Priv.-Doz. Dr. Giesela Rühl elected to the Junge Akademie
28.06.2010
On 26 June 2010 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Giesela Rühl was selected along with nine other scientists and scholars for membership in the Junge Akademie, a joint project Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
The Junge Akademie was founded in the year 2000 as an academy for the next generation of scientists and scholars. It is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary discourse and co-operation between outstanding young scientists and scholars, and supporting initiatives at the interface between science and society. Its members, junior researchers from German speaking regions, are chosen each year in elections that are conducted alternately by BBAW and Leopoldina in one year followed by the Junge Akademie in the next.
Giesela Rühl, after completing her studies in Bonn, Lausanne and Berkeley, was a research fellow at the Institut from 2005-2008. After completing here post-doctoral dissertation at the University of Hamburg she sat as guest professsor at the University of Illinois (USA). Presently she is serving as acting professor at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in the fields of civil law, private international law and comparative law.