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Cameroon's only forensic linguist is fighting for easy language in courts and interpreters in trials, wants to change the legal system and spark the enthusiasm of more researchers in her field.

Awards for the best networking initiatives.

Palaeontology fellow in Berlin: Iris Menéndez Gonzálezs uncovers fossils and exposes unconscious stereotypes.

Eliana Masha is investigating what is going on inside the sun. The nuclear astrophysicist wants to determine the origins of the universe and show that anyone can become a researcher.

The distinguished astrophysicist Naoki Yoshida receives the 2024 Philipp Franz von Siebold Award.

With her research in Oldenburg, neuroscientist and Humboldtian Hanin Karawani Khoury wants to make her voice heard - for older people worldwide and for more diversity in science.

The Georg Forster Fellow and taxonomist, Jeanne Agrippine Yetchom Fondjo, is conducting research on grasshoppers and biodiversity at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe. She hopes her work will be a source of inspiration and attract more women to science.

Through her work, the Venezuelan lawyer and professor for international private law María Julia Ochoa Jiménez wants to help de-colonise legal thought and reinforce the rights of Indigenous communities.

Mark Jellinek receives this year's Konrad Adenauer Research Award.

For the first time, 60 hosts met for a Scout network meeting in Bonn.

In the context of the selection procedure for the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2023/2024, allegations have been made against the Foundation.

On 17 and 18 April, more than 160 Ukrainian researchers met in Berlin.

Three hundred people got together at the Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum.

Congratulations on the anniversary at the Siyakhula Festival in South Africa, amongst others, from Sabine Döring, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Humboldt Foundation is calling for more humanity and understanding

From February 29 to March 2, more than 100 alumni discussed visions for a sustainable future with partners from politics and science from around the world.

Humboldt Professor Till Bärnighausen on the fight against AIDS

Which female researcher has seminally shaped your career?

In the third selection round of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme, 19 new scouts were selected for the Humboldt Network, including eight female scientists.

Filmmaker and author Marc Sagnol on the international Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In the New Year's message, the President sends his greetings and addresses the Foundation's strategy for 2024 in view of the ongoing global challenges.

Humboldt Foundation and Brazilian research funding organisation CAPES celebrate ten years of German-Brazilian academic cooperation.

The Humboldtian Eike Kiltz is one of the ten researchers being honoured by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

The Argentinian historian Walter Ludovico Koppmann is working on the Jewish working class in Buenos Aires.

On the search for new talent, Henriette Herz Scout Sabine Panzram surveys the world.

Voices from the Israeli network

Maria Rita Ortega Vega is developing a sensor that detects kidney disease at an early stage.