The International Faculty Program of
the University of Cologne
The International Faculty Program is a cornerstone of the internationalization strategy for the four Key Profile Areas defined in the UoC’s Institutional Strategy. The program aims at attracting outstanding international researchers who already collaborate closely with researchers based at the UoC. It targets the Key Profile Areas, increasing their visibility and competitiveness at the international level. The program will also contribute to the internationalization of teaching especially at the post-graduate level and is steered by the Prorector for Academic Career, Diversity and International Affairs in close collaboration with the Key Profile Areas. Contracts with international faculty members are made for two years with the option of being extended.
International faculty contribute to the scientific and academic tasks and duties of the KPAs. A minimum presence in Cologne of six weeks per contractual year is required as well as close collaboration with the regular faculty of the UoC. Professors recruited through the program will directly participate in the mentoring of doctoral candidates.
Members of the International Faculty
KPA I: Aging-associated Diseases
- Prof. Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers
Department of Genetics, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Prof. Tamas L. Horvath
Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Research and Chair, Yale University
KPA II: Behavioral Economic Engineering and Social Cognition
- Prof. Dr. Gary E. Bolton
O. P. Jindal Chair Professor of Management Economics, University of Texas at Dallas - Prof. Dr. Peter Cramton
Professor of Economics, University of Maryland - Prof. Dr. Adam Galinsky
Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School at Columbia University - Prof. Dr. Jacob K. Goeree
Distinguished Research Professor at the University Technology Sydney
Economics Discipline Group - Prof. Dr. Elena Katok
Ashbel Smith Professor, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
KPA III: Quantum Matter and Materials
- Kamran Behnia
Senior researcher at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris - Prof. Alex Kamenev
Professor at the Physics Department and a member of Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis - Bernard Kippelen, Ph.D.
Co-President of the Institut LafayetteDirector, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics
Joseph M. Pettit Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Prof. Xiaonan Ma
Professor of Mathematics at Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7 - Prof. Dr. Fulvio Pamigiani
Professor of condensed matter at the department of physics, faculty of Science, of the Università degli Studi of Trieste
KPA IV: Socio-economic, Cultural and Political Transformations in the Gobal South
- Prof. David M. Anderson
Professor of African History, Global History & Culture Centre at the University of Warwick - Prof. Dr. Mirta Zaida Lobato
Professor of History, University of Buenos Aires - Prof. Dr. Julio Ortega
Professor of Hispanic Studies, Brown University - Prof. Dr. Bill Pritchard
Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Sydney
CA III: Quantitative modelling of complex systems
- Prof. Dr. Pavlos Kollias
Professor at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, of Stony Brook University – State University of New York
Atmospheric Scientist, Department of Environmental Sciences Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY
CA V: Social Inequalities and Intercultural Education
- Prof. Dr. Ofelia García
Professor in the Ph.D. programs of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Former members of the International Faculty
- Prof. Robert J. Gordon
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, The University of Vermont - Prof. Jodi Nunnari
Professor at Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; University of California, Davis - Prof. Dana M Small, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Medical School and Deputy Director of the John B Pierce Laboratory - Prof. Dr. Matthias Sutter
Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Cologne - Prof. Abdulkader Tayob
Research Chair at the University of Cape Town (Islam, African Publics and Religious Values)