03.12.21 | What’s it like to be an expert on viruses during a deeply politicised pandemic? We spoke to one of Germany’s busiest pandemic pundits, Professor Melanie Brinkmann, about personal drive, hate mail, and her hopes for the future.
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25.11.21 | Dr Nadine Akkerman from the University of Leiden spends her time breaking cipher codes to read the secret letters of 17th-century women. We asked her about her new book on Elizabeth Stuart and about why women made excellent spies during the English Civil War.
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17.11.21 | The funding for the three members totals over 16 million Swedish Kronor, or 1.6 million euro.
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11.11.21 | The prize was given for Prof Dame Glover’s role in developing microbiology as a field and discipline
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03.11.21 | Professor Susanne Rau from the University of Erfurt researches the reciprocal formation of religion and urbanity. AcademiaNet spoke with her about the ongoing interdependence of the two concepts as well as her most recent research around the rise and fall of European fairs.
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25.10.21 | The food scientist will optimise protein-rich microalgae for industrial production in Denmark
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14.10.21 | The grants are part of the £1.8 million RSE Saltire Research Awards.
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08.10.21 | The immunologist plans to use the accompanying funding to develop new and better antimalarial drugs.
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27.09.21 | What is it about humans that makes us so good at social interaction and what happens when it goes wrong? We spoke to Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development Uta Frith DBE about her upcoming book What Makes Us Social and what she’s learned from a long career at the forefront of autism and dyslexia research.
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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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