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.
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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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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?
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Week 3 of the Humboldt Residency Programme: In our Residency Diary, diversity expert Christa Rautenbach shares her thoughts on law and Social Cohesion. Highlights: visits to the Center for Civil Society Research at WZB Berlin and DHM Berlin.
New research award in the STEM field
Humboldt Foundation and Carl Zeiss Foundation launch cooperation with the Carl Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award which comes with €100,000.
Week 2 of the #HumboldtResidencyProgramme: Alexander Stagnell tells us how the “art of persuasion” can help us understand the challenges of Social Cohesion. Check out our weekly Residency Diary!
Humboldt Foundation to implement EU programme for at-risk researchers from Ukraine
EU allocating €25 million for fellowships
Live from Stüben: Australian journalist Amie Liebowitz based in London and Humboldtian Elisabeth Gruber from Austria on a field trip for their Comlab project. Hard at work and connecting with the locals!
Budget cuts: Humboldt Foundation forced to discontinue fellowships and programmes
One third fewer fellowships this year and next.
2022 Humboldt Alumni Awards presented
Applications for next year's Humboldt Alumni Awards are being accepted through 30 November 2022.
Prospective leaders in Berlin: Today, the current Chancellor Fellows met Vito Cecere at the Federal Foreign Office. #Humboldtian
Learn more about #Humboldtian Dr Nevine Zakaria and her work in Würzburg! And discover the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral and experienced researchers!
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2022 Humboldt Alumni Awards presented
Applications for next year's Humboldt Alumni Awards are being accepted through 30 November 2022.
Inclusive and sustainable: together for the AI of tomorrow
On 21 June, leading AI researchers and civil society actors met at the Humboldt Academia in Society Summit in Berlin
The 2022 Philipp Franz von Siebold Award winner
The Japanese biomedical engineering expert Keisuke Goda to receive the 2022 Philipp Franz von Siebold Award.
Canadian Chemist to receive 2022 Konrad Adenauer Research Award
Further strengthening of scientific relations between Germany and Canada additionally reinforced by Memorandum of Understanding
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.
A Boost for Germany as a Science Base
More than 100 Humboldt Professors are now working at German universities – four of them report on their experiences.
A Boost for Germany as a Science Base
More than 100 Humboldt Professors are now working at German universities and research institutions – four of them report on their experiences
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.
Pressemitteilungen
New research award in the STEM field
Humboldt Foundation and Carl Zeiss Foundation launch cooperation with the Carl Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award which comes with €100,000.
Humboldt Foundation to implement EU programme for at-risk researchers from Ukraine
EU allocating €25 million for fellowships
Budget cuts: Humboldt Foundation forced to discontinue fellowships and programmes
One third fewer fellowships this year and next.
“Putin’s war will not paralyse us”: Federal President Steinmeier at the Humboldt Foundation’s Annual Meeting
More than 600 international researchers to gather in Berlin
Humboldt Foundation’s Annual Meeting and reception with Federal President Steinmeier
More than 600 international researchers to gather in Berlin on 22 and 23 June – Livestream of the opening ceremony with Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier
Facing the AI Revolution: Humboldt Academia in Society Summit
At the Humboldt Academia in Society Summit on 21 June in Berlin, eminent AI researchers and civil society actors will discuss the ethical, social and legal challenges associated with these developments.
New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected
Ten top international researchers – including one Nobel laureate – to receive Germany’s most valuable research award
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.
Week 3 of the Humboldt Residency Programme: In our Residency Diary, diversity expert Christa Rautenbach shares her thoughts on law and Social Cohesion. Highlights: visits to the Center for Civil Society Research at WZB Berlin and DHM Berlin.
Week 2 of the #HumboldtResidencyProgramme: Alexander Stagnell tells us how the “art of persuasion” can help us understand the challenges of Social Cohesion. Check out our weekly Residency Diary!
Live from Stüben: Australian journalist Amie Liebowitz based in London and Humboldtian Elisabeth Gruber from Austria on a field trip for their Comlab project. Hard at work and connecting with the locals!
Prospective leaders in Berlin: Today, the current Chancellor Fellows met Vito Cecere at the Federal Foreign Office. #Humboldtian
Learn more about #Humboldtian Dr Nevine Zakaria and her work in Würzburg! And discover the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral and experienced researchers!
After two virtual annual meetings, this year more than 600 scientists from all over the world meet and exchange ideas (and play) in person in Berlin! #AvHTogether
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Georg Forster Research Award
The award, valued at €60,000, is granted to internationally recognised researchers from developing and transition countries. Nominations must be submitted by researchers in Germany.
Publications in the Humboldt Network
Andrea Gremels: Die Weltkünste des Surrealismus
Wallstein, 2022
John Staddon: Science in an Age of Unreason
Regnery, 2022
Tabea Bork-Hüffer (Hg.): Handbuch Digitale Geographien
utb, 2021
Priska Daphi: Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Springer, 2020
Jeffrey F. Hamburger: The Birth of the Author
Brepols, 2021
