Thanks to Hendrik Rommeswinkel from our partner institute WIAS in Tokyo who spent a Research Visit at the Zukunftskolleg from November 2023 until January 2024.
We congratulate Cristina Ruiz Agudo who will substitute for Helmut Cölfen in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Konstanz for one year, starting on 1 April 2024.
We congratulate Ariane Bertogg (Postdoctoral Fellow / History and Sociology) who has accepted a lecturer position in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz, starting on 1 June 2024.
The Zukunftskolleg has received 12 applications within the first call for applications for the new ZENiT Fellowship Programme (application deadline: 15 December 2023). ZENiT stands for Zukunftskolleg Exchange Network: interdisciplinary Talent.
In the Assembly of Members on 5 December 2023, the fellows elected Anamaria Bentea (Research Fellow / Dept. of Linguistics), to serve as new members in the Executive Committee from January 2024, and James Wilson (Postdoctoral Fellow / Dept. of History and Sociology) as new EC member from May 2024.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the hot topics in German universities. But what about the priorities in other countries? What role do the SDGs play abroad? What student initiatives are influential elsewhere?
The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Sidney Carls-Diamante from the Department of Philosophy to a 6-year grant as a Junior Researcher at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) on the project "Agency, Mentality, and Mind-Body Interaction in Suicidality in Bipolar Disorder"
The Zukunftskolleg is pleased to announce a new call for Zukunftskolleg Konnect (ZUKOnnect) Fellowships. The ZUKOnnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America related to one of the thirteen departments of the University of Konstanz. Application deadline is 15 February 2024.
An interdisciplinary project led by primatologist Gisela Kopp is using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of mummified baboons found in ancient Egypt.
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.