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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Ms Ombaka, what’s it like being a single parent and a researcher?

      My story begins four years ago. Three things happened in my life all at once: I was offered a new job at my university in Kenya, I was granted a fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation and I discovered I was pregnant. What to do?

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      Ms Ombaka, what’s it like being a single parent and a researcher?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Mr Mole, how do queer people fare in exile?

      Even as a child I used to ask myself how people in different societies lived together and why things in other countries were so different from what I was used to in the UK.

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      Mr Mole, how do queer people fare in exile?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      What can stop you, Mr Guck?

      Recently, it was the 30th anniversary of my accident. I have now been in a wheelchair for almost twice as long as I was able to walk.

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      What can stop you, Mr Guck?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      In the USA, nobody asks where I come from

      Dr Serge Alain Fobofou Tanemossu earned his doctorate in chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

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      In the USA, nobody asks where I come from
    • News

      Silent night

      The Corona pandemic forces us all to keep our distance and robs us of things that define what we are: human closeness and social interaction. German Chancellor Fellow Diana Raiselis is working on sustainable concepts for reviving nighttime culture.

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    • Focus areas in 2021

      The Corona pandemic has changed the world. With its projects and focus areas in 2021, the Foundation want to better exploit its potential and create the preconditions for successful work in the future.

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      Focus areas in 2021
    • Press Release

      First Humboldt scouts in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme selected

      A total of 33 scientists and scholars have been chosen in the first selection round by an interdisciplinary committee of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. These “Humboldt scouts” are to recruit talented researchers from throughout the world for a Humboldt Fellowship.

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