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.
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.
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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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.
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 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.
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.
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
Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation Enno Aufderheide addresses the friends of the foundation worldwide, who supported us in the fight against the budgetary cuts: THANK YOU! #ScienceDiplomacy
Additional funding rather than cuts: Humboldt Foundation to receive €6.5 million more for 2023
Budget Committee approves increase in basic funding.
The #AvHNet in Frankfurt is over! Thanks to Goethe Uni and all Humboldtians for three days of inspiring scientific and personal networking!
Charity alone is not the solution
Sara Fouad, Egyptian professor of architecture, who specialises in waterways regeneration, shares her view on the situation in Egypt and how COP27 could bring much needed change.
Aktuelles
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.
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.
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
Charity alone is not the solution
Sara Fouad, Egyptian professor of architecture, who specialises in waterways regeneration, shares her view on the situation in Egypt and how COP27 could bring much needed change.
A solution-based approach to communicating resource crises
“Dwindling resources – growing conflicts”: Report on the 6th Communication Lab (28.–29.10. & 4.–5.11. 2022)
Cuts to the Humboldt Foundation's budget
“We are losing an advantage” - Interview with Antje Schwalb, member of the selection committee
Protests in Iran: Using art to fight the system
Iran is currently experiencing one of the largest waves of protests in decades. We spoke with the Iranian Humboldtian Raika Khorshidian about different forms of protest, communication channels and the cultural scene’s influence in Iran
New host for the Humboldt Network
The Munich immunologist Julia Jellusova, a new scout in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme will utilise her own networks to recruit three postdocs for her team.
New application round for International Climate Protection Fellowships
Cocoa is a core economic commodity in Ghana. The Ghanaian International Climate Protection Fellow Gabriel Antwi-Boasiako is working on a holistic model to predict the future and development of cocoa cultivation in his home country.
Pressemitteilungen
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.
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Humboldtians Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger
The Humboldt Network now counts 59 Nobel laureates among its members.
Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for Studies on Censorship and Disinformation
Award for political scientist Margaret Roberts and Medals for Vanessa Ogle and Wim Decock
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.
Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation Enno Aufderheide addresses the friends of the foundation worldwide, who supported us in the fight against the budgetary cuts: THANK YOU! #ScienceDiplomacy
The #AvHNet in Frankfurt is over! Thanks to Goethe Uni and all Humboldtians for three days of inspiring scientific and personal networking!
Last week, a successful Humboldt Kolleg was held in #Montevideo, Uruguay. Our former president Helmut Schwarz took part as well! Thank you for the inspiring exchange!
Where better to discuss Social Cohesion than in a pub? Political Psychologist Julia Elad-Strenger & Sociologist Richard Mole from the Humboldt Residency Programme invite you to an interactive debate during Berlin Science Week. 8.11. Register now!
Our #ResearchComLab podcast is out now! In “Bench Talks - A Conversation between Science and Media”, researchers and journalists discuss current world events and the state of Science Communication. Listen and subscribe!
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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
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
Tobias Boes: Thomas Mann's War
Cornell University Press, 2021
Hilary Brown: Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation
Oxford University Press, 2022
