Current News

We are happy to announce that Bianca Gaudenzi is now a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg! Bianca joined the Zukunftskolleg in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and is associated with the Department of History.

Two new fellow representatives have been elected on the executive committee

Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities at universities and research institutes in Germany. The Zukunftskolleg is one of 14 host institutions.

Philip Rathgeb's Postdoctoral Fellowship starts today. He is associated with the Department of Politics and Public Administration. At the Zukunftskolleg, Philip will work on a project entitled "When populism meets government: The social policy impact of the radical right in Europe".

Archaeologist María Cruz Berrocal has been offered a tenure-track position at the Department of History at the University of Cantabria, Santander (Spain). She will start her new position in February.

Congratulations to Aline Steinbrecher! She passed her habilitation and received the venia legendi in Modern History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

When the Executive Committee will meet for the first time this year, on January 17, it can welcome a new member: Sven Lauer.

We congratulate Klaus Boldt, Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg since April 2015 and affiliated with the Department of Chemistry, on receiving a DFG Grant worth 218.450 euros.

Unai Atxitia Macizo (former Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Physics) has been offered a junior group leader position at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Freie Universität Berlin.

On the occasion of the Zukunftskolleg´s tenth anniversary Giovanni Galizia (Director of the Zukunftskolleg), Jennifer Randerath (Research Fellows/Dept. of Psychology) and Dennis Pingen (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Chemistry) were interviewed within the series “In dialogue”.

We are proud to welcome our first new Fellow from our 12th call for applications to the Zukunftskolleg: Udith Dematagoda has started his Postdoctoral Fellowship in December. For the next two years, he will be part of our community and work on his research project "Machine Men, Machine Minds, Machine Heart: Masculinity, Technology and Fascist Modernities". Udith is associated with the Department of Literature.

This year, the Zukunftskolleg had issued calls for applications for 5-year Research Fellowships, a 5-year Hector Pioneer Fellowship as well as for 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships.

On two meetings in October and in November/December, the Recruitment Committee selected the candidates.

We congratulate Malte Drescher, Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg from 2008 until 2013, and his working group on receiving an ERC Consolidator Grant worth approximately 2 million euros.

Congratulations to Tanja Rinker! She passed her habilitation and received the double venia legendi in German Linguistics and German as Second Language at the University of Tübingen.

We congratulate the winners of the latest Mentorship call and welcome them as new Associated Fellows of the Zukunftskolleg.

Former Bridge Fellow Maroussia Favre has accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz.

The Zukunftskolleg has established effective structures for the promotion of junior researchers since 1 November 2007.

Tanja Rinker (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) has accepted a permanent position at the University of Tübingen.

Maité Crespo Garcia (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Psychology) will start as a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, on November 1.

We congratulate Roxana Halbleib (Research Fellow/Dept. of Economics) who has received this year's Wolfgang-Wetzel-Award of the German Statistical Society for excellent young researchers.

Doris Penka (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) and Sven Lauer (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) have accepted and share a substitute professorship for General Linguistics with a focus on Semantics at the University of Konstanz in winter term 2017/18.

Maria Daniela Poli (Postdoctoral Fellow/Dept. of Law) has accepted a position as Visiting Professor at the Italian Center (Italienzentrum) of the Free University of Berlin for one academic year, starting from October 1.

María Cruz Berrocal (Research Fellow/Dept. of History and Sociology) has been nominated to take part in the STARS symposia from 23-26 September.

Sebastian Schutte has accepted a temporary professorship for International Policy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in winter term 2017/18.

Michael Pester has accepted a professorship for Evolutionary Systematics of Microorganisms at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.

Dr Carolin Antos is awarded a Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for examining the effects of the forcing technique on the foundations of mathematics

"Linguistics and Philosophy" recently published the article "Number word constructions, degree semantics and the metaphysics of degrees" of Doris Penka (Research Fellow/Dept. of Linguistics) and Brendan Balcerak Jackson (Alumni/Dept. of Philosophy)

We congratulate Andreas Thum who accepted a professorship for genetics at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

We congratulate Maria Zhukova, Associated Fellow affiliated with the Department of Literature, for securing a Marbach Scholarship!