Eleven more International Fellows to enrich research and teaching at TH Köln

In 2026 and 2027, these scientists will be visiting TH Köln:

Dr. Carolin Isabel Adam (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Carolin Isabel Adam

Fellowship title: Nonverbal Communication in Simultaneous Interpreting as an Indicator of Differences in Cognitive Load When Interpreting Into and From a Foreign Language.

Home university: Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Host faculty: Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Prof. Dr. Edvina Bešić (Image: privat)

Name: Prof. Dr. Edvina Bešić

Fellowship title: The Faculty as a Place of Inclusive Knowledge? Introduction, Design, and Further Development of Participatory Research

Home university: University of Vienna, Austria

Host faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences

Dr. Nancy Achieng Owuor Booker (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Nancy Achieng Owuor Booker

Fellowship title: Building Bridges for Impact: A fellowship to deepen collaboration between TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences and AKUGSMC through joint teaching, research, and special projects.

Home university: Aga Khan University, Kenya

Host faculty: Faculty of Cultural Sciences

Prof. Dr. Roberto Ivo da Rocha Lima Filho (Image: privat)

Name: Prof. Dr. Roberto Ivo da Rocha Lima Filho

Fellowship title: Risk Assessment of Flood Events in Rural Areas: Deep-Learning-Based Flood Maps as a Basis for Targeted Measures

Home university: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Host faculty: Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences

Dr. Anastasia Diatlova (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Anastasia Diatlova

Fellowship title: Precarious Employment Conditions – Precarious Subjectivation. Challenges and Potential for the Science and Practice of Social Work.

Home university: University of Helsinki, Finland

Host faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences

Prof. Dr. Enrique Diaz de Leon Lopez (Image: privat)

Name: Prof. Dr. Enrique Diaz de Leon Lopez

Fellowship title: Human-Centered Decision Intelligence: Augmenting Intangible Evaluation in Organizational Systems through AI and Cognitive Modeling

Home university: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

Host faculty: Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering Science

Dr. Tomoko Fukuda (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Tomoko Fukuda

Fellowship title: Comparative Study of 1. Adult Support and Protection Law Reform (Guardianship Law Reform) with a View to an Interdisciplinary Context and 2. Medical Consent and Autonomy

Home university: Ibaraki University, Japan

Host faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences

Prof. PhD. Mohammad Jafarinejad (Image: privat)

Name: Prof. PhD. Mohammad Jafarinejad

Fellowship title: International Perspectives on Financial Markets and Behavior

Home university: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA

Host faculty: Faculty of Economics and Law

Dr. Johan Pauwels (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Johan Pauwels

Fellowship title: Deep Learning for Spatial Audio Applications

Home university: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Host faculty: Faculty of Information, Media, and Electrical Engineering

Dr. Katarina Poole (Image: privat)

Name: Dr. Katarina Poole

Fellowship title: Cognitive Inference of Room Acoustics

Home institution: Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Host faculty: Faculty of Information, Media, and Electrical Engineering

Ntokozo Sibahle Yingwana (Image: privat)

Name: Ntokozo Sibahle Yingwana

Fellowship title: Queering Sex Work and Migration in Germany and South Africa: A Postcolonial Comparison of the Realities of Migrant Sex Workers in the Global South and North

Home institution: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Host faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences

About PLan_CV

The International Fellows program is part of the project PLan_CV („Professur-Laufbahn an Hochschulen für angewandte Wissenschaften neu denken: Collaboration und Vernetzung“). Its goal: Finding excellent candidates for professorial careers at TH Köln and achieving greater permeability between the academic world and the business sector. The project’s budget of 12.4 million Euros is funded through the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space program “FH-Personal” (staff for universities of applied sciences).