Current News

Thomas Böttcher (Research Fellow/Dept. of Chemistry) obtained a grant by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and a grant by the Vector Foundation.

Senior Fellow Giora Hon (University of Haifa) will be at the Zukunftskolleg from 23 August until 23 September.

Jolle Jolles (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Biology) and Yonatan Gez (Martin Buber Society/Dept. of History and Sociology) are the first winners of a research visit at the Zukunftskolleg.

Today, we opened our 13th call for applications for Research Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships. The application deadline is 15 October 2018.

Leila Whitley (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Literature) has accepted a position as Lecturer in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, starting in winter term 2018/19.

Today, the Assembly of Members elected Gisela Kopp (Hector Pioneer Fellow/Dept. of Biology) as a new member to the Executive Committe.

Denis Gebauer (Research Fellow / Dept. of Chemistry) is this year’s winner of the Environment Award funded by the LBS Landesbausparkasse Südwest (state home loans and savings bank). The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

In the course of the past eight months, the quality management team of the University of Konstanz has conducted an extensive evaluation of the Zukunftskolleg. The report shows that the Zukunftskolleg has been successful in all areas.

Professor Kirsten Mahlke, Alumna of the forerunner of the Zukunftskolleg, and her colleagues Junior Professor Nicolas Detering and Professor Albrecht Koschorke have been awarded with the Dr. Karl Helmut Eberle-Preis. The prize is endowed with 500,000 euros.

Congratulations to the winners of the Mentorship and the Independent Research Grant Programme! In its meeting on 13 June, the Executive Committee decided on the final applications within the two calls for support measures (application deadline was on 23 May, early applications were considered preferentially in the EC meeting on 2 May).

We congratulate Daniele Brida, who will be Professor of Physics at the University of Luxembourg from 1 July 2018. Daniele joined the Zukunftskolleg in April 2013 as a 5-year Research Fellow.

The Zukunftskolleg is now a member of NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study). The network brings together 23 Institutes for Advanced Study across Europe. Researchers affiliated with member institutions are eligible to apply for a Research Visit at the Zukunftskolleg.

We welcome the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (UAIC) as a new cooperation partner of the Zukunftskolleg.

We welcome Mark Dykman to the Zukunftskolleg. He was invited as Senior Fellow by Gianluca Rastelli (Research Fellow / Dept.of Physics). Mark Dykman is a Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, USA. Gianluca decribes him as “one of the most outstanding theorists in the field of quantum condensed matter physics.”

In its meeting on 2 May, the Executive Committee decided on the applications within two calls for support measures: the Mentorship Programme and the Independent Research Grant.

Further the EC welcomed a new member: Carolin Antos-Kuby (Research Fellow/Dept. of Philosophy).

We sincerely regret the passing of Thomas Hengartner, our scientific advisory board member, close collaborator and friend. We have lost an outspoken, humorous and engaging personality.

The Zukunftskolleg extended its network of international cooperation partners by a partnership with the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) based in Tokyo.

Jolene Tan is the last of our new fellows from the 12th call for applications to join the Zukunftskolleg. She will start her 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship on June 1st and is affiliated with the department of psychology.

Leila Whitley (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Literature) is a visiting scholar in the Sociology department at the University of Cambridge (UK) from 25 April until 25 May.

During May, Udith Dematagoda (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Literature) will work as Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, USA.

Denis Gebauer passed his habilitation and received the Venia Legendi in Chemistry at the University of Konstanz.

Today, the Zukunftskolleg has issued calls for applications for new support measures to increase the international mobility of our fellows and enlarge the intercultural atmosphere at the Zukunftskolleg. The Research Visits programme encourages temporary international research stays for our fellows (Outgoing Research Visits) as well as inviting excellent, early career researchers from around the world to visit the Zukunftskolleg (Incoming Research Visits).

We are happy to announce that Carolin Antos has been a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg since April 1st.

UBIAS is a network of about 40 University-based Institutes for Advanced Studies worldwide, initiated in 2010.

Takayuki Kurihara has started his 5-year Research Fellowship on April 1st. He is affiliated with the department of physics and specialised in ultrafast optics.

"Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation - Between Text and Practice", edited by Barbara Hausmair (Alumna / Dept. of History and Sociology), Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent, and Eleanor Williams has recently been published by Berghahn Books.

Nadir Weber (Postdoctoral Fellow / Dept. of History and Sociology) has accepted a position at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

In summer 2018, the Zukunftskolleg will issue new calls for applications for 2-year and 5-year fellowships. The upcoming call for applications is expected to open in July 2018. Envisaged deadline is October 2018.

We are happy to welcome Jolle Jolles to the Zukunftskolleg. He started his Postdoctoral Fellowship in March.