Current News

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.

We congratulate Research Fellow Anna Stöckl from the Department of Biology who has been appointed as Junior Professor at the University of Konstanz.

Our fellow from the department of Biology is honoured for her publication on a state of jumping spiders that is similar to REM sleep.

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.

We congratulate Ariane Bertogg whose Substitute Professorship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU) has been extended for another semester.

We look forward to a new year full of exciting opportunities for our Zukunftskolleg community. As a start: For 2023 we have selected our first ZUKOnnect and Herz Alumni Ambassadors. Congratulations Mahsa, Josiah and Priyanshu!

Congratulations to Susanne Wißhak (former Associated Fellow / Economics) for receiving a junior professorship at the new Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU).

At the beginning of December, four of our recent ZUKOnnect and Herz Fellows attended the ERUA ECR Workshop on "Interdisciplinary Research and Engaging the Non-academic" at the University of Roskilde.

Congratulations to Associated Fellow Jennifer Randerath (former Research Fellow / Psychology) and her research group who secured funding for their post-covid project “Multidimensional test concept for Fatigue Symptomatology in Long-COVID".

The Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) of Waseda University is organising the WIAS 15th Anniversary Symposium "Well-being in the time of uncertainty" together with the Zukunftskolleg and the Institute for Advanced Research of Nagoya University.

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Daniela Rößler: National Geographic named her research one of the "22 most amazing discoveries of 2022".

This year's Manfred Ulmer Fellowship is awarded to ZUKOnnect Fellow Angelo Javier Neira Albornoz from the Department of Computer and Information Science tonight at the Regional Science Forum in Donaueschingen.

We congratulate Armin Bahl (Research Fellow / Biology) who has received an ERC Starting Grant.

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 2023.

In its latest call for one 2-year Postdoctoral and one 5-year Research Fellowship (closing date for applications was 31 October 2022), the Zukunftskolleg received 59 applications.

The Mayor of Konstanz, Uli Burchardt, has visited the Zukunftskolleg on 8 November to discuss about "urban and sustainable development".

We congratulate Jolle Jolles (Alumnus / Dept. of Biology) who has received a 5-year Ramon y Cajal fellowship at CEAB in Blanes, Spain.

Congratulations to our Senior Fellow Babu Thalitah who was nominated by the KAAD Foundation Peter Hünermann as award winner of the year 2023 for his outstanding academic achievements.

Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Fellow Jacob Bloomfield who published his first monograph “Drag - A British History

Welcome again to Anna Stöckl - one of our new Research Fellows from the Department of Biology. Today (17 October), she is giving a lecture at the University of Konstanz entitled “Visual processing underlying natural behaviour - From single photons to pattern recognition”.

Nadir Weber (Alumnus / History and Sociology) has been appointed as first "Eccellenza" assistant professor at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.