Fellow

Nadja Germann

FELLOW

University of Freiburg

Professor Nadja Germann is a lecturer on philosophy in the Islamic world at the University of Freiburg.

Her research focuses on the philosophy of language and logic in classical Arabic-Islamic thought, epistemology and metaphysics, and natural philosophy in the Latin early Middle Ages.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Willem van der Molen

FELLOW

Universitas Indonesia

Willem van der Molen is a senior researcher at KITLV and professor of philology and Old Javanese at Universitas Indonesia in Depok, Indonesia.

Within the field of his interest, the languages and literatures of Indonesia, his focus is on the history of Javanese literature. He participates in the Tokyo-based project ‘Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts'.

2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

Ronit Ricci

FELLOW

The Hebrew University

Eric Ford

FELLOW

Penn State University

Eric Ford is a professor in astrophysics and an expert on how planets are formed at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, at Penn State University.

He combines theoretical research with observation to improve understanding of our solar system and beyond. His research centers around planet formation, the dynamical evolution of planetary systems, & extrasolar planets.

2018-2019 Fellow: Big Data and Planets

Gad Freudenthal

FELLOW

CNRS

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century, and has focused his research on Greek philosophies of matter.

He is the editor of the journal Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Arye Edrei

FELLOW

Tel Aviv University

George Quinn

FELLOW

Australian National University

George Quinn is a professor at the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University.

His research focuses on the literature and popular culture of contemporary Java; patterns and sites of pilgrimmage in Java and Madura; and the Catholic Church in East Timor.

2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

Hannah Kasher

FELLOW

Bar-Ilan University

Hannah Kasher is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Jewish Thought, at Bar-Ilan University.

She holds the Alter and Chaya Shneeweiss Chair in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Verena Kasper-Marienberg

FELLOW

NC State University

Els Bogaerts

FELLOW

Independent Scholar

Charles Manekin

FELLOW

The University of Maryland

Charles Manekin is Professor of Philosophy at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland.

He specializes in the history of philosophy, specifically medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy. He is also interested in the history of science among Muslims and Jews. The focus of Manekin's research has been Aristotelian and humanist logic in Hebrew, the philosophy of Levi Gersonides, and the free will problem in Jewish philosophy.

2018-2019 Organizer: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Tsevi Mazeh

FELLOW

Tel Aviv University

Tsevi Mazeh is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.

Throughout his career, he has functioned as both theorist and observer, and is a popular writer and public speaker on Astronomy, History of Science, and Science and Religion. Currently, Mazeh is leading an international effort to detect planets and brown-dwarfs by novel relativistic effects.

2018-2019 Organizer:Big Data and Planets