Sofja Kovalevskaja prize winner at the Zukunftskolleg

Dr. Niels Weidmann, winner of the renowned Sofja Kovalevskaja prize, will start working in the Zukunftskolleg on 1 October 2012. The financial means will be used to build a research group analyzing the role of modern communication technologies in mobilizing a huge crowd. Read more about it in the press release (in German):

https://cms.uni-konstanz.de/fileadmin/zentral/forschung/zukunftskolleg/124_2012_KovalevskajaPreis.pdf