30.000 researchers worldwide belong to the Humboldt Foundation’s network.
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Humboldt Professorship Germany’s most valuable research award brings top international researchers to German universities.
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 59 Nobel Laureates.
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- 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.”
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ComLab#6: Winners chosen
On 20 January 2023, the four best projects from the sixth virtual Communication Lab on “Resource Scarcity” were honoured.
Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow
Beginning in 2022, the Humboldt Foundation is presenting an annual award funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.
Invitation to meet the new president of the Humboldt Foundation
Press conference with Robert Schlögl on 8 February in Berlin and online
Congratulations to Humboldtian Ashutosh Sharma, the new president of the Indian National Science Academy!
How to preserve #democracy: Brazilian anthropologist and historian Lilia Schwarcz talks about how vigilant democratic engagement and the integration of new concepts and principles may be used to fight rising #authoritarianism. #Humboldtian
New President for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation welcomes its new President! The chemist Robert Schlögl assumed office as the Foundation’s President at the beginning of 2023.
Social Cohesion – what it means, whether it’s possible or even desirable – was the topic of the 2022 Humboldt Residency Programme. Our new podcast explores how populism, science and technology, art and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
Future-proofing the Foundation!
At the turn of the year, Hans-Christian Pape’s term in office as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, that he assumed in 2018, comes to an end. The Foundation would like to thank the outgoing President for his commitment in turbulent times.
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ComLab#6: Winners chosen
On 20 January 2023, the four best projects from the sixth virtual Communication Lab on “Resource Scarcity” were honoured.
Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow
Beginning in 2022, the Humboldt Foundation is presenting an annual award funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation.
New President for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation welcomes its new President! The chemist Robert Schlögl assumed office as the Foundation’s President at the beginning of 2023.
Future-proofing the Foundation!
At the turn of the year, Hans-Christian Pape’s term in office as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, that he assumed in 2018, comes to an end. The Foundation would like to thank the outgoing President for his commitment in turbulent times.
How to tackle the biodiversity crisis
A response to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) from biogeographer and Humboldtian Tobias Kümmerle
The Humboldt Foundation congratulates two of its funding recipients upon being chosen to receive a Leibniz Prize
The newly selected winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize include the Humboldtians Largus T. Angenent and Hartmut Rosa.
The Humboldt Japan Colloquium
From 17 to 19 November, 150 researchers from the Japanese Humboldt Network, Japanese junior researchers as well as some of the Foundation’s partners and friends in German academia and politics got together at an online Humboldt Colloquium.
It’s a wrap: the 2022 Humboldt Residency cohort takes their leave
On 29 November, the members of the Humboldt Residency Programme got together for the last public event discussing how social cohesion is experienced and can be conveyed on campus.
Don’t be afraid of China!
Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, on how the science community should deal with China – an opinion piece in the DIE ZEIT newspaper
Pressemitteilungen
Invitation to meet the new president of the Humboldt Foundation
Press conference with Robert Schlögl on 8 February in Berlin and online
2022 Reimar Lüst Awards
Honours for outstanding research on Franco-German history and in neuropsychology
Six new Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Six top international researchers – including two who work in the AI field – have been chosen to receive Germany’s most valuable research award.
Additional funding rather than cuts: Humboldt Foundation to receive €6.5 million more for 2023
Budget Committee approves increase in basic funding.
Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany on participation in research
Enabling participation in research and actively supporting it wherever it promises added value for science and society is an important focus for the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany.
More than 200 international researchers from 47 countries in Frankfurt
Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to meet at Goethe University Frankfurt from 9 to 11 November
Awards for researchers from developing and transition countries
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Georg Forster Research Awards, each valued at €60,000.
Bundestag debate on the energy supply for science
The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany expressly welcomes the debate being held today in the plenary session of the German Bundestag regarding issues of concern to the science community in connection with the supply of energy.
Science and research in the energy crisis
The Alliance of Science Organisations is drawing attention to the threatening consequences which a possi-ble energy crisis could have for science and academia in Germany.
Congratulations to Humboldtian Ashutosh Sharma, the new president of the Indian National Science Academy!
How to preserve #democracy: Brazilian anthropologist and historian Lilia Schwarcz talks about how vigilant democratic engagement and the integration of new concepts and principles may be used to fight rising #authoritarianism. #Humboldtian
Social Cohesion – what it means, whether it’s possible or even desirable – was the topic of the 2022 Humboldt Residency Programme. Our new podcast explores how populism, science and technology, art and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
Science is an important tool in defending #HumanRights worldwide! #HumanRightsDay #StandUp4HumanRights #UDHR75
It is the last leg of the journey for our Humboldt Residency Programme! In his opening speech at the wrap-up event of the 2022 Residency cohort, Secretary General Enno Aufderheide emphasised the societal value of the pilot programme.
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International Climate Protection Fellowship
Climate experts wanted! Young leaders and postdocs from transition and developing countries can apply for an International Climate Protection Fellowship until 1 February 2023.
Publications in the Humboldt Network
Sharon Macdonald: Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage
transcript, 2022
Wolfgang Schwentker: Geschichte Japans
C.H. Beck, 2022
Vanesa Miseres, Rocío del Aguila (Ed.): Food Studies in Latin American Literature
The University of Arkansas Press, 2021
Frank B. Wilderson III: Afropessimismus
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2021
Barry Smith, Jobst Landgrebe: Why Machines Will Never Rule the World
Routledge, 2022
