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 57 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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Shaping the future with solidarity and positive visions
The fifth Communication Lab, a project run by the Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes, took place on 13 to 14 and 20 to 21 May.
The chemist Robert Schlögl to be new president of the Humboldt Foundation
Robert Schlögl, Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, will take office on 1 January 2023.
We asked the journalists and the scientists of the #ResearchComLab why they want to participate in ComLab #5: "The New Global – Cooperation for the Future". Listen in on the voices of Humboldtian and historian Kelly Whitmer and journalist Netta Ahituv.
Humboldt Foundation calls for release of Iranian academic
Iran announces impending execution of Ahmadreza Djalali. Humboldt Foundation joins Scholars at Risk and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) in calling for the academic's release.
International research stars receive awards in Berlin
Twenty-one top researchers were the focus of an award ceremony held on Thursday evening in Berlin, where they were presented Germany’s most valuable research award, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.
"We see an exceptional solidarity with scholars and students at risk across academia in Germany and elsewhere." Humboldt Foundation's Secretary General EnnoAufderheide at the "Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum".
In the face of war: International conference to discuss issues pertaining to scientific freedom
Experts and researchers who have fled their country will gather at the Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum being held on 10 and 11 May in Berlin and online.
Robots can't climb trees like squirrels. Or can they? Having your own idea for a robot, inspired by nature? Join the Natural Robotics Contest by Fabian Franke and Robert Siddall. The best idea will be fabricated into a real prototype. Go!
Humboldt Professorships to be awarded on 12 May
Germany’s best-endowed international research awards will be presented in person in 2022 once more. The event will be broadcast live.
Aktuelles
Shaping the future with solidarity and positive visions
The fifth Communication Lab, a project run by the Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes, took place on 13 to 14 and 20 to 21 May.
Humboldt Foundation calls for release of Iranian academic
Iran announces impending execution of Ahmadreza Djalali. Humboldt Foundation joins Scholars at Risk and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) in calling for the academic's release.
Scouting Programme: Recruiting expertise on a targeted basis
Regional prospects for global Islamic studies: As a scout for the Humboldt Foundation, Johanna Pink, professor for Islamic Studies, has recruited linguistic and regional expertise on a targeted basis for her research team.
“It takes the entire network”
An interview with Andrea Löther who led a study commissioned by the Humboldt Foundation to analyse the potential and needs of female scholars and scientists around the world.
Virtual Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium: Networks for a post-Covid era
Top researchers from the African network meet at the Humboldt Foundation’s Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium. Here, we present four outstanding individuals and their work.
Research stays abroad for researchers from Germany
Flexible sponsorships, particularly during an ongoing pandemic, benefit researchers from Germany and their hosts abroad.
Atenção Pesquisadores – Fellowships for researchers from Brazil
The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme will once again be granting fellowships for researchers from Brazil with above-average qualifications.
“The poor deserve the best”
Interview with sociologists Jessé Souza and Boike Rehbein about the access to education, people’s self-esteem and creating local opportunities.
Communication Lab#4
Winners of the fourth round honoured
Pressemitteilungen
The chemist Robert Schlögl to be new president of the Humboldt Foundation
Robert Schlögl, Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, will take office on 1 January 2023.
International research stars receive awards in Berlin
Twenty-one top researchers were the focus of an award ceremony held on Thursday evening in Berlin, where they were presented Germany’s most valuable research award, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship.
In the face of war: International conference to discuss issues pertaining to scientific freedom
Experts and researchers who have fled their country will gather at the Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum being held on 10 and 11 May in Berlin and online.
Humboldt Professorships to be awarded on 12 May
Germany’s best-endowed international research awards will be presented in person in 2022 once more. The event will be broadcast live.
The Alliance of German Science Organisations
on the Initiative of the European Commission: Reforming Research Assessment
126 international researchers from 38 countries in Rostock
Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will meet at the University of Rostock from 27 to 29 April.
A think tank for our times: Humboldt Residency Programme takes up its work
With the virtual launch of the Humboldt Residency Programme on 6 April, the Humboldt Foundation sets an example for international solidarity.
Substantial willingness to help researchers who have fled Ukraine
Providing support not possible without additional funds
Kick-off for the Humboldt Residency Programme
With its new programme, the Humboldt Foundation connects experts from academia, media and civil society.
We asked the journalists and the scientists of the #ResearchComLab why they want to participate in ComLab #5: "The New Global – Cooperation for the Future". Listen in on the voices of Humboldtian and historian Kelly Whitmer and journalist Netta Ahituv.
"We see an exceptional solidarity with scholars and students at risk across academia in Germany and elsewhere." Humboldt Foundation's Secretary General EnnoAufderheide at the "Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum".
Robots can't climb trees like squirrels. Or can they? Having your own idea for a robot, inspired by nature? Join the Natural Robotics Contest by Fabian Franke and Robert Siddall. The best idea will be fabricated into a real prototype. Go!
#Humboldtian Abdelhadi Soudi and Kristof van Laerhoven developed AfricaSign – an online platform for the documentation of African sign languages. A first success: the website and the signing avatars are now helping Moroccan deaf young people and educators!
Congratulations! Congolese researcher Francine Ntoumi received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The #Humboldtian is known as a pioneer of infection research in #Africa. #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Will you keep on dancing, when the time of zoom meetings is over, dear Humboldtians?
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Publications in the Humboldt Network
Rüdiger Görner: Romantik. Ein europäisches Ereignis
Reclam, 2021
Juliane Burghardt: Arbeitsplatz Wissenschaft
Springer, 2021
Alexander C.T. Geppert et. al (Ed.): Militarizing Outer Space
palcrave macmillan, 2021
Rosi Braidotti: Posthuman Feminism
Polity, 2021
Ulinka Rublack: Die Geburt der Mode - Eine Kulturgeschichte der Renaissance
Klett-Cotta, 2022
