Anan Alsheikh Haidar fled Syria in 2013. Her work as a professor of criminal law at the University of Damascus had put her name on the blacklist of Bashar al-Assad's government. With a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, she came to the University of Cologne.
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Academic freedom must be protected! Robert Quinn, Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network, has written an essay on the importance of academic freedom to mark the fifth anniversary of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative in 2021.
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The veterinarian Mahmod Muhsen was able to continue his research at the University of Leipzig. Because of the war, he had not been able to return to Syria.
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In Yemen, Ghanya Al-Nageb experienced how scientists from her faculty disappeared. The nutrition scientist was able to continue her career at the University of Würzburg. Meanwhile, she researches and teaches in Italy.
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Germany’s most valuable research award to go to Dresden, Düsseldorf, Heidelberg and Tübingen.
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She’s a chemist, he’s a philosopher. Both teach and conduct research at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Married couple Martina Havenith-Newen and Albert Newen each have extremely impressive career histories in their own fields and have brought up two daughters. And they did so at a time when dual career was an unknown quantity in Germany. They benefited from the opportunities on offer in the Humboldt Network, a network whose diversity the two hosts are now reinforcing by working as scouts in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme.
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