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Towards resilient science: In his New Year's message, President Schlögl outlines the Foundation's plans for 2025.

The Indian civil engineer, Sai Kala Kondepudi, develops climate-friendly building materials made of natural resources that are supposed to replace conventional cement at some stage.

How we can have a positive influence on plant development? Alba Lloret Compañ about beeing a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.

Honoured researchers include four Humboldtians

Under the banner “Mobilizing diverse minds across the globe”, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recently conducted the first Humboldt Hackathon.

Humboldtian Rosa Coppola was working on the concept of artificiality in the works of the late experimental poet, academic and philosopher, Max Bense, when she discovered new approaches to Bense’s oeuvre and to her own research work.

The Humboldt Foundation invites you to its annual Advent Concert on 5 December. Join our livestream!

Women Forward – The 2024 Humboldt Mentoring Program brought together women from the Humboldt Network.

The Humboldt Foundation is making its research fellowships even more attractive.

Interview with the US-China expert and former German Chancellor Fellow Michael Laha.

Researchers and journalists came together at the World Health Summit 2024 in Berlin.

At the University of Regensburg’s Institute of Zoology, Humboldt Fellow Marion Cordonnier is investigating how humans influence ant diversity. Discover how the French ecologist combines her research with a surprise addition to the family and her wishes for other female researchers.

At ComLab#9 (19 to 22 September), 40 researchers and journalists from 28 countries around the world shared ideas.

Awards for the best networking initiatives.

The South African researcher, Daya Reddy, emphasised the importance of inclusion and cooperation in global science.

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.

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.