Information on peer reviews

Peer reviews for Humboldt Research Professorships

Humboldt Research Professorships are awarded to top-tier researchers from abroad who can be expected to achieve further scientific breakthroughs in the future based on their highly successful, innovative and audacious previous research.  

Award winners are expected to initiate long-term collaborations with specialist colleagues in Germany, set up and manage an international working group in Germany and develop additional promising and creative research formats to optimally suit their research interests and methodologies. 

Humboldt Research Professors will be permitted to simultaneously continue conducting their own professorships or working groups in their countries of origin during the sponsorship. The funding regulations also permit them to relocate fully to Germany; long-term prospects for remaining in the country can be negotiated locally on an individual basis. 

The main selection criteria include researchers’ previous outstanding academic achievements and their potential to accomplish future pioneering breakthroughs with the proposed research. Plans for integrating and embedding nominees within the receiving institution and an appropriate scope of intended stays in Germany to implement the planned research project are also considered important criteria for success in the selection procedure. 

In order to identify the best research personalities for this programme initiative, the Humboldt Foundation’s Selection Committee needs your independent statement. 

As an independent peer reviewer, you will be given access to our peer review portal. Here you will find all the documents to be reviewed, an online form for creating your review, as well as information on the programme and other guidance. 

Further information

Your review will, of course, be treated as strictly confidential. The Humboldt Foundation will only make it accessible to those involved in the selection procedure. We ask in return that you maintain confidentiality towards those directly involved as well as third parties.

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