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IAS Visiting Fellows award honors scientists with international reputation in their fields of study
March 23, 2011
Dr. Steve Blair has been named a
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study at the Technische
Universität München.
The Institute for Advanced Study at the Technische Universität München has selected Dr. Steve Blair of the Arnold School of Public Health to be an IAS Visiting Fellow for 2011.
Blair, who holds faculty appointments in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Department of Exercise Science at the Arnold School, will visit the university's Munich campus in March and July. He will be working with Professor Martin Halle, a university professor and chair, department of prevention and sports medicine. Halle has several large datasets that include extensive follow-up, and Blair will collaborate in data analysis and writing manuscripts.
The IAS Visiting Fellows program recognizes scientists and engineers who have a great international reputation in their academic fields of study and intend to engage in collaborative research with researchers in the institute.
The program is part of the Excellence Initiative begun in 2005 by the German federal and state governments to promote top-level research in Germany. The Excellence Initiative aims at strengthening science and research in Germany in the long term, improving its international competitiveness and raising the profile of the top performers in academia and research. The IAS at Technische Universität München was formally established to advance the university's strengths, including engineering sciences, industry research and the humanities. The university named its first ISA visiting fellows in October 2007.
The recognition for Blair underscores the national and international visibility of the Arnold School's department of exercise science and Blair's academic studies.
The fellowship is one of several recent honors for Blair, who is the 2010 – 11 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair at Iowa State University's College of Human Sciences, and received the Pfizer Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Blair was selected for the 2010 Folksam Prize in Epidemiological Research at a ceremony last fall at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. The institute is considered one of the world's leading medical universities.
