New Fellows wanted!
The Senior and Junior Fellows for 2023 have been appointed. Six scientists from all over the world will come to Germany with this fellowship. Applications for the 2024 Fellowships are now open.
Since 2019, the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt" (Bayreuth Humboldt Centre) has been awarding international guest researchers who then come to the University of Bayreuth for research stays. They cooperate with their Bayreuth hosts and get to know the Upper Franconian campus as a dynamic learning and research location, where interdisciplinarity and creative thinking are lived.
Applications for Senior and Junior Fellowships for 2024 can be submitted until 27 October 2023. Applications are also currently open for short research stays of one to three weeks as part of the Short Term Grant Programme (deadline: 04.11.2023).
Applications are open to researchers from abroad; women and all persons who can contribute to making the research profile of the university more diverse are strongly encouraged to apply in view of the goal of equal opportunities. Potential hosts of applicants are all active professors and junior professors of the University of Bayreuth as well as post-doctoral researchers and heads of junior research groups.
Further information and detailed application conditions can be found on our website www.humboldt-centre.uni-bayreuth.de. The office will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
The six Fellows of 2023 come from six different countries. "Selecting the Fellows this year was a Herculean task," says Prof. Dr. Bernhard Herz, Deputy Director of the Humboldt Center. "Not only were the applications of very high quality, but the number of applications more than doubled compared to last year." This year's fellowships go to:
1) Dr Annelies Andries (Junior Fellow) from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is a musicologist and will implement a project in Bayreuth on "Gender in Translation: Bavarian Translations of French Operas, 1800-1825". Her host is Prof. Dr. Kordula Knaus.
2) Prof. Dr. Sang Won Bae (Senior Fellow) from Kyonggi University in South Korea. He will work with his host Prof. Dr. Christian Knauer in Computer Science/Mathematics on higher order colour Voronoi diagrams.
3) Dr Paul Bentley (Senior Fellowship) from Imperial College London, UK. He is planning a project with his host Prof. Dr. Aldo Faisal using artificial intelligence and smart technology to monitor the health of stroke patients.
4) Dr Everton Maciel (Junior Fellow) from the Research Foundation of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development in Brazil is a biologist. He will be working with his host Prof. Dr. Steven Higgins on a research project aimed at identifying priority species and areas for the conservation of tree diversity in the tropical savannas of South America.
5) Prof. Dr. Christopher McNeill (Senior Fellow) from Monash University in Australia. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler and Prof. Dr. Eva M. Herzig, he will explore ways to improve solar cell technology by controlling the alignment and orientation of heterojunctions in organic solar cells.
6) Dr Frank Poulsen (Junior Fellow) from King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain. Together with his hosts Prof. Dr. Martin Ott and Prof. Dr. Astrid Swenson, he will investigate "Hermann Conring and the Legal History of the Holy Roman Empire".