous top publications in economics. But his interdisciplinary breadth and excellence are particularly evident in the fact that he has published a total of 18 articles in Nature and Science. He also regularly publishes in top psychological and neuroscientific journals, such as Psychological Science<\/em> or Neuron<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Fehr has conducted extensive research on the impact of social preferences on competition, cooperation and on the psychological foundations of incentives. He has shown that fundamental economic and social questions, such as the functioning of markets and organizations or the design of contracts, institutions, and incentives cannot be answered without a deeper understanding of the behavior of individuals and economic actors. Fehr\u2019s research focus is in the areas of social science and economics, but he successfully goes a step further and examines the biological, hormonal, genetic, and neuronal foundations of human behavior. In particular, he was able to demonstrate the importance of no longer viewing people as \"Homo Oeconomicus\", i.e. as rational and egoistic people whose only motivation lies in maximizing profits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Mich\u00e8le Lamont is a professor of sociology, European studies and African and American studies at Harvard University. There, she currently also serves as Acting Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In addition to her position at Harvard, she is a fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a regular guest at renowned international research institutions, such as the EHESS in Paris, Tel Aviv University, Sciences Po Paris and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Mich\u00e8le Lamont has published more than eighty papers, most of them in internationally acclaimed journals. Several of them were translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and German. Furthermore, she has edited twelve anthologies and has authored three influential, award-winning books that have also been translated into different languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Lamont is a bridging personality, being widely acknowledged in sociology, political sciences, cultural anthropology, and science studies. In this respect, her culturally comparative inequality studies are mainly related to a concept in whose theoretical development she was significantly involved: Symbolic boundaries and boundary-making stand for practices of distinction and processes of negotiating cultural hierarchies. She developed this concept in a highly original fusion of European and American social sciences and furthermore as an 'ethnologist' through the socio-scientific construction of socio-scientific elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Even beyond the boundaries of academic research, Mich\u00e8le Lamont\u2019s expertise is well-respected and sought after. Among others, she was a member of the French government\u2019s Haut Conseil de la science et de la technologie as well as in the scientific advisory council of Sciences Po. She also works as a consultant for the World Bank and UNESCO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Last but not least, Mich\u00e8le Lamont is actively engaged in the education and advancement of young academics. She refined the institutional support services at Harvard University where she set up a mentoring program for tenure holders. Her extraordinary commitment has so far been acknowledged on two occasions: She was awarded a \"Master Mentor\" by Harvard University and received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  The GRC honors the achievements of Maciej Lewenstein \u2013 one of the leading researchers in the field of quantum physics and beyond, as his work has been highly influential in different branches of physics and other sciences. After graduating from Warsaw University in 1978 he joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. In 1983, he finished his PhD in Essen and his habilitation in Warsaw in 1986. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the Commissariat \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9nergie atomique in Saclay, and in 1998 he became full professor at the University of Hannover. In 2005 he moved to Spain as ICREA \u2013 the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies \u2013 Research Professor to lead the quantum optics theory group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  In the scientific community, he is best-known for his contributions to high-order harmonics generation when matter is exposed to extreme laser field strengths. His articles on Bose-Einstein condensates, or degenerate ultra-cold fermionic atoms are read and cited widely. His proposals in quantum computing are nowadays realized experimentally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  Although his research already encompasses a wide range of issues in quantum physics and the neighboring sciences, he still paves direction to new research fields where he contributes with his expertise and creativity. For instance, he has developed novel ideas for quantum simulation and its application both in the description of entanglement and many-body systems, relevant for condensed matter physics, and also for hard problems in high energy physics. His book on quantum phase transitions became quickly a reference in this field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  Leonard Talmy, Professor emeritus of Linguistics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, is best known as one of the founding fathers of Cognitive Linguistics. Talmy's understanding of Cognitive Linguistics is rooted in the conviction that language as a cognitive system shares some of its fundamental design features with other cognitive systems (e.g., the human visual system), but also exhibits characteristics and organizational principles genuine to language alone. Thus, language structures can neither be directly derived from general cognition nor is language to be seen as a completely autonomous model of human cognitive architecture. Talmy's integrative and encompassive \"Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive Organization,\" an independent stance within Cognitive Linguistics may well explain why Leonard Talmy's work has been received and widely appreciated not only by linguists outside the paradigm, but also by developmental psychologists, applied linguists and foreign language teaching experts, and even philosophers. Among his best known and outstanding accomplishments at the interface of language and cognition are seminal studies on motion typology, cross-linguistic representations of space concepts, lexicalization patterns in the languages of the world, an evolutionary model of compositionality in language that is very much compatible with current neuroscientific binding models of neural synchrony. Beyond the core area of cognitive semantics, Leonard Talmy has published influential articles on the culture system and on narrative structure that testify to his rigorously interdisciplinary stance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  His commitment to JGU, especially to its Department of English and Linguistics, has become visible for quite a few years now. From 2008 on, he has, apart from maintaining profound and long-lasting personal relations to individual members of the Department, been an external reviewer in a Habilitation, a guest lecturer in 2009, a consultant to one of the individual component projects in the large-scale research project on \"Determinants of Linguistic Variation\". <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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                  The GRC is organized as a college of outstanding academic fellows. The Executive Committee consists of members of the university and of external research institutes that closely cooperate with JGU. The Executive Committee takes all decisions concerning the GRC. It recommends potential fellows to the President and decides upon the amount of their financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  The Academic Advisory Council follows the work of the GRC and advises its Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  The members of the Executive Committee are appointed by the President in consultation with the Senate. The faculties and collaborative research projects are entitled to nominate members. The Executive Committee elects the Academic Advisory Council. Membership in the Executive Committee and in the Academic Advisory Council is temporary as is the GRC fellowship itself. Each board member is elected to one three year term. While board members can be elected to multiple terms, only one of the terms can be successive. Only in exceptional cases, where the members have joined the Executive Committee at the end of a three year term, a second re-relection is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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