JICE Visiting Fellowships

The Joint Institute for Individualisation in a Changing Environment (JICE) offers Visiting Fellowships to outstanding scientists from all over the world for enabling them to engage in exchange and to collaborate within the interdisciplinary research environment of the JICE. The Visiting Fellowships will be granted for research stays of up to three months at Bielefeld University or the University of Münster, during which the Visiting Fellows contribute to advancing individualisation research.

What is provided?

The Visiting Fellows will benefit from:

• funding of travel expenses
• a monthly stipend of up to 1,500 € to cover accommodation and additional expenses
• a workspace at Bielefeld University or the University of Münster
• integration into an inspiring interdisciplinary research environment focused on individualisation research
• administrative support for the organisation of the stay

Based on their disciplinary background, the Visiting Fellows may additionally be associated with other programs related to the JICE, such as the Evolution Think Tank.

How to apply?

Applications are currently not being accepted. We will inform you here when applications are accepted again.

Contact

For further information:
Dr. Tobias Zimmermann
Scientific Coordinator
contact@jice.info

Current JICE Visiting Fellows

• Diddahally R. Govindaraju (Evolutionary Genetics)

  

  Dr Diddahally R. Govindaraju is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Aging at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a Research Associate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) at Harvard University, where he teaches 'Evolutionary Processes in Epidemiology and Precision Medicine'. The course bridges evolutionary genetics, epidemiology and key elements of precision medicine.

  Dr Govindaraju's research spans evolutionary genetics of plants and humans, with a sustained focus on understanding how evolutionary principles illuminate the origins and diversity of health and disease. During his JICE Visiting Fellowship, he will explore niche construction in evolution and human health, while developing a framework for individual-level thinking in precision medicine. His work integrates evolutionary principles with genotype–phenotype mapping at the individual level to illustrate how genetic architectures are modulated in a context-dependent manner within populations. This approach aims to advance the predictive, preventive and therapeutic aspects of precision medicine.