Focus Coming to Change: Humboldt Professors Great flexibility, exemplary freedom of research and, last but not least, a vast amount of money: since 2008, the…
Focus We Need Fearless Universities A conversation with Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation, on recruiting research luminaries…
Focus Humboldt Professor Burkhard Rost Curiosity is what drives him – “and the fascination with all the things we still don’t know about biology”. His goal: a…
Focus Humboldt Professor Elisabeth Décultot If you want to trace the history of knowledge transfer in the aesthetics of the 18th century, you need old books – and…
Focus Humboldt Professor Sharon Macdonald “Museums are extremely important for our societies because that is where people decide which things will play a role in…
Focus Humboldt Professor Karen Radner “I love the feeling of discovering something nobody has ever discovered before,” says Karen Radner, describing what…
Focus Humboldt Professor Oliver Brock To build robots that can deal with everyday tasks and situations just as well and as efficiently as people can – that is…
Humboldtians in Private My (Non-)Selfie with the German President As a Humboldt Research Fellow Qiang Guo visited the Foundation’s Annual Meeting in Berlin and Schloss Bellevue. He came…
Brief Enquiries How Do You Make Online Maps More Social, Ms Leal-Taixé? In her “Social Maps” project the computer scientist Laura Leal-Taixé wants to integrate social information into digital…
Brief Enquiries Is There a Connection Between Prejudice Against Black People and Police Violence? It seems likely that racism could be the reason for police violence but, so far, no-one has published any scientific…
Brief Enquiries Can Literature Connect Worlds, Ms Fathy? Goethe, Schiller, Fontane and then what? The Egyptian Germanist Hebatallah Fathy wants to enrich German teaching in…
Brief Enquiries What Is It About Polygamy, Mr Junker? In his book “Die verborgene Natur der Liebe” (The Hidden Nature of Love), the historian of biology Thomas Junker reveals…
Brief Enquiries Can Social Media Enhance the Quality of Research, Ms Shema? The information scientist Hadas Shema argues for recognising online commentaries as a component of quality assurance.
Close up on Research Energised Wilfred Fritz managed to carve his path through racial barriers and became one of the first non-whites to study at the…
Focus on Germany Forget the grammar you learn at school Today’s broken rules are often tomorrow’s norms. The Hungarian linguist Vilmos Ágel has developed a completely new…
News The New President: Hans-Christian Pape The Humboldt Foundation has a new President: in January, the neurophysiologist Hans-Christian Pape took over the helm of…
News Humboldtian Honoured Joachim Frank is the 55th researcher in the Humboldt Network to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
The Faces of the Foundation The Science Behind It Who actually does what at Humboldt headquarters? These are the colleagues at the Humboldt Foundation, their lives at…
