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      Protests at Boğaziçi University

      In early January, Turkey’s President Erdoğan appointed a new rector at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Since then, the campus has seen protests, violence and arrests. Comments on this from the Humboldt Network

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      Protests in Iran: Using art to fight the system

      Iran is currently experiencing one of the largest waves of protests in decades. The Humboldt Foundation strongly condemns the violence by Iranian security forces, which particularly affects peaceful demonstrators at universities. We spoke with the Iranian Humboldtian Raika Khorshidian about different forms of protest, communication channels and the cultural scene’s influence in Iran.

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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Questioning certainties

      In the global knowledge-production economy, resources and access are unfairly distributed. How this asymmetry came about, where there are still problems and where the conditions are beginning to change.

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    • Radu Timofte

      Whether in smartphones, traffic detectors or medical images – in many aspects of our everyday lives, we take high-quality images for granted, in some situations they have become vital. In Würzburg, Radu Timofte’s work on image enhancement will forge links between different research areas.

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    • Ran Hirschl

      Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2017 Ran Hirschl Ran Hirschl will help to develop the Göttingen campus into a centre for research on the interaction between comparative law, constitutional design

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    • Raul Fidel Tempone

      Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2018 Raul Fidel Tempone As an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University, Raul Tempone is expected to reinforce the fields of control theory, numer

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      Raul Fidel Tempone
    • News

      Reaching for the stars

      Working in the Felsenkeller underground lab at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Humboldt Fellow Eliana Masha is investigating what is going on inside the sun. The nuclear astrophysicist from Albania wants to determine the origins of the universe and show that anyone can become a researcher.

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      Reappraising research

      Humboldt Foundation joins the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment that campaigns for reform of the assessment and evaluation of academic performance worldwide.

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