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
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.
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).
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.
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 congratulate Jolle Jolles (Postdoctoral Fellow / Dept. of Biology) who has accepted a position as independent postdoctorate researcher at the Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (CREAF) in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
In the Assembly of Members on 9 February, the fellows reelected Nihan Toprakkiran (Postdoctoral Fellow/Politics and Public Administration) and Henri Kauhanen (Postdoctoral Fellow/Linguistics) to serve for a second term of office as members in the Executive Committee.
The COVID 19 pandemic also poses major challenges and new questions for science. The Volkswagen Foundation responded to it with its "Corona Crisis and Beyond" funding programme, providing support to researchers of all disciplines.
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 24 February 2021.
Abena is one of five new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship digitally in September and now could join the Zukunftskolleg in person. Abena is affiliated with the Department of Literature.
The University of Konstanz has been recognized with the Henriette Herz Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its active recruitment concept for excellent early career researchers from the Global South.
We congratulate Claudius Kratochwil (Fellow / Dept. of Biology) who has accepted a position as group leader at the Institute for Biotechnology at the University of Helsinki.
