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.
Michaela Mahlberg | Applied linguistics
Language is the key to the world. Michaela Mahlberg uses computer-aided, quantitative linguistic methods to study huge bodies of text, not least with regard to the social function of language. At the new centre of Digital Humanities and Social Studies she will explore the social dimension of the datafication and algorithmisation of culture and society. more
As Humboldtians, they are all members of the Humboldt Family: currently sponsorship recipients and alumni from more than 140 countries, including 61 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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800 awards and fellowships are granted by the Humboldt Foundation every year.
Mouhamed Moustapha Fall (German Research Chair at AIMS Senegal)
“Mathematics offers huge optimization potential to the African people.”
“Mathematics offers huge optimization potential to the African people.”
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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Court case in Ecuador
How a Humboldtian helped the Indigenous Siekopái people to justice
Networking in beautiful Bamberg: Symposium for Humboldt Research Award Winners.
Philipp Schwartz Forum in Berlin
Conference and network meeting on 3 and 4 April to discuss international scientific freedom and the protection of researchers
Syria faces enormous challenges in (re)building a strong science community – international exchange and the ties to Germany can offer support. We were part of a fact-finding mission.
Who wants to live forever? ComLab#10 calls for researchers and journalists to join forces once again. Apply now!
What is needed to ensure research can meet the challenges of the future
Voices from the network: what international researchers would recommend to the new German government
Markus Zanner is new secretary general of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Former Kanzler of the University of Technology Nuremberg to take up his duties on 1 May 2025.
Here they are, the 2025 Climate Protection Fellows!
Humboldt Colloquium promotes the sharing of expertise and knowledge in southern Africa
Some 100 researchers to gather in Pretoria, South Africa, from 6 to 8 March.
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Georg Forster Research Fellowship
The Fellowship for postdoctoral and experienced researchers from developing and emerging countries who are contributing to sustainable development. The sponsorship is equivalent to the Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Publications in the Humboldt Network
Rosi Braidotti (Ed.): The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities
Edinburgh University Press, 2024
