Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Margaret E. Roberts’ research field could not be more pertinent. With the help of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the political scientist and data researcher investigates the Internet censorship practices of authoritarian states. Furnished with a Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, she is now examining the role of social media platforms.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Don’t always grab your phone when you’re waiting for a bus. Instead, just sit there and let your thoughts run free. This kind of activity – or inactivity – is completely underrated nowadays, says psychologist Kou Murayama.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Whether as a discoverer, Romantic, Atlanticist, climate prophet or working class hero: Nicolaas A. Rupke, has investigated how the various images of Humboldt have come about.
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When the forensic linguist and Georg Forster Fellow Endurence Midinette Dissake talks about her research, she talks about justice. “It is my greatest motivation and the reason why I do research.” Her sense of justice and her fascination with language regularly take the Cameroonian researcher into courts in her country. She is currently part of the team headed by her host, Professor Andrew Stewart, at the University of Bayreuth’s Academy of Advanced African Studies.
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In the Amniota Lab at the Naturkundemuseum Berlin the Spanish palaeontologist and Humboldt Fellow Iris Menéndez González studies the morpho-ecological evolution of squirrels. She also explores what it means when there is a lack of diversity through the initiative Mujeres con los pies en la Tierra (Women with their feet on the ground) that campaigns for equal opportunities in science.
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To be able to apply for a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, interested applicants must provide references as part of their application.
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2016 Sven Bernecker In Cologne, the Humboldt Professor Sven Bernecker is due to found and head a Centre for Contemporary Epistemology and Kantian Tradition. Nomina
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