Global Minds Initiative Germany: Humboldt Foundation sponsorship opportunities
The new programme enables the Humboldt Foundation to offer additional fellowships in the context of existing sponsorship programmes.
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The new programme enables the Humboldt Foundation to offer additional fellowships in the context of existing sponsorship programmes.
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Press Release
9/2026
Humboldt Foundation President Robert Schlögl and Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär confer Germany’s most valuable international research awards.
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This year’s prize, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), goes to the Polish literary scholar, Jadwiga Kita-Huber.
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The research conducted by the chemist and materials scientist Christopher Barner-Kowollik facilitates the development of high-precision materials and surfaces for specific applications in medicine, nanotechnology and materials development. He is invited to continue his work on new materials and polymer-based systems at KIT.
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Sebastian Deindl is a biophysicist whose research results are of exceptional importance both to basic research and to medicine. By appointing him to a Humboldt Professorship, the University of Tübingen wants to continue driving its leading international position in structural biology.
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The economist Michael Weber is a world-leading authority on household finance and inflation. The ESMT Berlin (European School of Management and Technology) is seeking to harness Weber’s expertise to develop the “European Expectations Center.”
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2026 Reinhard Maurer Reinhard Maurer is a pioneer in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to theoretical chemistry. The methods
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The biochemist Simon Elsässer is a world leader in the technological and methodological development of epigenetics and synthetic biology. At the University of Freiburg, he wants to to reinforce and expand the research focus on the “Signals of Life.”
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Michael Moehler is a globally recognized analytic philosopher. He is a leading authority in social contract theory and the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). At Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, he is to play a key role in boosting the university's expertise in PPE and head a new university-wide research institute in this rapidly growing field of research.
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Sahika Inal is a world leader in organic bioelectronics. With her support, Dresden University of Technology and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden are seeking global visibility in the field of the next generation of bioelectronic systems and intelligent health technologies.
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