Current News

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.

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.