Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Uzbekistan wants to establish renewable energies. But the country is short on expertise. Materials researcher Mirabbos Hojamberdiev has the knowledge required: he develops promising solar technologies which could become a model for other places, too.
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Anneke van Heteren has a penchant for skeletons. She studies bones to investigate the lifestyle of extinct mammals. Cave bears, which lived more than 25,000 years ago, are the palaeontologist’s special field. She thinks the bears were herbivorous.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Thanks to modern dialogue systems like Alexa and Siri, computers have become our everyday helpers: on voice command they deliver information, operate stereo equipment, switch the lights on and even tell jokes. But they do it without a trace of emotion – a normal conversation is impossible. Milica Gašić from Serbia wants to change that.
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Marja Timmermans For the Tübingen University, a Humboldt Professorship for Marja Timmermans at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP) would target brid
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Karen Radner Karen Radner's mission as an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at LMU Munich will be to shift the focus of classical and ancient studies more towa
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Sharon Jeanette Macdonald Under Sharon Macdonald’s leadership, Humboldt-Universität, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundat
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015 Harald Andrés Helfgott As an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Göttingen, Harald Helfgott will reinforce the research focus on algebraic g
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