Five new Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected

An Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, which comes with up to €5 million in funding, offers not only optimal financial conditions but also maximum flexibility for conducting leading-edge research in Germany. The recently selected award winners are to use Germany’s most valuable international research award to work for an extended period at a German research institute. 

The new award winners will now embark on appointment negotiations with the German universities that nominated them. They will receive their awards in 2025 following the successful conclusion of their negotiations with the respective university: the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kiel University, the University of Cologne, University of Münster and University of Tübingen.

The following individuals were selected to receive a Humboldt Professorship:

• The chemist Christopher Barner-Kowollik will go to KIT. He currently is a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. 
• Frank Biermann specialises in sustainability governance research and was successfully nominated by the University of Münster. At present, he works at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
• The biophysicist​​​​​​​ Sebastian Deindl will be conducting research at the University of Tübingen; he is currently a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.
• Cassandra Extavour, professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Harvard University, USA, will be switching to Kiel University as a Humboldt Professor.
• Andreas Winter will hold a Humboldt Professorship for quantum communication at the University of Cologne. He has been working at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, to date.

During its meeting in October, the Selection Committee took decisions on 19 nominations (16 men, two women and one diverse person). During the first selection round in April of this year, five researchers (three women and two men) were also selected to receive a Humboldt Professorship in 2025. 
Alexander von Humboldt Professorships are awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and financed by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The award ceremony will be held in Berlin in early May 2025.

Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend time conducting research in Germany. The Foundation maintains an interdisciplinary network of well over 30,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries around the world – including 61 Nobel Prize winners.