Fellow Period 2016–2020

Report

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Fellowship model

Between 2004 and 2020, the Collegium followed a “long-term-part-time-fellowship” model. Within this model, a small core group of professors from Zurich’s universities were selected by the Board of Trustees and appointed as fellows. During their four-year terms at the Collegium, the fellows continued to hold professorships and related duties at their respective universities and worked on their transdisciplinary Collegium projects on a part-time basis. During the fellow period of 2016 and 2020, the core group included seven fellows—three professors from ETH Zurich, three from the University of Zurich, and one from the Zurich University of the Arts.

The director and fellows would further appoint so-called “Associated Fellows,” who would bring valuable additional perspectives to the transdisciplinary exchange at the Collegium. Each year, guests, mostly from the fields of art or cultural studies, would be invited to join the Collegium to work on specific projects or to enrich the dialogue at the Collegium.

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

Projects

Following an induction phase completed in fall 2016, the fellows defined five projects through a bottom-up approach under the focus theme of “digital societies”:

• Digital Support for Decisions in Healthcare
  Team: Nikola Biller-Andorno (lead), Mike Martin (lead); Harald Atmanspacher, Phyllis Barth, Burcu Demiray, Mirriam Tyebally Fang, Andrea Ferrario, Petros Koumoutsakos, Minxia Luo, Federico Massini, Corine Mouton Dorey, Johann Roduit, Dorothy Sabet Rohrbasser, Karin Seiler, Carina Manuela Solothurnmann, Kristina Yordanova
• Digital Infrastructures
  Team: Monika Dommann (lead), Hannes Rickli (lead); Sascha Deboni, Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, Andrea Helbling, Marc Latzel, Ioana Marinica, Mike Martin, Christian Ritter, Max Stadler, Giorgio Scherrer, Renate Schubert, Christoph Stähli, Andrés Villa Torres
• Autonomies in the Digital Society:
  Team: David Gugerli (lead); Harald Atmanspacher, Joachim M. Buhmann, Moritz Mähr, Nick Schwery, Ricky Wichum, Maya Wohlgemuth, Daniela Zetti
• Privacy and the Value of Data
  Team: Renate Schubert (lead); Scherwin Bajka; Monika Dommann; Flavia Hug; Petros Koumoutsakos; Ioana Marinica; Luca Mosetti; Fatih Öz; Hannes Rickli; Florent Thouvenin; Yifei Wang
• Thinking + Computers + Data = Computing
  Team: Petros Koumoutsakos (lead); Georgios Arampatzis, Harald Atmanspacher, Phyllis Barth, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Federico Massini, Renate Schubert, Pantelis Rafail Vlachas

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

Directorship, board, and staff

Management board

Director: Thomas Hengartner (†)
Deputy Director: Hartmut von Sass
Head of Communication: Martin Schmid
Managing Head: Andrea Truttmann

Executive staff members

Subject specialist for natural sciences and engineering: Harald Atmanspacher
Subject specialist for art/media/design, management staff: Christian Ritter

Assistance

Assistant Communication: Andrea Ganz Heusser
Assistant Events: Michelle Gull
Assistant Administration: Maimuna Jobarteh

Trustees

Michael Hengartner, Rector University of Zurich
Thomas D. Meier, Rector Zurich University of the Arts
Sarah Springman, Rector ETH Zurich
Thierry Courvoisier, President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC)

Advisory council

Andrea B. Braidt
Dieter M. Imboden
Bernd Kortmann
Sabine Maasen
Paul Schubert
Denis Monard

Academic staff

Georgios Arampatzis
Sabine Baier
Phyllis Barth
Sascha Deboni
Burcu Demiray
Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff
Ioana Marinica
Federico Massini
Moritz Mähr
Corine Mouton Dorey
Fatih Öz
Nick Schwery
Karin Seiler
Max Stadler
Mirriam Tyebally Fang
Andrés Villa Torres
Pantelis Rafail Vlachas
Ricky Wichum
Daniela Zetti

Doctoral program “Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices”

Katerina Krtilova, Coordinator
Benno Wirz, Coordinator