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 15 February 2023.
In its latest call for one 2-year Postdoctoral and one 5-year Research Fellowship (closing date for applications was 31 October 2022), the Zukunftskolleg received 59 applications.
Congratulations to our Senior Fellow Babu Thalitah who was nominated by the KAAD Foundation Peter Hünermann as award winner of the year 2023 for his outstanding academic achievements.
Welcome again to Anna Stöckl - one of our new Research Fellows from the Department of Biology. Today (17 October), she is giving a lecture at the University of Konstanz entitled “Visual processing underlying natural behaviour - From single photons to pattern recognition”.
We congratulate Angelo di Bernardo (Research Fellow / Physics) who has received this year’s Nicholas Kurti Prize, together with Alexander Grimm from the Paul Scherrer Institute.
The feedback that Daniela Rößler received after her paper was published in the science journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) is unbelievable!
Alice el-Wakil (Postdoctoral Fellow / Politics and Public Administration) has been appointed as assistant professor in Political Theory at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anamaria Bentea is one of our new Research Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. She has started her fellowship in August and is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics.
We congratulate Sidney Carls-Diamante (Postdoctoral Fellow / Philosophy) who got funding from the Karst Stiftung as well as the Messmer research award 2022 for her project “Attitudes towards voluntary death in persons with bipolar disorder".
Julián Torres-Dowdall (Postdoctoral Fellow / Biology) has been appointed as assistant professor (with tenure track) at Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA.
We cordially welcome the following ZUKonnect and Herz Fellows who joined the Zukunftskolleg on 1 July 2022 virtually for one year. They will be on-campus for 3 to 4 months from autumn 2022:
Symposium hosted by the Zukunftskolleg in the Spiegelhalle takes place subsequently to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings – Public exhibition about research in chemistry
We warmly welcome Valerio Coladonato (Assistant Professor - Film Studies Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and his CAT group at the Zukunftskolleg.
Eduardo Luersen is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of Literature.
James Wilson is one of our new Postdoctoral Fellows from the 16th call for applications for fellowships. He has started his fellowship in June and is affiliated with the Department of History and Sociology.
Yuko Ulrich is a biologist from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena. She convinced the jury with her research on the interaction between social organization and disease resistance in social insects.
Jacob Bloomfield (Literature), Gabriella Gall (Biology) and Noelia Martinéz Doallo (Law) take part in an Improvisation theatre at the Long Night of the Sciences on 14 May.
We welcome the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) group of Jessie Dezutter (Leuven, Belgium), Gørill Haugan (Trondheim, Norway), Suvi-Maria Saarelainen (Helsinki, Finland) and Helena Larsson (Kristianstad, Sweden).
We are happy to announce that Krizler Tanalgo - former ZUKOnnect Fellow and affiliate member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour (CASCB) - has published one of the first and largest databases for bat cave conservation in Nature's Scientific Data.
We say Goodbye and Farewell to our ZUKOnnect and Herz cohort of 2021/22, who finished their on-campus research stays at the University of Konstanz in the past months.
The fellows of the Zukunftskolleg stand in solidarity with their fellow researchers in Ukraine. Therefore, the Zukunftskolleg has launched a new call for applications for Visiting Fellowships open to early career researchers in Ukraine threatened by the current war (“scholars at risk”).
