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2025 | Award – Wissen der Vielen – Research Award for Citizen Science (3rd Place), Leipzig, Germany.
Recognized for outstanding participatory research on 3D-printed prostheses for children and collaborative innovation practices. Award amount: €5,000.00.
2025-02-01 – ongoing | Grant, URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.14613191, Grant Number: 551920228, “Manufacturing Practices of Medical Instruments in Innovation Clusters: A Comparative Study of Tuttlingen, Sialkot and Samsun,” Principal Investigator, Grant amount: 752.966 €, funded by the DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation (DFG)
2024 | Travel Grant Award for the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (Amsterdam, NL), grant amount: USD500.00.
2019-03-01 – 2022-02-28 | Grant, URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8389801, Grant Number: 01UG1903, “Wissen entgrenzen: Internationalisierung, Vernetzung, Innovation in der und durch die Max Weber Stiftung,” Standing Working Group: Iran and Beyond- Breaking the Ground for Sustainable Scholarly Collaboration (IRSSC). Performance of Culture, Religion and the Body as Strategies for Self-Empowerment in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Co-Principal Investigator, Grant amount: €3,240,935.00, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn, DE)
2016 | Grant, International conference, Grant Number: 30.16.0.09250, “Upgrades of Nature, Future Bodies: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives,” Principal Investigator, Grant amount: €12,105.00, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation.
2012-2013: “Processes of Blurring Boundaries in Medical Procedures and Practices through Medical Innovations – A Comparative Analysis,” Principal Investigator, funded by the research cluster “Transformation of contemporary societies,” University of Duisburg-Essen.
2008-2013: Ph.D. fellowship in the project “TRANSDISS- disciplinary research in transdisciplinarity,” funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany).
2011: 4S Fellowship (Society for Social Studies of Science) at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory | European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBL|EMBO) Science and Society Summer School “The Human Animal: Scientific, Social and Moral Perspectives,” Heidelberg (Germany).
2009-2010: Fellowship at the Program “Science, Technology and Society,” Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA).
2008-2011: Stipendiary, doctoral student and member of the Postgraduate Program “Bioethics,” a Research Training Group of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the International Centre of Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), University of Tübingen (Germany).