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Fellows and alumni of the German Chancellor Fellowship will discuss building a common future, change of perspective, and (un)harnessing the internet

Last change: 10/10/2023

Virtual discussion, organised by Freie Universität Berlin and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Last change: 05/11/2021

At the Humboldt Colloquium in Rome, some 300 researchers from five countries will discuss the opportunities offered by and challenges involved in science.

Last change: 25/10/2023

When the ecologist, Marion Cordonnier, is doing fieldwork, it is sometimes deathly quiet – which is when the Humboldt Fellow and visiting researcher at the University of Regensburg’s Institute of Zoology is busy in cemeteries of small Bavarian towns. Here she collects ants of the Temnothorax species that nest in walls or between the gravestones. “These ants really live in crevices in rock but here they utilise sometimes an artificial environment where they find the same conditions as in their natural habitat,” says Marion Cordonnier. She belongs to the research group around the entomologist, Professor Jürgen Heinze, and uses various methods to study how changed habitats affect the gene flow, the microbiome or the behaviour of ant species.

Last change: 01/10/2024

Last change: 14/04/2021