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The Humboldt alumnae and archaeologists Leila Papoli-Yazdi and Maryam Dezhamkhooy are digging deep into their country’s past. In the following interview, the two researchers explain how society in pre-modern Iran with its tolerant notions of gender norms and sexuality changed and why gender archaeology can enrich the present.
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The German Research Chairs programme for funding mathematical research in Africa was launched ten years ago at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal. A call for applications for a second chair to be established there has now been announced.
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Interview with Markus Kissler-Patig, Head of Science and Operations at the European Space Agency, about the new golden age of space exploration and the search for life in our solar system and beyond.
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Germany has a highly efficient health service but is not in the international vanguard according to health system research. Ariel Dora Stern, one of the few researchers with a global reputation in the field, is now invited to Potsdam to drive this highly relevant and promising field of research, which has been underrepresented in Germany to date.
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Arnim Wiek is a world leader in sustainability science and has played a seminal role in shaping its development. At the University of Freiburg, Wiek is invited to establish a Center for Sustainable Food Economy that will create synergies between existing research activities both there and at other universities in the tri-national Upper Rhein region. He will also help to reinforce efforts to internationalise sustainability research in Germany.
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As Humboldt Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel is joining the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where he will reinforce the new Center for Photonic Quantum Technologies in the Berlin-Adlershof Science and Technology Park.
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Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to meet at the University of Stuttgart from 22 to 24 November
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Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will meet at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg from 25 to 27 February.
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The benefit of knowledge exchange: Alexander von Humboldt Professor Peter Dayan on how he wants to link machine learning with psychiatry resesarch.
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