Current News

As part of our various possibilities of funding programmes, the Zukunftskolleg officially launched its very own podcast series.

We congratulate Valeria Vegh Weis (Research Fellow / Dept. of Literature & Law) who has been selected as the “Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice Critical Criminologist of the Year 2021” by the American Society of Criminology.

In its latest call for three 2- and three 5-year Fellowships (the closing date for applications was 15 October 2021), the Zukunftskolleg received 84 applications.

Zukunftskolleg Fellows joined for a Writing Retreat at Insel Reichenau

"Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence" is the theme of the fourth edition of the Intercontinental Academia (ICA 4).

We welcome our new ZUKonnect and Herz Fellows that joined the Zukunftskolleg on 1 September 2021 virtually for one year. They will be on-campus for 3 to 4 months from autumn 2021.

We congratulate Jacob Bloomfield who won this year’s Scouloudi Publication Award.

It is time to say Goodbye to our ZUKOnnect cohort of 2020/21, who finished their on-campus research stay at the University of Konstanz at the end of July.

Stephan Streuber (Research Fellow / Dept. Computer and Information Science) has been appointed as Professor (W2) for “Usability Engineering und User Interface Design in the area of Visual Computing" at Coburg University of applied sciences and arts in Bavaria. He will officially start there in September.

Associated Fellow Lothar Sebastian Krapp receives the KlarText Prize for Science Communication.

We welcome Giora Hon at the Zukunftskolleg. He is a professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel.

In the Assembly of Members on 13 July, the fellows reelected Cristina Ruiz Agudo (Research Fellow / Chemistry) and elected Gruia Badescu (Research Fellow / History and Sociology) as well as Violeta Ivanova-Rohling (Postdoctoral Fellow / Physics) to serve as members in the Executive Committee.

Sabine El Chamaa will collaborate with Gruia Badescu (Research Fellow/Dept. of History and Sociology) in the framework of their intersectoral cooperative project "Beirut-Sarajevo Intersections"

Ariane Bertogg (Postdoctoral Fellow / History and Sociology) and Cristina Ruiz Agudo (Research Fellow / Chemistry) are two out of three winners of this year´s Messmer research award 2021, which is conferred by the "Werner und Erika Messmer-Stiftung".

Today, the Zukunftskolleg opened its 16th call for applications for three Research Fellowships and three Postdoctoral Fellowships. Application deadline is 15 October 2021

We welcome the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) group of Anna Sagana, Gabriele Chlevickaite and Nikolaos Aletras

Together with our sister institutes in Europe, we have launched the 2021 call for funding for research groups - Constructive Advanced Thinking - short CAT.

We congratulate Beatriz Puente-Ballesteros (Alumna / Dept. of History and Sociology) who was awarded the 2021 J. Worth Estes Prize at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine on 14 May 2021.

Within the third call for ZUKOnnect Fellowships and the first call for Zukunftskolleg Herz Fellowships eight fellowships were granted.

The Zukunftkolleg has just published calls for applications for several funding programmes open to all non-tenured researchers of the University of Konstanz.

There are two deadlines for applications for all programmes: 4 June and 5 July 2021

We congratulate Carolin Antos-Kuby who has been invited by the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna for a visiting professorship in the summer semester 2021.

On 20 and 21 April, the European Institutes of Advanced Study came together virtually in their annual meeting of NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study) to foster cooperation between institutions and initiate new joint projects ranging from the funding programme CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) to the network's lecture series (European Lecture Series).

From 12-14 April 2021, the members of the UBIAS network (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study) met virtually for their biannual conference.

We congratulate Klaus Boldt (Research Fellow / Dept. of Chemistry) whose application to the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation was granted.

As part of the Zukunftskolleg’s annual day trip, on 23 March 2021 the fellows went on a virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) of New York City, during which Margaret Samu explained the highlights of the museum.

We congratulate Pantelis Eleftheriou (Research Fellow / Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics) who has been awarded an EPSRC (=Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Early Career Fellowship, as well as a tenure-track position at the University of Leeds, UK.

Congratulations to Klaus Boldt! He passed his habilitation and obtained the teaching license in Physical Chemistry and Solid State Chemistry.

Two new Senior Fellows will join the Zukunftskolleg in the summer semester 2021 for a period of 12 months: Professor Graham Underwood (School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, UK) and Babu Thaliath (School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).

We have received 190 applications within the latest call for ZUKOnnect Fellowships (application deadline was on 24 February 2021).