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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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Excavations in Taiwan by María Cruz Berrocal’s international research group demonstrate that the region was already a globalisation hub during the early 17th century. María Cruz Berrocal is a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz and associated with the Department of History and Sociology.

We congratulate Klaus Boldt on receiving a DFG Grant worth 215,000 EUR.

We congratulate Leila Whitley on securing a grant from the British Academy worth 10,000 Pounds.

The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group proposals for the 2019-2020 academic year.

In the summer term 2017, some of our Fellows will be away for visitig research stays.

We congratulate Annette Hautli-Janisz for securing a VW Foundation grant worth 760.000 EUR

We are currently looking for two "Studentische Hilfskraft" or "Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft" to work with the central office of the Zukunftskolleg. Deadline for the application is February 10, 2017.

We congratulate Doris Penka on receiving a Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange grant.

We started off the new year with a series about our Zukunftskolleg Alumni. Take a moment and get inspired by these outstanding researchers.

In January/February 2017, the Zukunftskolleg will issue new calls for applications for 2-year and 5-year fellowships.

The University of Konstanz seeks to appoint for a Gips-Schüle Junior Research Group Leader in Animal Social Networks.

We congratulate Gianluca Rastelli on receiving a DFG Grant worth approximately 190.000 EUR.

We congratulate Daniel Summerer, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2011 until 2015, on receiveing an ERC Consolidator Grant worth approximately 2 million EUR.

The Zukunftskolleg offers up to five Zukunftskolleg Bridge Fellowships (any discipline represented at the University of Konstanz). The positions are available between March 1, 2017 to October 31, 2017 for a maximum of eight months.

We congratulate Alexander Titz, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2010 until 2013, on receiveing an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately 1.5 million EUR.

The Zukunftskolleg offers new calls for applications for several programmes. Some of the programmes are open to all postdoctoral researchers of the University of Konstanz. Deadline for all calls for applications is January 31, 2017.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation jointly offer Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in Germany. The Fellowships aim at enabling postdoctoral researchers based in the U.S. to spend some time conducting studies at universities or research institutes in Germany. The grants will be awarded for a period of 9 - 12 months for the academic year 2017/2018. Application deadline is September 15, 2016. The Zukunftskolleg is one of…

Monika Class has accepted a junior professorship in "English Literature and Culture" at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany). Monika Class joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Postdoctoral Fellow in March 2014. Her professorship will start in September 2016. We wish her all the very best!