The Collegium de Lyon welcomes new fellows

The 2022-23 promotion of the Collegium

The new cohort of fellows covers a variety of 15 disciplines for which they will work in close collaboration with 8 laboratories in Lyon and Saint-Etienne.

The fellows come from all over the world : United States, Brazil, Italy, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Russia, Japan, Iran, Tunisia, United Kingdom.

The residencies at the Collegium de Lyon last 5 or 10 months, and fellows arrive in September and February.

Focus on the fellows starting their residencies in September :

• Mahdi Kazempour, Iranian archaeologist (Studying the origin of Sgraffito pottery technique in the North-West of Iran and the interactions between this area and the Caucasus during early and middle Islamic periods (10-14th Centuries)

• Glen Dutcher, American economist (Can innovation be taught? An economic analysis of education's influence on creativity in France and the U.S.)

• Melissa Marschke, Canadian researcher in Environmental Studies (Work at Sea: Exploring how migrant workers faceunacceptable working conditions in industrial fisheries)

• Aparecida Maria Fontes, Brazilian researcher in Genetics (Development of a mRNA-based vaccine against SARS-COV-2 encoding multiple epitopes and using Lipo Particle as innovative carrier)

• Joe Wheaton, American geomorphologist (Operationalizing Riverscapes Consortium Services into Practice)

• Olga Dror, American historian (Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood)

• Amine Lahyani, Tunisian electrical engineer (Integration of energy storage based on batteries and supercapacitors in smart grids: which technologies to employ and what benefits to expect?)

• Michael Daniel, Russian linguist (Source-Goal asymmetry: evidence from East Caucasian)

• Jumana Bayeh, Australian researcher in Literature (Precarious Borders : The Nation-State and the Arab Diaspora Novel in English)

• Candice Delmas, French researcher in Philosophy (The Only Weapon Left: A Philosophical Theory of Self-Destructive Resistance)

• Veronica Zubillaga, Venezuelan sociologist (Urban violence in Latin America: the case of Caracas. A comparative ethnographic perspective)

• Max Kramer, German researcher in Literature (Questioning the Global LGBTQ+ Advance)

• Jesse Olszynko-Gryn, Canadian historian (The Dépakine affair: Communicating reproductive risk in post-thalidomide France)

• Plinio Smith, Brazilian researcher in Philosophy (The science of oneself: ignorance and skepticism in Book III of Montaigne’s Essais)

Prospects : the residencies will be supported by scientific works through seminars, conferences, symposiums organized with Lyon’s scientific community and socio-economic stakeholders.