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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: 08/10/2025

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

With the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Elisa Ronzheimer was able to deepen her research at the University of Bergamo. The stay not only enabled her to engage in intensive academic exchange but also inspired new approaches for her postdoctoral project.

Last change: 15/05/2025

Last change: 14/04/2021

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. She sees the Humboldt Fellowship as a unique opportunity.

Last change: 22/01/2025

Flexible sponsorships, particularly during an ongoing pandemic, benefit researchers from Germany and their hosts abroad.

Last change: 15/03/2022

Through her research at the Hearing4all cluster of excellence in Oldenburg, the neuroscientist and Humboldt Fellow Hanin Karawani Khoury wants to make voices heard – amongst older people worldwide and for diversity in science.

Last change: 13/06/2024