Our Santander Grantees

Santander Grantee
Simon Blömer
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE)
Venusberg-Campus
53127 Bonn

Project title
Rapid Flow Imaging at 7T with Segmented 3D-EPI: Challenges, Opportunities, and Novel Solutions

Host institution
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) Group, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Santander Grantee
Rahel Skobowsky
Faculty of Law and Economics
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn

Project title
The concept of community in the Constitution

Host institution
Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Santander Grantee
Lutz Klein
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Meckenheimer Allee 172
53115 Bonn

Project title
Insights into Wildfire Effects on Streamflow Generation and Water Quality

Host institution
Watershed Processes lab at Forest Engineering, Resources & Management department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

Santander Grantee
Dominik Atella-Suri
Institute for Food and Resource Economics
Nußallee 21
53115 Bonn

Project title
Essays in Environmental and Behavioral Economics

Host institution
Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Santander Grantee
Hanna de Boer
Institute for Food and Resource Economics
Nußallee 21
53115 Bonn

Project title
Essays of Behavioral Economics

Host institution
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkely, USA

Santander Grantee
Susanne Böller
Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW)
Heussallee 18-24
53115 Bonn

Project title
Class Placement and Friendship Segregation in Schools

Host institution
Department of Population Studiens, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Santander Grantee
Dominik Atella-Suri
Institute for Food and Resource Economics
Nußallee 21
53115 Bonn

Project title
Human cooperation in times of climate change-induced shocks: Evidence from lab and lab-in-the-field experiments.

Host institution
School of Sustainability and Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Santander Grantee
Rohini Mitra
Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Genscherallee 3
53113 Bonn

Project title
Navigating (In)visibility: Rohingya Refugees and the Politics of Fragmented Governance Across India.

Host institution
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Santander Grantee
Kristin Brennhäußer
Institute for Entrepreneurship (IES)
Meckenheimer Alle 172
53115 Bonn

Project title
Unpacking the Mechanisms Shaping Entrepreneurial Resilience.

Host institution
Melbourne Connect, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Santander Grantee
Lea Fischer
Institut für Humangenetik
Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25
53127 Bonn

Project title
Deciphering Genetic Contributions to Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Using CRISPR Knock-out Screens and Functional Analyses in iPSC-Derived Neuronal Models

Host institution
Ahituv Lab, University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Santander Grantee
Veronika Lukyanova
AOVision Labor Bonn
Ernst-Abbe-Str. 2
53127 Bonn

Project title
The elemental building blocks of visual space perception

Host institution
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Santander Grantee
Karen van de Locht
Institute of Nutritional and Food Sciences (IEL)
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 7
53115 Bonn

Project title
Bestimmung der Ökologischen Nachhaltigkeit individueller Ernährungsweisen und pflanzenbasierter Ernährungsmuster im Kindes- und Jugendalter und deren prospektive Assoziationen mit der metabolischen Gesundheit im jungen Erwachsenenalter: Analysen in der  DONALD-Studie

Host institution
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Agogo, Ghana

Santander Grantee
Anas Ansar
Faculty of Arts
Rabinstr. 8
53111 Bonn

Project title
The Ambivalent Everyday Lives and the Geography of Precarity: Rohingya Refugees in Southeast Asia

Host institution
Institut d'Asie Orientale (Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon), Lyon, France

Santander Grantee
Angela Benkhadda
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2291
Genscherallee 3
53113 Bonn

Project title
Native American Historical Fiction: Conflicting Epistemologies and Political Discourses

Host institution
Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Santander Grantee
James Krull
Department of History
Konviktstraße 11
53113 Bonn

Project title
Mourning with the ‘Force of History’ – National Days of Remembrance in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom since 1945

Host institution
Institute for Transnational & Spatial History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Santander Grantee
Philipp Schirmer
Faculty of Law and Economics
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn

Project title
Essays in Microeconomics

Host institution
Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Santander Grantee
Olga Teplytska
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Wegelerstraße 10
53115 Bonn

Project title
Towards artificial neural networks for precision dosing of oral anticancer drugs 

Host institution
Department of Pharmaceutics, working group of Prof. Dr. Stephan Schmidt, Gainesville, USA

Santander Grantee
Morten Bierganns
The Rectorate’s Executive Management
Dechenstraße 3-11
53115 Bonn

Project title
Kreativität: Konstellationen ihrer Begriffsgeschichte in Literatur, Ökonomie, Psychologie und Technologie vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert 

Host institution
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Santander Grantee
Frederike Graelmann
Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES)
Carl-Troll-Straße 31
53115 Bonn

Project title
Metabolic Regulation Through the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Repressor via Immune Cell/ Adipocyte Interactions

Host institution
AhRimmunity - Stockinger, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom

Santander Grantee
Valentin Michels
Institute of Geosciences
Nußallee 8
53115 Bonn

Project title
Structural and functional field root sensing using spectral electrical impedance tomography

Host institution
Earth and environmenal sciences area - Geophysics department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States of America

Santander Grantee
Dr. Kaja Faßbender
Department of Psychology
Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9
53111 Bonn

Project title
Fundamentals and Mechanisms of Inhibitory Control 

Host institution
Brunel University London, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, London, United Kingdom

Santander Grantee
Ingrid Weilack
Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5
53115 Bonn

Project title
Analysis and characterization of red wine compounds relevant for the sensory perception

Host institution
California State University, Viticulture and Enology Research Center, Fresno, USA

Santander Grantee
Nicola Arsic
Network for Young Researchers in Andrology (NYRA)
08021 Barcelona, Spain

Project title
Natural sperm selection in the female reproductive tract: from basic mechanisms to in vitro application

Host institution
Department of Developmental Pathology, Institute of Pathology, University Clinics Bonn, Faculty of Medicine, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Kow Ahor Essel-Yorke
University Of Cape Coast
Cape Coast, Ghana

Project title
AI-Driven Spatio-temporal Eco-Hydrological Modelling for River Health Restoration: The Case of Pra River Basin, Ghana

Host institution
Institute of Geography, AG Evers, Ecohydrology and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Kofi Asihene
University of Ghana
Legon Boundary
Accra, Ghana

Project title
Finding the Voice of the Disabled Black Slave: An Analysis of the Concept of Slavery through the Lens of Disability

Host institution
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, “The concept of slavery in African history” Research Group, Faculty of Arts, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Lewis Newland
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
792 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Melbourne, Australia

Project title
Dissecting mechanisms of CD8+ T cell-mediated control of melanoma

Host institution
Institute of Experimental Oncology, University Clinics Bonn, Faculty of Medicine, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Samuel Holleran
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Melbourne, Australien

Project title
Sustaining the Cemetery: Class, Care, and the Eco-Imaginary in Australian Burial Grounds

Host institution
Department of Archeology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Gilbert Dagunga
University for Development Studies
Tamale, Ghana

Project title
Multiple shocks, agroecology and resilience of smallholder household food security in northern Ghana

Host institution
Department of Political and Cultural Change (ZEF A) and Department of Economic and Technological Change (ZEF B) and working groups of Dr. Wolfram Laube and Dr. Lukas Kornher, Faculty of Arts, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Christian Kwesi Owusu
University of Cape Coast
Cape Coast, Ghana

Project title
Modeling the Responses of Ecological Indicators to Land Use Dynamics in the Ankobra River Basin, Southwestern Ghana

Host institution
Eco-Hydrology and Water Resources Management & Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Valeria Morelli
The University Of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Melbourne, Australien

Project title
“The Whispering of Generations”: Memories of National Socialism and the Second World War in Uwe Timm’s Post-Reunification Literature

Host institution
Department of German and Comparative Literature and Culture, Faculty of Arts, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Matteo Poiani
Comparative Religion Department 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 9190501, Israel

Project title
La première réception traduite d'Évagre le Pontique en latin et syriaque : étude comparative de nouvelles éditions critiques

Host institution
Faculty of Catholic Theology, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Robert Petitpas
University College London
Gower St
London WC1E 6BT, Vereinigtes Königreich

Project title
Human-tree relationships, nature ontologies and conservation politics: the case of pewen tree in Chile

Host institution
Working group of social geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Mikel Irastorza
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 9190501, Israel

Project title
Measuring the occurrence and extent of coupled transcription-translation in bacteria 

Host institution
Institute for Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Bonn, Germany

Santander Grantee
Alexander Compton
Emory University
201 Dowman Dr
Atlanta, GA 30322, Vereinigte Staaten

Project title
Radical Diasporists: Black Activism in Postwar Germany and the Global Struggle to Decolonize Europe

Host institution
Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Bonn, Germany