As an international networking organisation connecting outstanding researchers and leaders in all science-related fields around the world, the Humboldt Foundation feels under a special obligation to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We also consider ourselves well-positioned to make a significant contribution to sustainable global development.
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation congratulates the newly-selected Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners! The ten researchers honoured by the German Research Foundation (DFG) include the Humboldtians Hannes Leitgeb, Bettina Valeska Lotsch, Wolfram Pernice and Daniel Rückert.
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Being faster and more reliable than humans, artificial intelligence is usually used to evaluate huge volumes of data and identify patterns in them. But what happens when there isn’t enough data, and you have to work with uncertainties? In this case, thanks to millions of years of evolution, nature easily has the upper hand.
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Curiosity is what drives him – “and the fascination with all the things we still don’t know about biology”. His goal: a bridge between medicine and biosciences.
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a legally responsible foundation under private law and promotes excellent research worldwide. The Foundation chiefly finances its expenditure on the basis of grants from the Federal Government and the European Union. However, the Foundation’s funding is also secured by private endowments. Mr. Winfried Pohl's endowment of €500,000 will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl, an expert in the field of thermal engineering, tells us what motivated him to support the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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The mathematician, statistician and computer scientist Sayan Mukherjee has produced crucial work in the still young field of topological data analysis through which imaging methods can be improved and predictions made about diseases. In Leipzig, Mukherjee’s expertise in the evaluation of biological data is set to open up new avenues in precision medicine.
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Nominating University: Technische Universität München together with the Helmholtz Zentrum München Medicine Matthias Tschöp's work focuses both on research into molecular transduction mechanisms that play [...] USA in 2003, where he has been a professor at the Metabolic Disease Institute of the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, and has held a chair since 2010. He has also won numerous
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The brothers Professor Dr Karl Sebastian Lang and Professor Dr Philipp Lang were both granted the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award.
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Further strengthening of scientific relations between Germany and Canada additionally reinforced by Memorandum of Understanding
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