The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) decided to fund the new Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) with participation of the University of Konstanz for an initial period of four years.
Since 2 February 2020, the EUCLID study led by Konstanz psychologist Professor Britta Renner has been following the toughening coronavirus situation in Germany and around the world. Initial results and visualizations for Germany have now been published and will be updated regularly in the coming weeks.
University of Konstanz assists with coronavirus diagnostics: A team at the University of Konstanz, including Professor Christof Hauck, Dr Marcus Groettrup and Professor Thomas Mayer from the Department of Biology, is currently assisting with testing for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
Using virtual reality to uncover the secrets of animal behaviour: Talk by Konstanz scientist Hemal Naik at the all-online IEEE VR 2020 meeting with opportunities for journalists to take part
New Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz: Postdoctoral researcher Dr Nasiya Daminova specialises in European Human Rights Law. With funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she will address the specific challenge of offering suggestions for a coherent European judicial policy in the area of due process rights.
Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs from the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" at the University of Konstanz has just returned from the locust outbreak in Kenya where her team of researchers are doing something rarely done with natural plagues: basic scientific research. She describes what her team saw, what they are doing, and her hopes for how science can contribute to controlling outbreaks. Read the interview with her in our online magazine "campus.kn".
