Almut Arneth, Marietta Auer and Stefanie Dehnen among recipients of the...
The AcademiaNet members are honoured for their research on ecosystems and climate change, legal history and theory, and metal cluster synthesis.
View ArticleRita Groß-Hardt and collaborators secure €2.5 million from the European...
The money will go towards a project on climate change-resistant plants with industry partners Aardevo and KWS.
View Article14 AcademiaNet members secure ERC Proof of Concept grants
The grants will be used to explore commercialisation of existing projects, ranging from RNA technology to textiles made with artificial spider silk.
View Article‘We must break the continuing shame and embarrassment’
Roughly half of the world’s population will experience menstruation, yet we still don’t know enough about what a ‘normal’ period is. We spoke to AcademiaNet member Professor Hilary Critchley about why...
View ArticleMadeline Lancaster and Sonja Vernes win Blavatnik Awards
The prizes were given for the development of mini-brains and the investigation of the biological bases of language, respectively.
View ArticleSilvia Arber has been awarded the 2022 Brain Prize
She receives the prize for mapping movement-controlling neurons in the brain and spine.
View ArticleMargarita Díaz-Andreu given the 2021 Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Award
The committee highlighted her contributions to archaeoacoustics and gender studies within archaeology
View ArticleUlla Eriksson-Zetterquist joins the Swedish RISE Research Council
The organization management scholar will advise on research directions along with fellow council members
View Article‘It’s about survival’
In a world facing a multitude of environmental crises, Professor Nora Räthzel from the University of Umeå wants to centre the experience of labourers who often go unheard. We spoke to her about what...
View ArticleKirsten Bobzin to head new DFG Priority Programme
The consortium will focus on high-performance coated tools
View ArticleRuth Lehmann wins the Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
The developmental geneticist is recognised for her research on germ cells and her mentoring of young female scientists
View ArticleErin Schuman has won the 2022 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
Her recent contributions to neuroscience and her status as an inspiring role model landed her the award
View Article‘We didn’t come this far to only come this far’
The Volkswagen Foundation is now funding AcademiaNet’s Clubs. We connected with their Head of the Funding, Dr. Henrike Hartmann, and Secretary General, Dr. Georg Schütte, for a talk about creating...
View ArticleVeronika Kalmus and Kairit Tammets win prizes for education research papers
The two AcademiaNet members’ papers both focused on technology use in a school setting
View ArticleFour AcademiaNet members elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal...
Sandra Knapp, Susan Lea, Maria Leptin and Irene Miguel-Aliaga have all made “outstanding contributions” to their respective scientific fields or science as a whole
View ArticleEmily Flashman wins Norman Heatley Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
The chemist was chosen for her work on oxygen-sensing enzymes
View Article‘The most striking difference about the human brain is just how big it is’
Madeline Lancaster is known as the inventor of brain organoids, also called ‘mini brains’. We caught up with her for a conversation about how we can study psychiatric conditions in a tiny clump of...
View ArticleRegine Ortlepp’s heating-beat project wins the 2022 German Sustainability...
The project is coming up with solutions to debilitating summer heat in cities, in collaboration with people that live there
View ArticleKeele University gives Dame Rachel Griffith an honorary doctorate
The economist will receive a Doctorate of Letters for contributions to society
View ArticleSix AcademiaNet members have become EMBO members
Chosen for their ‘outstanding achievements’, the researchers will join a select community of leading life scientists
View ArticleMarietta Auer elected as new Vice President of the DFG
She joins four other AcademiaNet members on DFG’s Executive Committee, incl. DFG President Katja Becker
View Article‘It becomes too easy to look at women as a deviation’
Prof Elin Bjarnegård from Uppsala University in Sweden researches gender in politics – for example, she wants to understand the role of masculinities in war and peace, and what happens when political...
View ArticlePascale Ehrenfreund awarded the 2022 COSPAR Harrie Massey Award
The Austrian astrophysicist was honoured for her "outstanding contributions" to space research.
View ArticleRegina Palkovits on equality in science: “It’s about giving young people a...
AcademiaNet was created as a way to address the gender imbalance among senior academics. Looking back over the past decade, what’s changed? We spoke to Prof. Regina Palkovits, one of our first members,...
View ArticleAnna Lawson elected Fellow of the British Academy
The legal scholar, whose research examines unequal access in society for people with disabilities, is part of a record intake of women.
View ArticleRiikka Rinnan to start new Center of Excellence at the University of Copenhagen
The Center will investigate the biology of volatile substances and how it responds to climate change.
View ArticleAgneta Nordberg receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s...
The neuroscientist is known for her ground-breaking work on amyloid PET imaging and the neurotransmitter acetylcholine
View ArticleProfessor Dame Ottoline Leyser receives Croonian Medal and Lecture from the...
She was chosen for her ground-breaking work on plant hormones and her dedication to gender equality in science
View ArticleUrsula Keller has won the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist, known as the...
The physicist is honoured for her work on ultrafast lasers, including systems now used in manufacturing, communications technology and surgery
View ArticleFour AcademiaNet members secure funding from the Swedish Brain Foundation
Their projects cover Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, depression and neonatal brain development
View ArticleMichaela Raggam-Blesch awarded the Leon Zelman Prize in Vienna
The historian is honoured for her work documenting and remembering the Holocaust and ‘giving victims a voice’
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