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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!

We are happy to announce that starting today, Sebastian Schutte will be a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg. Sebastian has already been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 06/2014 until 07/2016.  As a Research Fellow, he will be working at his project “Measuring violence and emergent hostility in ongoing civil wars: a mobile phone-based approach”. For this project he received a grant of 88,000 EUR by Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung. Sebastian is affiliated with the…

The role and the scientific relevance of German Institutes for Advanced Studies were discussed in a public conference hosted by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

We congratulate Tuhin Shuvra Basu! He will receive a Humboldt Stiftung grant starting August 1st. Tuhin Basu, Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg, is affiliated with the Department of Physics of the University of Konstanz.

 A new short film about the Zukunftskolleg produced by Albert Kümmel-Schnur. Please see the Film on the Zukunftskolleg website https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/about-zukunftskolleg/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4hnp-OizgA

We congratulate Marilena Manea, who accepted a position at Chromsystems Instruments & Chemicals GmbH in Gräfelfing/München.

Together with the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem the Zukunftskolleg will hold a joint symposium on "Mobility. A concept and a way of life".

The meeting is organized by Giovanni Galizia, Anda Lohan, Lukas Barwitzki, Daniela Kromrey, Daniela Poli, Bianca Gaudenzi, Nadir Weber, Andrea Lailach-Hennrich and Oleksandra Kukharenko

This fellowship program addresses postdocs in the humanities who wish to spend time researching in Germany or the USA.

We congratulate Margarita Stolarova who accepted a position as  Head of the Devision for Early Childhood Educational Concepts at the German Youth Institute in Munich. Margarita Stolarova joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Research Fellow in December, 2009. After holding temporary professorships at the University of Konstanz and the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Margarita will start her new position in June 2016. We wish her all the very best!

Sven Lauer was successful in applying for a DFG funded Emmy-Noether project. For the upcoming five years, Sven and his research team will work on the project "What Is It to Ask a Question? - A Formal Pragmatic Investigation of Interrogative Force". The project will start in autumn 2016. In the meantime, Sven is a visiting researcher at Georg-August-University Göttingen (Germany). We congratulate Sven!

We congratulate Elliott Lash, who has accepted a position as a Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, starting on May 1, 2016. The 4-year position is part of the ERC funded project Chronologicon Hibernicum. The project aims to create a methodology to linguistically date early Irish texts in order to facilitate research into the history of the Irish language. We wish Elliott Lash all the best for his…

Nina Schneider, Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg from 2013 to 2015 and then Associated Fellow, gave a very interesting interview about the govermental crisis in Brasilia on Deutschlandradio Kultur. You can find it here.

We congratulate Daniel Plaumann who has accepted an associate professorship in Algebra and its Applications at the Faculty of Mathematics at the TU Dortmund (Germany). Daniel Plaumann joined the Zukunftskolleg as a Research Fellow in 2013. His professorship will start in April 2016 and we wish him all the very best!

Ulrich Sieberer has accepted a Professorship for Empirical Political Science at the University of Bamberg (Germany) starting on April 2016. Ulrich Sieberer has been a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Politics and Public Administration since 2011. We wish him all the best for his new position.

We congratulate Eleanor Coghill who has been offered a full professorship in “Semitic Languages” in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). Eleanor Coghill is a Research Fellow since 2010 and also Researcher at the University of Zürich (Switzerland). Her professorship will be starting in August. We wish her all the best!

The Center of Multilinguism and the newly built Binational School of Education were successfull in applying for the program „Leuchttürme der Lehrerbildung ausbauen“, called by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg. Their project „Bildungssprache fördern: neue Perspektiven auf Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Fachunterricht“ will be supported with 930,000 euros. Zukunftskolleg Research Fellow Tanja Rinker, Janet Grijzenhout and her team will research in this area fort the…

Thanks to the success of the exhibition “Gedankengeflechte”, Julien Bernard and Julie Pelletier are organizing similar events on Biomorphism in Europe - with several artists and interdisciplinary researchers. The next exhibition will be in Lisbon in February 2016. They have also submitted applications to realize the project in Marseille and Barcelona. Julien Bernard points out: “We are happy and proud about the Zukunftskolleg having trusted us for this project, and we still present the…

The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Philip Leifeld who accepted a Professorship at the University of Glasgow. In July he will start working as Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods at the School of Social and Political Sciences. We wish him all the best.

We congratulate Sarang Dalal who accepted an Associate Professorship at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University in Denmark. It is a tenure-track position, and he will start there on March 1, 2016. We wish him all the best!

We congratulate Joanna Chojnicka who accepted a position as research fellow at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies of the University of Bremen. The four-year postdoctoral fellowship is financed by the program “Independent Projects for Post-Docs” of the University’s Central Research Development Fund (Zentrale Forschungsförderung). The fellowship will last until November 2019. The topic of her project is “Strategies of constructing femininity, masculinity and sexual identity in German,…

We congratulate Ariel Gutman who started working as a Software Engineer at Google in December. He is part of a group dealing with Natural Language Processing, i.e. the computational handling of human language. “I was approached by Google last year, asking me if I want to make an interview by them. Since I was at that time reflecting whether I want to continue in academia or do something else, it seemed like a fortunate opportunity. Moreover, they proved to be very flexible, waiting for a year…

We congratulate Julia Boll whose application to the DFG for a 3-year position was granted. Starting on April 2016 she will work on her project “Thinking through Theatre: the Bare Life on Stage”. Further she will receive money for student assistants, conference and research travels, inviting guests and organizing workshops.

The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Katherine Fama who accepted a lecturer position with tenure-track in the Faculty of the School of English, Film, and Drama at the University College in Dublin, Ireland. She will start working there in January 2016. We wish her all the best.

The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Roland Weierstall who accepted a Professorship for Clinical Psychology/Psychotherapy at the Medical School in Hamburg, Germany. He started working there on October 1, 2015. We wish him all the best.

The Zukunftskolleg congratulates Margarita Stolarova who has accepted two part-time stand-in positions in Educational Sciences at the University of Konstanz in winter term 2015/16. Margarita will stand-in for a research group leader and for an assistant professor in Empirical Educational Research.

We congratulate Malte Drescher who is the first Heisenberg Professor at the University of Konstanz. He is professor for “Spectroscopy of Complex Systems” at the department of chemistry. On October 15, he will give his inaugural lecture on “Spies, Spins and Spectra” in which he explains the Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy as a method to analyze the structure and dynamic of macromolecules.  The Heisenberg Professorship is funded by the German Research Foundation for the duration of five…