Zeynep Altintas (Bio-Engineering) develops nanomaterial-based biosensors for health care diagnostics.

Sabine Ammon (Philosophy and Engineering) established her a DFG research group "Knowledge Dynamics in the Engineering Sciences" at TU Berlin.

Irene Anastasiadou (History) explored the socio-political factors which influenced the establishment of transportation routes between Europe and Asia.

Ewa Bacia (Education Science) successfully defended her habilitation at TU Berlin in April 2018.

Maren Borkert (Sociology) continues her research on migrant and refugee entrepreneurship at TU Berlin's Center for Entrepreneurship.

Aude Bouchet (Physical Chemistry) is now Assistant Professor at the Université de Lille Sciences et Technologies.

Cleopatra Cuciumita (Aerospace Engineering) devotes her research to the development of a new type of turbine.

Pilar Diez del Corral Correidora (Art History) is currently a Ramón y Cajal Professor Researcher at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, where she investigates the Spanish and Portuguese cultural presence in Rome in the 18th century.

Nicole Dörr (Migration and Gender Studies) combines the IPODI fellowship with her professorial position in Copenhagen for a comparative study on the European "refugee crisis".

Monika Egerer (Urban Ecology) studies urban agricultural systems to deepen the understanding of influences on biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning.

Valentina Fava (History) used her extensive archival research to reframe the discussion about the circulation and transformation of production models in the global automobile industry.

Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis (Economics) sought insight into the global productive value chain of machinery and equipment in Germany and BRIICS.

For Nora Gottlieb (Public Health), the IPODI fellowship offered the opportunity to return to Germany after prolonged stays in Israel and the USA.

Manon Grube (Neuroscience) continues her research on cognitive time and rythm processing as Assistant Professor at the Center for Music in the Brain of Aarhus University.

Esther Klann (Mathematics) focuses in her research on advancing Mumford-Shah type methods for tomography.

Miram Kyselo (Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences) founded the Inter-Self Lab at TU Berlin in order to pursue her interest in an interdisciplinary and integrative concept of the self and of intersubjectivity.

In May, Kateřina Lišková (History and Gender studies) published her book "Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style" with Cambridge University Press.

Marta Maria Lavouras Mendes (Molecular Biology) used cross-linking and mass spectrometry in order to determine protein structures.

Ewa Nowicka (Chemistry) moved her research on methane oxidation catalysts to TU Berlin's cluster of excellence "Unifying Concepts in Catalysis".

IPODI Alumna Sarah Pourciau (German Studies) continues her research at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin.

Brigida Proto (sociologist) conducted an ethnography of migrant women's mental health in Berlin's asylum shelters.

Antonella Radicchi (Architecture) continues her research on Berlin's urban soundscape at TU Berlin with funding from the HEAD Genuit Foundation.

Allison Stagg (Art History) specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and American art, with a focus on print culture and visual humor.

After her IPODI fellowship, Minoo Tasbihi (Chemistry) continues her research on photocatalytic reforming of CO₂ + CH₄ under the umbrella of a BMBF project  at TU Berlin.

After her fellowship, Theresa Velden (Information Sciences) continues her research as a junior research group leader at the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies in Berlin.

Iris Wien (Art History) focused on the discourse on "graphic marks" beginning in the late eighteenth century in order to address general problems inherent in the constitution of pictorial meaning.

Shirin Ismail (Geology) worked as an Associate IPODI Fellow at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.