The German magazine „Forschung & Lehre“ has recently published two articles on the situation and importance of Institutes for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Germany - and the Zukunftskolleg in particular.
We congratulate Bernard Lepetit (former Postdoctoral Fellow / Dept. of Biology) who has started as a Heisenberg professor (with tenure track) on 1 October 2023 at the Institute of Biology of the University of Rostock where he is the chair of the new group "Molecular Stress Physiology".
From 10-12 October 2023, the European Institutes of Advanced Study met in Konstanz for their annual meeting of Netias (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study) to foster cooperation between institutions.
Elisa Deiss-Helbig is a new Research Fellow from the 17th call for applications for fellowships. She has started her fellowship on 1 October and is affiliated with the Department of Politics and Public Administration.
We congratulate Alumna Borbála Zsuzsanna Török from the Department of History and Sociology who currently holds the chair of Eastern European History at the University of Göttingen.
We congratulate Violeta Ivanova Rohling (Postdoctoral Fellow / Physics) who has received a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for her project „Deep learning methods with symmetry priors for problems in quantum computing“.
Congratulations to Abena Yalley (Postdoctoral Fellow / Literature & Politics and Public Administration): She has received a grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to implement the project "Body Politics: Gender, Healthcare and Obstetric Violence in Nigeria".
In the Assembly of Members on 4 July, the fellows reelected Noelia Martinez Doallo (Postdoctoral Fellow / Dept. of Law), and elected Svetlana Boycheva Woltering (Research Fellow / Dept. of Biology) as well as Philipp di Dio (Research Fellow / Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics) to serve as new members in the Executive Committee.
We cordially welcome the following ZUKonnect and Herz Fellows who joined the Zukunftskolleg on 1 July 2023 virtually for one year. They will be on-campus for 3 to 4 months from autumn 2023:
We congratulate Gisela Kopp (Research Fellow / Biology) – also member of the Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at the University of Konstanz - who was elected as the new chair of Die Junge Akademie.
We congratulate Jeff Kochan (Associated Fellow / Philosophy) who has been appointed a Visiting Research Fellow by the University of Western Australia from August to September 2023.
Tobias Sutter is one of our new Research Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of Computer and Information Science.
On 9 May, the University of Konstanz, as a member of three European University Networks – ERUA, Yerun, EUniWell -, has celebrated Europe Day together with its international partners. Highlight of the event was a live online-session with the Ukrainian president Wolodymyr Selenskyj as very special guest.
We congratulate Angelo di Bernardo who has started a tenured Associate Professorship in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Salerno, Italy, on 1 May 2023.
Today, Die Junge Akademie’s childrens book “Young Scientists” has been published by Hanser-Verlag. In the publication, biologist Gisela Kopp - member of the Zukunftskolleg, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) and Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) at the University of Konstanz - reveals how she researches animals even without meeting them in person.
We welcome our new Senior Fellow Philip Welch at the Zukunftskolleg. He was invited by Research Fellow Carolin Antos-Kuby and will stay in Konstanz until the end of June.
We congratulate Yeliena Kovalska (Visiting Fellow / History and Sociology), who has been awarded a MSCA4 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Ukraine Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In the latest Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) call - deadline for applications was 15 October 2022 -, 12 applications were submitted, out of which the following four innovative, young ideas have now been selected:
Daniel Skibra is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 17th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in March and is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy.
We congratulate María Cruz Berrocal (Associated Fellow / History and Sociology) who has accepted a permanent research position at the Incipit (Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio) of the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Research Fellow Gisela Kopp (Dept. of Biology / Affiliate member of the CASCB), has received a guest professorship in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
For the third time, the Hector Fellow Academy has presented the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award. At the end of January, the jury of experts selected three young scientists whose research careers the Hector Fellow Academy now supports. Among them is Research Fellow Anna Stöckl from the Department of Biology.
We congratulate Valeria Vegh Weis (Research Fellow / Law) who was accepted as a member of the working group "Human Rights and International Relations" coordinated by Prof. Dr. Achilles Skordas from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law.
We congratulate Raghavendra Gadagkar - Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Zukunftskolleg - who has been elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.