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Five researchers at Heidelberg University are receiving valuable funding from the European Research Council (ERC) in the form of an ERC Advanced Grant. They include chemist Prof. Dr Andreas Dreuw and neuropharmacologist Prof. Dr…

“Eleni Zimmer is an extraordinarily gifted and committed student, who has shown outstanding achievements both in coursework and in experimental research,” underlines Prof. Dr Ilse Hofmann from the German Cancer Research Center…

The academic “Specialised Information Service Art, Photography, Design” is being funded again by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The financial support is designated for expanding the web-based infrastructure of arthistoricum.net.…

An Emmy Noether junior research group at Heidelberg University is investigating how to gain new insights into fundamental biological mechanisms from large-scale molecular data sets. Led by Junior Professor Dr Britta Velten, it has…

Astrophysicist Dr Dominika Wylezalek, a scientist at the Centre for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH), has been selected for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It pays tribute to her…

A new pharmacological inhibitor can intervene in a central cell death mechanism that is responsible for the death of motor neurons and hence important for the progression of the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

With their interdisciplinary research project on interconnected, global crises, Dr Gordon Friedrichs and Dr Natalie Rauscher have been accepted into the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The two…

The start of the 2023/2024 winter semester has seen a new class of fellows take up their assignment at Heidelberg University’s Marsilius Kolleg. From October this year to September 2024, 13 Heidelberg academics from different…

Dr Jochen Apel is the new director of Heidelberg University Library. Having already worked there for over ten years, he was most recently head of the branch for Medicine and Natural Sciences on the Im Neuenheimer Feld campus. As…