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Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards for 2020 presented
Advancing research communication
Communication Lab: Prize winners of first workshop selected
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Better Connected! How cooperation benefits research
Humboldt Professorship Germany’s most valuable research award brings top international researchers to German universities. Here are some of them.
Tiffany Knight | Ecology
The ecologist Tiffany Knight explores biodiversity and biological invasion processes. more
Peter Dayan | Theoretical Neuroscience
Peter Dayan is a Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence and works at the intersection between the intelligence of living beings and machines. more
Margaret C. Crofoot | Biology
Margaret Crofoot investigates collective animal behaviour and movements, especially the development of complex societies, such as the group behaviour of apes. more
Till Bärnighausen | Epidemiology
The physician and epidemiologist Till Bärnighausen works in the field of global health research and is, amongst other things, a specialist in HIV research. more
Stefanie Petermichl | Mathematics
Stefanie Petermichl is a leading researcher in harmonic analysis, a branch of mathematics with wide-ranging application potential. more
As Humboldtians, they are all members of the Humboldt Family: currently sponsorship recipients and alumni from more than 140 countries, including 55 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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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.”
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?
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Humboldt Foundation expands research cooperation with Bulgaria
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Bulgarian National Science Fund have agreed upon a joint return programme to support Bulgarian scientists.
Happy 251st Birthday Alex! Why Alexander von Humboldt still matters today: Visit last year's anniversary website humboldt-heute.de/en/
Awards for researchers from developing and transition countries
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to present its Georg Forster Research Awards, each valued at €60,000.
Converting waste into a useful product: Humboldt Professor Largus Angenent and his research group are looking for new sources of carbon for the production of chemicals.
Environmental disaster off the coast of Mauritius
How the recent oil spill impacts the work of Humboldtian Nowsheen Goonoo
Artificial Intelligence helps to detect diseases: With the aid of artificial neural networks, Daniel Rückert has crucially improved the quality of medical imaging. Today he took up his position as a Humboldt Professor for AI at TU Munich.
Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards for 2020 presented
Eight researchers from abroad will each receive up to €1.65 million in prize money to be used to set up their own research groups in Bochum, Giessen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Mainz, Munich, Oberpfaffenhofen and Tübingen.
Communication Lab: Prizes awarded to winners of the first round
The best three works of journalism from the first round of the Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes organisation.
GAIN is now Virtual GAIN
Overseas networking meeting for German science: GAIN will be held digitally for the first time on August 28 and 29.
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Humboldt Foundation expands research cooperation with Bulgaria
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Bulgarian National Science Fund have agreed upon a joint return programme to support Bulgarian scientists.
Environmental disaster off the coast of Mauritius
How the recent oil spill impacts the work of Humboldtian Nowsheen Goonoo
Communication Lab: Prizes awarded to winners of the first round
The best three works of journalism from the first round of the Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes organisation.
BBAW to receive extensive collection of handwritten documents from the Humboldt Foundation
The gift of a manuscript collection from the Humboldt Foundation will significantly increase the archive holdings of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Assistance for Humboldt alumni returning to Romania
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Romanian research funding organisation UEFISCDI expand support for young Romanian scientists returning home.
Research Across Borders: Moving Forward
Virtual discussion, organised by Freie Universität Berlin and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Humboldt Foundation supports the Diversity Charter
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has signed the Diversity Charter, committing itself to creating a working environment that is respectful and free of biases.
Young researchers are of systemic importance!
The coronavirus is threatening the careers of talented researchers. What has to be done now in order to support them is the subject of a guest commentary written by the President of the Humboldt Foundation Hans-Christian Pape.
Aid campaign from China: International Humboldt Network shows strength
Humboldt alumni from China have collected donations to help Germany during the corona crisis.
Pressemitteilungen
Awards for researchers from developing and transition countries
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to present its Georg Forster Research Awards, each valued at €60,000.
Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards for 2020 presented
Eight researchers from abroad will each receive up to €1.65 million in prize money to be used to set up their own research groups in Bochum, Giessen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Mainz, Munich, Oberpfaffenhofen and Tübingen.
GAIN is now Virtual GAIN
Overseas networking meeting for German science: GAIN will be held digitally for the first time on August 28 and 29.
2020 Reimar Lüst Awards
Outstanding research on political violence and modern administrative law honoured
"An example of everything that can be done on virtual platforms"
Federal President Steinmeier at the Humboldt Foundation’s digital Annual Meeting
Digital Annual Meeting with Federal President Steinmeier
Humboldt Foundation’s Meeting with 1,000 international scientists and scholars to be held in digital form for the first time.
Europe’s research area of the future: diversity generates knowledge
Joint event hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD and ifa for the virtual Long Night of Ideas
“This won’t be the last crisis.”
International comments from science and academia on the coronavirus pandemic
New indicator portal for universities
Strategically planning internationalisation
Happy 251st Birthday Alex! Why Alexander von Humboldt still matters today: Visit last year's anniversary website humboldt-heute.de/en/
Converting waste into a useful product: Humboldt Professor Largus Angenent and his research group are looking for new sources of carbon for the production of chemicals.
Artificial Intelligence helps to detect diseases: With the aid of artificial neural networks, Daniel Rückert has crucially improved the quality of medical imaging. Today he took up his position as a Humboldt Professor for AI at TU Munich.
"I need international exchange to do my work. And we all do!" Betty Rono, Climate Protection specialist from Kenya, supports international collaboration in research, in the #Covid19 crisis and in the future. #ResearchAcrossBorders
Final meeting of the current German Chancellor Fellows from Brazil, China, India, Russia, and the USA – this year in the virtual space. Thank you for the lively exchange of ideas and all the best for your future! And now cheers!
Why are humans often willing to act for one victim, but become numb as the number of victims increases? Using functional MRI, neuroscientist and #Humboldtian Zheng Ye and her team found out that the perspective-taking ability in our brains seems limited.
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Humboldt Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives
Apply now for the Humboldt Alumni Award! Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to five Humboldt Alumni Awards to promote innovative networking initiatives of alumni of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship and award programmes. Applications are accepted until 30 November 2020.
Publications in the Humboldt Network
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods: Survival of the Friendliest
Penguin Random House, 2020
Francisco Moreno-Fernández: Variedades de la lengua Española
Routledge, 2020
Uwe Schütte: Kraftwerk. Future Music from Germany
Penguin, 2020
Ingrid Piller: Intercultural Communication. A Critical Introduction
Cambridge University Press, 2017
Kathrin Zippel: Women in Global Science
Stanford University Press, 2017
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