Biologist Daniela Rößler from the University of Konstanz's Zukunftskolleg honoured for her publication on a state of jumping spiders that is similar to REM sleep.
Training programme to support students in the Hilde Domin-Programme – offered by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Konstanz.
Experts say the commuter allowance increases income inequality in Germany and contributes to higher pollution. But, as Konstanz researchers show in a recent study, the public perceives the effects differently. Informing individuals about the true effects increases support for policy reforms that would be better for the environment and social inclusion.
Do international sanctions work? And what effects do they have? In order to examine these and similar questions, Konstanz political scientists Gerald Schneider and Patrick M. Weber compiled an extensive data set, which is now freely available.
For the third time, the Hector Fellow Academy has presented the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award. On January 28, 2023, the jury of experts selected three young scientists whose research careers the Hector Fellow Academy now supports: Among them is neuroscientist Anna Stöckl from the CASCB and the University of Konstanz.
Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds.