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On the occasion of the Zukunftskolleg´s tenth anniversary Giovanni Galizia (Director of the Zukunftskolleg), Jennifer Randerath (Research Fellows/Dept. of Psychology) and Dennis Pingen (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Chemistry) were interviewed within the series “In dialogue”.

We are proud to welcome our first new Fellow from our 12th call for applications to the Zukunftskolleg: Udith Dematagoda has started his Postdoctoral Fellowship in December. For the next two years, he will be part of our community and work on his research project "Machine Men, Machine Minds, Machine Heart: Masculinity, Technology and Fascist Modernities". Udith is associated with the Department of Literature.

This year, the Zukunftskolleg had issued calls for applications for 5-year Research Fellowships, a 5-year Hector Pioneer Fellowship as well as for 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships.

On two meetings in October and in November/December, the Recruitment Committee selected the candidates.

We congratulate Malte Drescher, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2008 until 2013, and his working group on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant worth approximately 2 million euros.

Congratulations to Tanja Rinker! She passed her habilitation and received the double venia legendi in German Linguistics and German as Second Language at the University of Tübingen.

We congratulate the winners of the latest Mentorship call and welcome them as new Associated Fellows of the Zukunftskolleg.

Former Bridge Fellow Maroussia Favre has accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz.

The Zukunftskolleg has established effective structures for the promotion of junior researchers since 1 November 2007.

Tanja Rinker (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) has accepted a permanent position at the University of Tübingen.

Maité Crespo Garcia (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Psychology) will start as a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, on November 1.

We congratulate Roxana Halbleib (Research Fellow/Dept. of Economics) who has received this year's Wolfgang-Wetzel-Award of the German Statistical Society for excellent young researchers.

Doris Penka (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) and Sven Lauer (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) have accepted and share a substitute professorship for General Linguistics with a focus on Semantics at the University of Konstanz in winter term 2017/18.

Maria Daniela Poli (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Law) has accepted a position as Visiting Professor at the Italian Center (Italienzentrum) of the Free University of Berlin for one academic year, starting from October 1.

María Cruz Berrocal (Research Fellow/Dept. of History and Sociology) has been nominated to take part in the STARS symposia from 23-26 September.

Sebastian Schutte has accepted a temporary professorship for International Policy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in winter term 2017/18.

Michael Pester has accepted a professorship for Evolutionary Systematics of Microorganisms at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.

Dr Carolin Antos is awarded a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for examining the effects of the forcing technique on the foundations of mathematics

"Linguistics and Philosophy" recently published the article "Number word constructions, degree semantics and the metaphysics of degrees" of Doris Penka (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) and Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Alumni/Dept. of Philosophy)

We congratulate Andreas Thum who accepted a professorship for genetics at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

We congratulate Maria Zhukova, Associated Fellow affiliated with the Department of Literature, for securing a Marbach Scholarship!

We congratulate Oleksandra Kukharenko (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Chemistry) on securing a Carl Zeiss Postdoctoral Fellowship!

The Zukunftskolleg closed its 12th Call for Applications. Three 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships, two 5-year Research Fellowships and one 5-year Hector Pioneer Fellowship have been advertised.

Call for applications for post-doctoral fellowships in the humanities at universities and research institutes in the U.S. and Germany

Roxana Halbleib, Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg affiliated with the Department of Economics, will participate in the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences together with Laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Tanja Rinker, Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg associated with the Department of Linguistics, and Valerie Shafer, Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, co-published a paper with Markus Kiefer, Nancy Vidal, and Yan H. Yu titled "T-complex measures in bilingual Spanish-English and Turkish-German children and monolingual peers".

We congratulate Carolin Antos-Cuby on receiving a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship for her project "Forcing in Contemporary Philosophy of Set Theory"

The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Denis Seletskiy who accepted an assistant professorship at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.

The Zukunftskolleg opens its 12th Call for Applications. Three 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships, two 5-year Research Fellowships and one 5-year Hector Pioneer Fellowship are advertised. Deadline is June 13, 2017.

We express our solidarity with the Central European University! For the Zukunftskolleg, as an institution which promotes the early careers of young international researchers of all disciplines, independence is the essential idea: researchers shall be able to do research free of restraints. Any act that endangers the freedom of academia and the independence of scientific institutions worldwide has to be resisted!

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