Current News

Julián Torres-Dowdall (Postdoctoral Fellow / Biology) has been appointed as assistant professor (with tenure track) at Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.

From 14 to 15 July, the new members of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Zukunftskolleg met for the first time in Konstanz.

The award ceremony took place on 15 July 2022 in the Kastaniengarten on Mainau Island.

We cordially welcome the following ZUKonnect and Herz Fellows who joined the Zukunftskolleg on 1 July 2022 virtually for one year. They will be on-campus for 3 to 4 months from autumn 2022:

Symposium hosted by the Zukunftskolleg in the Spiegelhalle takes place subsequently to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings – Public exhibition about research in chemistry

We warmly welcome Valerio Coladonato (Assistant Professor - Film Studies Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and his CAT group at the Zukunftskolleg.

Eduardo Luersen is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of Literature.

The new Board of Die Junge Akademie has taken up its work following the summer plenary session on 5 June.

James Wilson is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of History and Sociology.

Yuko Ulrich is a biologist from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. She convinced the jury with her research on the interaction between social organization and disease resistance in social insects.

Jacob Bloomfield (Literature), Gabriella Gall (Biology) and Noelia Martinéz Doallo (Law) take part in an Improvisation theatre at the Long Night of the Sciences on 14 May.

We welcome the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) group of Jessie Dezutter (Leuven, Belgium), Gørill Haugan (Trondheim, Norway), Suvi-Maria Saarelainen (Helsinki, Finland) and Helena Larsson (Kristianstad, Sweden).

We are happy to announce that Krizler Tanalgo - former ZUKOnnect Fellow and affiliate member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) - has published one of the first and largest databases for bat cave conservation in Nature's Scientific Data.

We say Goodbye and Farewell to our ZUKOnnect and Herz cohort of 2021/22, who finished their on-campus research stays at the University of Konstanz in the past months.

The fellows of the Zukunftskolleg stand in solidarity with their fellow researchers in Ukraine. Therefore, the Zukunftskolleg has launched a new call for applications for Visiting Fellowships open to early career researchers in Ukraine threatened by the current war (“scholars at risk”).

Results of the 2021 Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme

We have received 200 applications within the latest call for ZUKOnnect Fellowships (application deadline was on 15 February 2022).

The 16th Fellowship call has closed. In its meetings on 27/28 January, 2022 and 17/18 February 2022, the Recruitment Committee selected three new 2-year Postdoctoral Fellows and decided on four candidates to be offered a 5-year Research Fellowship.

Philipp di Dio is the final of the new Research Fellows from the 15th call for applications. He has started his fellowship in March and is affiliated with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

The Zukunftskolleg has introduced a new research prize: The Zukunftskolleg Research Award aims to acknowledge outstanding young researchers and support their careers.

In the Assembly of Members on 8 February, the fellows elected Ariane Bertogg (Postdoctoral Fellow / History and Sociology) to serve as new member in the Executive Committee.

The first Recruitment Committee meeting of the 16th Fellowship Selection Process has taken place on 27-28 January 2022.

We congratulate Mohsen Jenadeleh (Associated Fellow / Computer and Information Science) who has received a 3-year grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for his project „JND-based perceptual video quality analysis and modelling“.

In the Assembly of Members on 14 December, the fellows elected Abena Yalley (Postdoctoral Fellow / Literature & Politics and Public Administration) to serve as new member in the Executive Committee.

For the second time, the Zukunftskolleg has launched the Zukunftskolleg Herz Fellowship Call, which is similar to the ZUKOnnect Fellowship but relies on active recruitment rather than open application.

We congratulate Tina Bögel (former Associated Fellow / Linguistics) who has received a 3-year grant from The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) for her collaborative project with Alice Turk on the „Prosodic Structure at the Interface between Language and Speech“.

On 15 November, on the occasion of the Regional Science Forum in Tuttlingen, the foundation “Manfred Ulmer-Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft” at the University of Konstanz officially has awarded Ilesha Avasthi the Manfred-Ulmer-Stipendium.

The Zukunftskolleg is pleased to announce a new call for Zukunftskolleg Konnect (ZUKOnnect) Fellowships. The ZUKOnnect Fellowships support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America related to one of the thirteen departments of the University of Konstanz. Application deadline is 15 February 2022.

The Zukunftkolleg has just published calls for applications for several funding programmes open to all non-tenured researchers of the University of Konstanz. Application deadline for all programmes is 15 February 2022.