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Results of the 2020 Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme

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.

Public Statement by the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS)

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.

We congratulate Gianluca Rastellli (Research Fellow / Dept. of Physics) who has received a permanent position as scientific researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR, Centro Nazionale di Ricerca).

We welcome Hari Sridhar at the Zukunftskolleg. He has started his Senior Fellowship as Writer in Residence at the Zukunftskolleg – first digitally and in 2021 on campus.

We congratulate Julia Boll who has joined the Department of Language, Literature, and Media II at the University of Hamburg, as Associate Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) for British Studies.

Thomas Böttcher has been a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg and junior research group leader at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Konstanz since 2014. In October 2020 he was appointed as Professor for Microbial Biochemistry at the University of Vienna. We spoke with him about his experiences in Konstanz, his advice for the German university landscape and his plans for Vienna.

We welcome our ZUKonnect Fellows that joined the Zukunftskolleg digitally on 1 October.

We congratulate Sasha Kosanic (Alumna / Dept. of Biology) who has started a lectureship at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, at the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences.

We congratulate Elliot Lash (Alumnus / Dept. of Linguistics) who received a DFG grant for an “Eigene Stelle”.

The Zukunftskolleg opened a new call for applications for its 2021/22 cohort of Senior Fellows.

We congratulate Janina Beiser-McGrath (Alumna / Dept. of Politics and Public Administration) who has accepted a lecturer position in Politics and International Relations (Quantitative Methods) at the Centre for International Security at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Stinging insects—especially those with a predilection for our picnics—can be the sting in the tail of summer. But knowing a bit about the biology and behaviour of stinging insects can help us coexist for the brief period we’re together outdoors, says bee researcher Morgane Nouvian, member of the Zukunftskolleg and the Cluster of Excellence “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour”.

We congratulate Ilja Serzants (Alumnus / Dept. of Linguistics) who was appointed to a W2 Professorship in Slavic Linguistics with a focus on historical linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

Jacob is one of five new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 14th call for applications. He has started his fellowship today and is affiliated with the Department of Literature.

The Zukunftskolleg has published an internal call for applications for the extension of fellowships in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sidney Carls-Diamante is one of five new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship in July and is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy.

Gisela Kopp was selected as one of 10 new members of Die Junge Akademie.

Gruia Bãdescu is one of five new Research Fellows from the 14th call for applications. He has started his fellowship on 1 July and is affiliated with the Department of History and Sociology.

People in the US and around the world are coming together to protest against institutionalized racism and racialized violence. We, too, cannot remain silent and continue with ‘research as usual’.

Artist Sarah Bildstein is nominated for this year´s Anton Faistauer Award for Painting

Together with our sister institutes in Europe, we have launched the 2020 call for funding for research groups - Constructive Advanced Thinking - short CAT.

Today, the Zukunftskolleg opened its 15th call for applications for three Research Fellowships and three to five Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Cristina Ruiz Agudo is one of five new Research Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry.

The Zukunftskolleg as part of the European Network of Institutes for Advanced Studies (NetIAS) announces the launch of its European NetIAS Lectures Series. "Borders" defines the overarching theme for the series in summer 2020.

For the second call for applications for ZUKOnnect Fellowships (application deadline: 28 February 2020), 297 applications have been submitted, 205 of which were eligible.