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.
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
Fatih Ömer İlday | Physics & materials science
F. Ömer İlday has played a seminal role in developing ultrafast laser technology, transforming the field of non-linear laser-matter interactions in the last few years. He is now invited to join Ruhr University Bochum to explore new research fields in materials science and establish a world-class research centre. more
Ariel Dora Stern | Health economics
Germany has a highly efficient health service but is not in the international vanguard according to health system research. Ariel Dora Stern, one of the few researchers with a global reputation in the field, is now invited to Potsdam to drive this highly relevant and promising field of research, which has been underrepresented in Germany to date. more
Suvrit Sra | Mathematics and machine learning
When mathematics meets AI, and optimisation, machine learning: mathematician Suvrit Sra’s fundamental works on methods of optimisation have made a seminal and incomparable contribution to the theoretical understanding and continued development of learning systems. The Technical University of Munich wants to harness the Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence to expand its leading position in the field of artificial intelligence. more
Arnim Wiek | Sustainability research
Arnim Wiek is a world leader in sustainability science and has played a seminal role in shaping its development. At the University of Freiburg, Wiek is invited to establish a Center for Sustainable Food Economy that will create synergies between existing research activities both there and at other universities in the tri-national Upper Rhein region. He will also help to reinforce efforts to internationalise sustainability research in Germany. 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.
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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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Grimm Prize for Humboldtian Albert Gouaffo
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has selected the post-colonialism expert Albert Gouaffo to receive this year’s Grimm Prize.
Four new Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Germany’s most valuable research award goes to Aachen, Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen.
Did you know that we have a fellowship dedicated exclusively to Climate Change and resource conservation?
Structure in the tumour, structure in life.
How the Lynen Fellowship enabled the cancer researcher, Barbara Grünwald, to combine research and planning for the future.
CAPES – new application round
The Foundation’s successful collaboration with the Brazilian science funding organisation CAPES was extended.
The best in spirit! A team from the Humboldt Foundation took part in the Berlin company run.
Research and wanderlust
With Lynen to the land where the lemons blossom: How German scholar Elisa Ronzheimer benefited from a research stay in Italy.
Our 6th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium took place from 7 to 9 May in Berlin.
“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.
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Grimm Prize for Humboldtian Albert Gouaffo
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has selected the post-colonialism expert Albert Gouaffo to receive this year’s Grimm Prize.
Structure in the tumour, structure in life.
How the Lynen Fellowship enabled the cancer researcher, Barbara Grünwald, to combine research and planning for the future.
CAPES – new application round
The Foundation’s successful collaboration with the Brazilian science funding organisation CAPES was extended.
Research and wanderlust
With Lynen to the land where the lemons blossom: How German scholar Elisa Ronzheimer benefited from a research stay in Italy.
Konrad Adenauer Research Award 2025 goes to Canadian ecologist Marie-Josée Fortin
The research award is designed to strengthen academic and cultural relations between Canada and Germany.
“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.
Court case in Ecuador
How a Humboldtian helped the Indigenous Siekopái people to justice
The coincidence of a lifetime
On a Humboldt study tour around Germany in 1972, the Romanian neuroscientist Maria-Luisa Flonta and the philosopher Mircea Flonta got to know each other.
Reappraising research
Humboldt Foundation joins the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment.
Pressemitteilungen
Four new Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Germany’s most valuable research award goes to Aachen, Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen.
“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.
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.
Philipp Schwartz Forum in Berlin
Conference and network meeting on 3 and 4 April to discuss international scientific freedom and the protection of researchers
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.
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.
Strengthen exchange, defend democratic values
The Humboldt Foundation presents strategic position paper for the 21st legislative period of the German Bundestag.
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Did you know that we have a fellowship dedicated exclusively to Climate Change and resource conservation?
The best in spirit! A team from the Humboldt Foundation took part in the Berlin company run.
Our 6th UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium took place from 7 to 9 May in Berlin.
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!
Networking in beautiful Bamberg: Symposium for Humboldt Research Award Winners.
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!
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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
W. Daniel Wilson: Goethe und die Juden. Faszination und Feindschaft
C.H. Beck, 2024
Omri Boehm, Daniel Kehlmann: Der bestirnte Himmel über mir
Ullstein, 2024
Ulinka Rublack: Dürer im Zeitalter der Wunder
Klett-Cotta, 2024
Hartmut Rosa: When Monsters Roar and Angels Sing
Kohlhammer, 2023
