Madeline Lancaster awarded 2021 Vallee Scholarship
24.09.21 | The biologist is recognised for her work on cerebral organoids or ‘mini-brains’, grown from human pluripotent stem cells and used to model human brain development.
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Jane Hillston and Julie Welburn awarded medals by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
15.09.21 | The AcademiaNet members received their medals for outstanding work in computer science and cell biology, respectively.
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Daniela Grunow and team win funding for new DFG Research Unit on the consequences of social change
09.09.21 | The new Research Unit will investigate how changing social structures affect individual views, beliefs and behaviours in today’s Germany.
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Christiane Helling becomes new director of the Space Research Institute of the ÖAW
31.08.21 | The astrophysicist will among other things lead the institute through its contribution to ESA’s VOYAGE 2050 programme.
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Anja Boisen lands 6 million DKK in funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation
30.08.21 | With the grant comes the title of Distinguished Innovator, making the renowned health tech researcher and nanotechnologist an ‘ambassador for innovation’.
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Karin Jacobs elected Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
12.08.21 | The experimental physicist is one of four new appointees to the Executive Committee of Germany’s largest research funding body.
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Anneli Kaasa: ‘My hypothesis is that different theories just group the same cultural elements in somewhat different ways’
09.08.21 | It’s time to take a clear-headed look at the way we study culture, argues Anneli Kaasa, Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Economics at the University of Tartu. For a subject of such crucial importance to governments and businesses around the world, there is too much confusion—both for researchers and the public.
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Sandra Luber is the 2021 recipient of the Coblentz Award
26.07.21 | The theoretician, who develops novel computational methods in absorption and vibrational spectroscopy, is among only a handful of women to win since 1964.
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Maria Leptin to become new President of the European Research Council
15.07.21 | The developmental biologist only recently stepped down from her role as Director of EMBO.
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Elizabeth von Hauff becomes Director of the Fraunhofer FEP Institute
12.07.21 | The physicist, who specialises in solar power and energy conversion, has also been given a professorship at the Dresden University of Technology.
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