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The European Research Council awards a Consolidator Grant to Professor Tanja Gaich from the University of Konstanz for a project on the synthesis of highly complex molecules from the taxane family through structural deconvolution. Funding is provided for the further development and testing of a new strategy for the synthesis of natural substances that could not previously be produced in the laboratory.

Political scientist Professor Katharina Holzinger was elected in a joint meeting of the Senate and University Council

Prof. Dr. Alfred Leitenstorfer von der Universität Konstanz wurde bei der International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) auf digitalem Weg der Kenneth J. Button-Preis übergeben.

Professor Dr. Daniel Keim vom Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft der Universität Konstanz ist Co-Autor eines Whitepaper zur Bedeutung der Schlüsseldisziplin Data Science

German Research Foundation (DFG) approves Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1432 “Fluctuations and Nonlinearities in Classical and Quantum Matter beyond Equilibrium” at the University of Konstanz

Democratic decision-making allows subordinate vulturine guineafowl to regain control over collective group actions when dominants have a monopoly over resources – research project by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Konstanz.

Long-term experiment involving organisational economist Nick Zubanov from the University of Konstanz conducted in cooperation with a retail company based in Eastern Europe reveals that middle managers can help reduce personnel turnover by up to 25 percent by spending more time with employees.

Watching metamaterials at work in real time using ultrafast electron diffraction: a research team led by University of Konstanz physicist Peter Baum succeeds in using ultrashort electron pulses to measure light-matter interactions in nanophotonic materials and metamaterials.

The University of Konstanz and the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) completed their first national survey of university students on the online summer semester 2020. The results indicate that the rapid transition to online teaching is generally viewed by students as a success. There is, however, still room for improvement.