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Current Fellows

Academic Year 2009/10

E-mail accounts of Fellows are composed as follows:
[first character of the first name]+[last name]@colbud.hu

[see phone and e-mail list of Fellows in residence here - regularly updated]

Ana Aceska
Fellow: Oct. 2009-Feb. 2010
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Field: Sociology/Social Anthropology
Institute: Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Research topic:
Focus group:
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Research project: Metamorphoses of the square (plaza) in a divided city: the case of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Fellow Report: 2009/10
Iván Almár
Fellow: Oct.-Nov. 2009
Position: Doctor of Physical Sciences
Field: Astronomy, Space Research
Institute: Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Research topic: The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society
Focus group: European Space Agency Project "Astrobiology potential of Mars"
Research project: Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life: Assessment by Scales of Importance and Associated Risk
Fellow Report: 2009/10
Eszter Ari
Junior Fellow: Sep.-Oct. 2009
Position: Assistant Lecturer
Field: Theoretical Biology
Institute: Department of Genetics; ELTE, Budapest
Research topic:
Focus group:
Research project: Phylogenetic Analysis With a New Descrete Mathematical Method
Jerzy Axer
Visiting Scholar 1-16 Apr 2005 and Fellow: Apr. and Jun. 2010
Position: Prof. ord.
Field: Classical Philology
Institute: Institute of Classics, University of Warsaw/Warsaw Theatre Academy
Research topic: Philhellenism in 19-Centary Poland
Focus group: "Multiple Antiquities-Multiple Modernities" in 2005; "GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM" in 2010
Irene Barbiera
Fellow: Apr.-Jul. 2009; Nov. 2009
Position: Researcher
Field: Archaeology
Institute: Department of History, University of Padova, Italy
Research topic: Funerary archaeology of the early Middle Ages in Italy and Central Europe
Focus group: Archaeology and imagination: archaeological objects in literature, art and the study of modernity
Research project: Warrior identity and funerary remains between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Fellow Report: 2009/10
Xavier Barral i Altet
Fellow: Dec. 2009 - Jul. 2010
Position: Professor Emeritus
Field: History of Medieval Art
Institute: University of Rennes II-Haute Bretagne, France
Research topic:
Focus group:
Research project: The Bayeux embroidery: antique sources, function and recipient
Dóra Bobory
Junior Fellow: Oct. 2009 - Feb. 2010
Position: Researcher
Field: History of Science
Institute: Institute of Habsburg History, Budapest
Research topic: Eearly Modern Period
Focus group:
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Research project: The concrete role of astrology/astronomy in early modern alchemical experimentation
Fellow Report: 2009/10
László Borhy
Fellow: Apr. - Jun. 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Classical and Roman provincial archaeology
Institute: Department of Classical and Roman Provincial Archaeology, University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest
Research topic: Roman archaeology, Roman Art, Latin epigraphy
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
Gergely Boza
Fellow: Sep.-Oct- 2009
Position: Ph. D. Candidate
Field: Theoretical Biology
Institute: ELTE, Budapest, and Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Budapest; Research Assistant at IIASA (International Institute of Applied System Analysis, Laxemburg, Austria), Evolution and Ecology Group
Research topic: Evolutionary Game Theory
Focus group:
Research project: The evolutionary origin and stability of interspecies and intraspecies group-cooperation.
Paulina Bren
Fellow: Sep. 2009-Jun. 2010
Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Field: History
Institute: Vassar College; Department of History, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Research topic: Modern European History, East-Central Europe
Focus group:
Research project: The Communist 'Good Life': Cultures of Consumption in Postwar Eastern Europe; 2/ Down at the Farm: The Slusovice Agricultural Cooperative as Wonderland
Michal Buchowski
Fellow: Jan.-May 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Social Anthropology
Institute: Deaprtment of Ethnolgy and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
Research topic:
Focus group:
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Research project: Anthropology of European Postsocialism: Modes of Invention and Representation
Olga Budaragina
Fellow: May 2010
Position: Associate Professor, Academic Secretary
Field: Classics
Institute: Department of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg State University, Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, St. Petersburg, Russia
Research topic: Translation of Classics
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
Research project: Politics and Poetics: Translating Classics in Soviet Russia
István Csabai
Resident Scholar Between 2002 and 2009
Position: Associate Professor of Physics
Field: Physics
Institute: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Research topic: complex systems
Focus group: ETOMIC (http://www.etomic.org/) within the framework of the Cooperative Centre for Communication Network Data Analysis
Research project: ETOMIC
Fellow Report: 2008/09
Tamás Czárán
Fellow: November 2009
Position: Researcher
Field: Ecology and Theoretical Biology
Institute: Ecology and Theoretical Biology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eötvös University, Budapest
Research topic: Theoretical ecology, evolutionary biology, modelling spatiotemporal dynamics
Focus group:
Dirk Fabricius
Fellow: Oct. 2009 - May 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Criminal Law, Criminology and Psychology of Law,
Institute: Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Research topic:
Focus group:
Research project: Criminal science after Darwin
Anna Fedor
Junior Fellow: Oct.-Sep. 2009
Position: Ph.D. Student
Field: Theoretical Biology
Institute: Plant Taxonomy and Ecology Department, ELTE, Budapest
Research topic:
Focus group:
Research project: The neural prerequisites for parsing grammatical strings
Chrisantha Fernando
Marie-Curie Fellow: Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2010
Position: Post-doc. Researcher
Field: Theoretical Biology
Institute: MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London; CCNR University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Research topic: Self-Referential Evolution
Focus group:
Research project: Self-Referential Neuronal Replicators
Fellow Report: 2008/09
Zsolt Frei
Fellow: 2006/07/08/09
Position: Associate Professor of Astrophysics
Field: Astrophysics
Institute: Institute of Physics, Eötvös University, Hungary
Research topic: 2005: The visualization challenge of NAP 2005; 2008: Coordination of the Polányi Fellowship Programme
Focus group: Polanyi Programme
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Cristian Gaspar
Fellow: May-Jul. 2010
Position: Instructor
Field: Ancient Languages
Institute: Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, Budapest
Research topic:
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
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Research project: Classics and Communism - Ideological Conversion, Censorship, and Prudery: Romania (A Case Study)
Árpád László Gergely
Fellow: May - Nov. 2009
Position: Associate Professor of Astrophysics
Field: general relativity, relativistic astrophysics, cosmology
Institute: Szeged University, Hungary
Research topic: gravitational radiation, black holes, compact binaries, cosmology, brane-worlds
Focus group: NAP II Project
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Research project: Galactic and Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers
Fellow Report: 2009/10
Nikolai Gochev
Fellow: May-Jul. 2010
Position: Director
Field: Classical Philology
Institute: Masters Program for Ancient Culture and Literature, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Research topic:
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
László Gulyás
Fellow: 2006/07/08/09/10
Position: Assistant Professor
Field: Simulation of Complex (Social) Systems, Agent-Based Modeling
Institute: History and Philosophy of Science, ELTE, Budapest
Research topic: Complex Systems
Focus group: Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks (DYNANETS)
Research project: Understanding Emergent Social Phenomena, Evolution of Food Webs, Quasi-Opportunistic Supercomputing for Complex Systems on the Grid
Fellow Report: 2006/07
Péter Hajdu
Fellow: Apr. - Jul. 2010
Position: Senior Research Fellow
Field: Literature
Institute: Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Research topic:
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
Jens Halfwassen
Fellow: Oct. 2009 - May 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Philosophy
Institute: Ruprecht-Karls University, Germany
Research topic:
Focus group:
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Research project: The Philosophical Religion of Antiquity
Lea Haller
Landis and Gyr Junior Fellow: Mar.-May 2010
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Field: History of Science
Institute: Institute for the History of Technology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Research topic:
Focus group:
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Research project: The go-between. Adrenal cortex hormones in science, industry, and medical practice, 1920-1960
András Horváth
Fellow: 2009
Position: Director
Field: Astronomy
Institute: Budapest Planetarium of Society for Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, Budapest
Research topic:
Focus group: Mars Astrobiology Group (MAG) II
Milena Jovanovic
Fellow: Apr. - Jun. 2010
Position: Lecturer
Field: Classics
Institute: Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Research topic: TEXTE LITTÉRAIRE ET ANALYSE CONTRASTIVE
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
Research project: CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM - TEXTE LITTÉRAIRE ET ANALYSE CONTRASTIVE
Nijole Juchneviciene
Fellow: June 2010
Position: Associate Professor, Department Head; President
Field: Classical Philology
Institute: Vilnius University, Philological Faculty, Department of Classical Philology; Lithuanian Association of Classicists
Research topic: Classics and Communism
Focus group: GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM
Research project: Classics and Communism: the Lithuanian Case
György Kampis
Fellow: 2010
Position: Professor
Field: History of Science
Institute: Dept. of Philosophy of Science, Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary.
Research topic:
Focus group: Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks (DYNANETS)
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Research project: DYNANETS
György Karsai
Associate Fellow April-July 2005; Fellow: Jan.-Jul. 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Classical Philology, Theater Theory
Institute: University of Film and Theatre, Budapest; Head of Department of Classical Philology, University, of Pécs, Hungary
Research topic: "The heritage of the classical (Greek and Roman) theatre in Hungary in the 19th century" in 2005
Focus group: "Multiple Antiquities-Multiple Modernities" in 2005; "GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM" in 2010
Ákos Keresztúri
Junior Resident Scholar: 2004 - 2010
Position:
Field: Geology
Institute:
Research topic: Comparison of images, temperature, pressure, and composition data with modelled Martian parameters and tolerance limits of Earthly extremophiles
Focus group: Mars Astrobiology Group (MAG) II
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Research project: 2004-2007: European Space Agency Project "Life on Mars"
Fellow Report: 2007/08
Susan Khor
Fellow: Mar.-Dec. 2010
Position: Researcher
Field: Computer Science
Institute:
Research topic: Application of Network Science
Focus group: Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks (DYNANETS)
Research project: Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks (DYNANETS)
Gábor Klaniczay
Permanent Fellow as of 2002; Rector: 1997-2002, May-November 2008.
Position: Professor of Medieval Studies
Field: Medieval Studies
Institute: Central European University, Budapest/ Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary
Research topic: Sainthood and witchcraft. A structural comparison.
Focus group: Medievalism, archaic origins and regimes of historicity alternatives to Antique tradition in the nineteenth century in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe in 2009, "GNÔTHI SEAUTON! - CLASSICS AND COMMUNISM" in 2010
Fellow Report: 2008/09
Éva Kocziszky
Fellow: Apr. - Jul. - Nov.-Dec. 2009
Position: Professor of Literary Studies
Field: Literature
Institute: West Hungary University, Szombathely, Hungary
Research topic: Archaeological relicts in the German lyricism of the 20th Century
Focus group: Archaeology and Imagination:Archaeological Objects in Literature, Art and the Study of Modernity
Fellow Report: 2009/10
Imre Kondor
Permanent Fellow as of 2002, Rector 2002-2008
Position: Professor of Physics; Professor of Finance
Field: Physics
Institute: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary; Corvinus University, Budapest
Research topic: Application of the methods of statistical physics to problems in quantitative finance, theoretical aspects of risk management and of financial regulation.
Focus group:
Fellow Report: 2008/09
János Kornai
Permanent Fellow Emeritus 2002- (Permanent Fellow 1992-2002)
Position: Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University
Field: Economics
Institute:
Research topic:
Focus group:
Fellow Report: 2008/09
Ádám Kun
Junior Fellow: 2004/05/06/09
Position: Research Associate Professor
Field: Computer Science
Institute: Loránd Eötvös University, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Budapest
Research topic: A Modelling the RNA World - Introduction of Real RNA Structures to Models of Prebiotic Evolution
Focus group:
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Research project: Modelling the RNA World - Introduction of Real RNA Structures to Models of Prebiotic Evolution
Fellow Report: 2005/06
Konstantin V. Lifanov
Fellow: Oct. 2009 - May 2010
Position: Professor
Field: Slavic Studies
Institute: Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia
Research topic:
Focus group:
Research project: Importance of Buda and Pest for the History of the Slovak Literary Language
Zoltán Márkus
Fellow: Sep. 2009 - Jun. 2010
Position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
Field: English and Comparative Literature
Institute: Vassar College; Department of English, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Research topic: Shakespeare studies
Focus group:
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Research project: 1/ Hungarian-language publication of his English-language monograph on cultural appropriations of Shakespeare during World War II; 2/ Editing a volume of essays on "Disliking Shakespeare"
Csaba Mészáros
Junior Fellow: Mar.-Jul. 2009.
Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Field: Anthropology, Discourse Analysis
Institute: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
Research topic: European Ethnology
Focus group:
Research project: The Impact of Centre-Periphery Relations on the Cohesion of Rural Communities within the Russian Federation

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