30.000 researchers worldwide belong to the Humboldt Foundation’s network.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Humboldt Professorship Germany’s most valuable research award brings top international researchers to German universities. Here are some of them.
Angela Schoellig | Robotics and artificial intelligence
How can we push back the limits of machine learning? And what limits do we need to set to robots’ autonomous decision-making?. Angela Schoellig is searching for the answers. more
Henning Walczak | Biochemistry / Immunology
As a Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne, Henning Walczak pursues the “from bench to bedside” approach to amalgamate pre-clinical and clinical research to a greater extent. more
Andrea Bréard | History of science
Mathematician, science historian, sinologist and philosopher Andrea Bréard investigates the history of mathematics in China. more
Kou Murayama | Psychology
What motivates us? What increases our motivation and what dampens it? Kou Murayama explores these questions with a particular eye to learning processes. more
Joacim Rocklöv | Epidemiology and Public Health
Is there a link between climate change and the spread of disease? Joacim Rocklöv informs this controversial discussion by delivering important data and analyses. more
As Humboldtians, they are all members of the Humboldt Family: currently sponsorship recipients and alumni from more than 140 countries, including 57 Nobel Laureates.
The Humboldt Foundation
- We sponsor researchers, regardless of discipline and nationality.
- We strengthen Germany as a research location through international academic exchange.
- We support our fellows and award winners for their entire lifetime.
- We campaign for international understanding, scientific progress and development.
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Research the global Humboldt Network. Our database includes most of the Humboldt Foundation’s 30,000 sponsorship recipients worldwide.
800 awards and fellowships are granted by the Humboldt Foundation every year.
Marc Sedjro (German Research Chair at AIMS South Africa)
“At my host institute I had access to the most recent specialist literature as well as recognised experts in my field – this enriched my research enormously.”
“At my host institute I had access to the most recent specialist literature as well as recognised experts in my field – this enriched my research enormously.”
Humboldt Geography of Knowledge Where do most of the successful applicants and nominees come from and where are the Foundation’s alumni doing their research today?
Humboldt is everywhere
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We are looking forward to the #HumboldtConcert on 9 November! Join us from 6:30 pm (CET) for a festive evening with music by Mozart & Brahms, performed by members of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn!
Support for science
The endowment of €500,000 granted by Mr. Winfried Pohl will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl tells us what motivated him to support the Humboldt Foundation.
“This is a signal for a new start.”
Humboldt Foundation welcomes the new federal government’s coalition agreement and expects them to have a positive effect on Germany’s international attractiveness.
New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Ten top international researchers – including six who work in the AI field – have been chosen to receive Germany’s most valuable research award.
Stepping up for #ClimateAction: 12 Climate Protection Fellows created the podcast "Climate Beyond Borders" where researchers from developing countries discuss #ClimateChange impacts and share their expertise to provide potential solutions. #ICPFellows
More help for Afghanistan
Humboldt Foundation and DAAD expand fellowship programme
Many thanks to Heiko Thoms, German ambassador to Brazil! He personally handed over a donation of laptops from the Humboldt Foundation to Humboldtian Lucio Renno.
Smart New Worlds
For the fourth time, the Humboldt Communication Lab (ComLab) brought together ten researchers and ten journalists to share ideas and opinions on current social developments.
Very happy to have Rebecca Winkels from Wissenschaft im Dialog at our #ResearchComLab today. She presented various formats of #ScienceCommunication, from barcamps to social media. But how do you find the right tool for you? #scicomm #IJP
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Support for science
The endowment of €500,000 granted by Mr. Winfried Pohl will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl tells us what motivated him to support the Humboldt Foundation.
Smart New Worlds
For the fourth time, the Humboldt Communication Lab (ComLab) brought together ten researchers and ten journalists to share ideas and opinions on current social developments.
Ways out of the crisis
With creativity and autonomy, sustainable education can succeed.
"Academic freedom is dead in Belarus."
The time has come for science diplomacy: support for Belarussian academics is an investment in the future.
Register now for the TEDxKanzlerPark Conference 2021
Fellows and alumni of the German Chancellor Fellowship will discuss about Building a Common Future, Change of Perspective, and (Un)Harnessing the Internet
“We are a family”
Humboldtians from Central and Eastern Europe draw a positive balance following virtual colloquium
New call for applications for International Climate Protection Fellowships
Prospective leaders from transition and developing countries can now apply to the International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme.
Winners of the third ComLab announced
The best four works of journalism from the third Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes.
GAIN 2021: Hans-Christian Pape on new challenges facing science
Watch the video message from Hans-Christian Pape, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the opening of the 2021 GAIN annual meeting.
Pressemitteilungen
New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Ten top international researchers – including six who work in the AI field – have been chosen to receive Germany’s most valuable research award.
“This is a signal for a new start.”
Humboldt Foundation welcomes the new federal government’s coalition agreement and expects them to have a positive effect on Germany’s international attractiveness.
More help for Afghanistan
Humboldt Foundation and DAAD expand fellowship programme
What researchers around the world hope for from Germany’s new government
International engagement and reforms, less bureaucracy and more freedom for science – Voices from the Humboldt Foundation’s international network
Network meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will revolve around promoting international exchange
Some 215 researchers to attend the hybrid event being held in Cologne from 8 - 10 November
On the trail of Beethoven – hybrid research symposium
From 20 to 23 October, music scholars from more than 40 countries will discuss Ludwig van Beethoven’s cultural legacy. The opening ceremony and concerts will be streamed live.
Between Preprint and Shitstorm
Latest issue of the Humboldt Kosmos magazine on the state of science communication in a time of pandemics and climate change
2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the Humboldtian Benjamin List
While a postdoc, List conducted research in the USA as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow. He has now been selected to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.
Humboldt Foundation supports six new research hubs in Africa
They are to help cope with the current pandemic and develop strategies for handling future crises.
We are looking forward to the #HumboldtConcert on 9 November! Join us from 6:30 pm (CET) for a festive evening with music by Mozart & Brahms, performed by members of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn!
Stepping up for #ClimateAction: 12 Climate Protection Fellows created the podcast "Climate Beyond Borders" where researchers from developing countries discuss #ClimateChange impacts and share their expertise to provide potential solutions. #ICPFellows
Many thanks to Heiko Thoms, German ambassador to Brazil! He personally handed over a donation of laptops from the Humboldt Foundation to Humboldtian Lucio Renno.
Very happy to have Rebecca Winkels from Wissenschaft im Dialog at our #ResearchComLab today. She presented various formats of #ScienceCommunication, from barcamps to social media. But how do you find the right tool for you? #scicomm #IJP
Once a Humboldtian, always a #Humboldtian! Secretary General Enno Aufderheide at the opening of the hybrid Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. #AvHNet
#Astrophysicist Paola Pinilla regularly visits "delivery rooms" in the cosmos to find out how planets come from gas and dust. More stories about exciting research in the new Humboldt Kosmos Magazine!
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International Climate Protection Fellowship
Prospective leaders and postdocs with climate expertise from non-European developing and transition countries can apply until 1 February 2022.
Publications in the Humboldt Network
Eva Illouz, Dana Kaplan: Was ist sexuelles Kapital?
Suhrkamp, 2021
Detlef Siegfried: Bogensee
Wallstein, 2021
Phoebe Kornfeld: Passionate Publishers – The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency
Archway Publishing, 2021
Marc Sagnol: Galizien und Lodomerien
Kadmos Kulturverlag, 2021
Shmuel Feiner: The Jewish Eighteenth Century Download/Print Leaflet The Jewish Eighteenth Century
Indiana University Press, 2020
Sven Reichardt: Die Misstrauensgemeinschaft der „Querdenker“
campus, 2021
