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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hamadjam Abboubakar began his fellowship in August. He is affiliated with the research group of Professor Reinhard Racke in Analysis and Numerics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
We congratulate James Griffiths (Associated Fellow / Dept. of Linguistics) who has accepted the position of Tenure-Track Professor in English Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Tübingen. He started on 1 August 2019.
In its meeting on 16th July, the Assembly of Members elected Gisela Kopp (Dept. of Biology) and Cornelia Klocker (Dept. of Law) to serve as members in the Executive Committee.
