Current News

- Colouring Contest for Zukunftskolleg kids.

Inspired by Thomas Boettcher´s Jour fixe talk on “Targeting the Proteases of SARS-CoV-2”, the Zukunftskolleg launched a colouring contest to be creative against corona.

We congratulate Benjamin Eva who will join the Department of Philosophy at Duke University in Durham, USA, as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in autumn 2020.

At the end of April, a Netias - European Institutes for Advanced Study Network - virtual meeting took place to exchange ideas and reflections on how the current COVID-19 situation affects Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS).

Svetlana Boycheva Woltering is one of five new Research Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship in April and is affiliated with the Department of Biology.

Ariane Bertogg is one of five new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 14th call for applications. She has started her fellowship in April and is affiliated with the Department of History and Sociology.

We congratulate Nina Schneider (Alumna /Dept. of History and Sociology) whose application to the DFG for the project “Child Labour Opponents and their Campaigns in the Americas in Global Perspective, 1888-1938" was granted (Sachmittelbeihilfe).

We congratulate Roxana Halbleib (Research Fellow / Dept. of Economics) who has accepted a professorship (W3) for Statistics and Econometrics at the Institute of Economics at the University of Freiburg. She will start working there in May 2020.

We congratulate Jennifer Randerath (Department of Psychology) on receiving a DFG Grant worth up to 267.252 euros, plus 58.800 euros programme allowance for 36 months.

In its meeting on 12/13 February 2020, the Recruitment Committee decided on the 5-year candidates to be offered a Research Fellowship.

We have received 297 applications for the ZUKOnnect Fellowships (application deadline was on 28 February 2020).

In the Assembly of Members on 11 February, the fellows elected Nihan Toprakkiran (Postdoctoral Fellow/Politics and Public Administration) and Henri Kauhanen (Postdoctoral Fellow/Linguistics) to serve as new members in the Executive Committee.

In its meeting on 23/24 January 2020, the Recruitment Committee decided on the 2-year candidates to be offered a Postdoctoral Fellowship.

We congratulate Takayuki Kurihara (Research Fellow / Department of Physics) who has accepted a position as Research Associate (Assistant Professor) in the Laser and Synchrotron Research Center (LASOR) at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo.

Oleksandra Kukharenko (Fellow / Department of Chemistry) accepted a new position as a group leader in the Theory Department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.

In 2018, the Zukunftskolleg and the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem organized a symposium entitled Un/certainty.

The research team around Thomas Böttcher studies the chemistry of the interactions between phages and bacteria.

Second call for applications for early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America launched

Andrea Lailach Hennrich wins the 2019 joint prize question of Collegium Helveticum and Zukunftskolleg on “Disrupted Order?”

In its meeting on 26 November, the Assembly of Members elected Morgane Nouvian (Dept. of Biology) to serve as member in the Executive Committee.

The Netias Directors assembled at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, on 11-12 November.

We congratulate Julián Torres-Dowdall, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg since August 2013, on receiving a 3-years DFG Grant worth 370.450 euros.

We congratulate Julien Bernard (Philosophy / Alumnus) who has published the collective book “Weyl and the Problem of Space” (in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Springer, vol 49).

Maria Cruz Berrocal (Associated Fellow / History and Sociology) investigates the consequences of the first European contact for local peoples in the Western Pacific in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Alofi project is a two-years programme funded by the Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

In its current call for five 2- and five 5-year Fellowships (the closing date for applications was 15 October 2019), the Zukunftskolleg received 132 applications.

Jennifer Randerath wins "Konstanzer Transferpreis 2019" for transferring scientific approaches into neurorehabilitation.

Margaret Thomas (Associated Fellow / Department of Mathematics and Statistics) joined the Department of Mathematics at the Purdue University as a new tenure-track assistant professor.

In summer term 2019, the Zukunftkolleg launched its first "Zukunftskolleg Video Award". The award is part of our network activities with our 23 sister institutions in Europe (NetIAS), and was initiated on the occasion of the European Researchers` Night on 27 September 2019.

Sana Shams started her fellowship in August. She is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics.

Denisha Gounden began her fellowship in August. She is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry, where she has joined the Hybrid Nanostructures group, headed by Professor Lukas Schmidt-Mende.