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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“We must all work to keep academic and scientific freedom alive”
The Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research have awarded the 2025 Humboldt Professorships.
Award ceremony for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships on 5 May in Berlin
Federal Minister of Education and Research Cem Özdemir to present Germany’s most valuable international research award with which the six recipients are relocating to a German university.
Happy #WorldPenguinDay! Did you know that the Humboldt penguin (with whom Humboldt dances here) can blush?
We stand united with US academia in defence of science! Our president Robert Schlögl calls for global solidarity to protect the science systems.
"I am truly humbled to join a league of thinkers who dare to wonder." Dana Branzei will be awarded a Humboldt Professorship in Berlin on 5 May!
“Courage is contagious” – The Philipp Schwartz Forum in Berlin
Some 360 persons attended the Philipp Schwartz Forum in Berlin on 3 and 4 April at the invitation of the Humboldt Foundation.
More than 100 researchers from 37 countries to attend network meeting in Bochum
Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will meet at Ruhr University Bochum from 9 to 11 April.
Court case in Ecuador
How a Humboldtian helped the Indigenous Siekopái people to justice
Networking in beautiful Bamberg: Symposium for Humboldt Research Award Winners.
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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
