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Scholarship program
Postdoctoral scholarship program for 2023

Applications for scholarships are open until 1 October 2022 via the online application portal.

Berlin Colloquium
Living safely in the city of the future

Urbanization is a key trend of our century. This is evidenced not only by the rapid growth of megacities in many regions of the world, but also by the development of conurbations and entire metropolitan ...

Dialog in the Museum
Architects of the Universe: How black holes influence the evolution of galaxies

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek provides an exciting insight into her current research using real data from the James Webb telescope ...

Moment for Research
Malaria Pathogens in the Blood – Multiplying and Hiding

Julien Guizetti gives an insight into his research on malaria.

Publication
Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk

New book publication with research results from the "Villa Ladenburg" funding project: Open access publication by Prof. Dr. Thomas Winkle on autonomous driving.

Board of Trustees
Prof. Dr. Tereza Tykvová appointed to the Board of Trustees

The economist Prof. Dr. Tereza Tykvová is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Daimler and Benz Foundation.

Press Releases
Do gut bacteria determine whether a drug works?

Interview with Dr. Michael Zimmermann, biochemist at EMBL and Daimler and Benz Foundation Fellow.

Moment for Research
Microbial Natural Products, Their Structures, Tasks, and Origin

Christine Beemelmanns gives an insight into modern natural products research in her lecture.

Bertha Benz Price 2022
Award for Dr.-Ing. Renate Sachse

For her outstanding dissertation the engineering scientist receives the Bertha Benz Prize, which is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Bertha Benz Lecture 2022
Violence and Social Development

Prof. Dr. Anke Hoeffler will give this year’s Bertha Benz Lecture on Violence and Society on the occasion of the presentation the 2022 Bertha Benz Prize.

Science News
Congratulations from the Foundation

The Daimler and Benz Foundation regularly has cause to be pleased with its scholarship-holders and their successful research work. Law scholar Prof. Dr. Hanjo Hamann was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2022 ...

New member of the Board of Trustees
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hillmer takes up position on the Board of Trustees

The physicist Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hillmer, who has headed the Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics at the University of Kassel since 1999, is now the new face on the Board of Trustees of the Daimler and Benz Foundation.

Moment for Research
Krupp and History in the 1950s

Eva-Maria Roelevink gives an insight into the public relations of an industrial company in the early post-war years.

Publication
Annual Report 2021

The current Annual Report 2021 of the Daimler and Benz Foundation has been published.

Ladenburg Roundtable
Legal Didactics – Review and Outlook

Legal studies in Germany have not undergone any sustainable reforms in recent years. Alt-hough university qualification courses are offered, most students are continuing ...

Moment for Research
Gut Feelings at the Press of a Button: Can Motivation be Regulated by Stimulation of the Vagus Nerve?

Nils Kroemer from the University of Tübingen (now at the University of Bonn) on the question of whether the desire for healthy food can be controlled.

Publication
Robots in Healthcare

Special publication of the Daimler and Benz Foundation on the subject of care robots in the current issue on the subject of "Artificial Intelligence".

Moment for Research
Politics with History: Perspectives on Russia

Félix Krawatzek from the Centre for East European and International Studies about understanding Russian-German History.

Ladenburg Research Networks
Who will get how much water?

Water is one of the most important raw materials on earth. But what if it becomes increasingly scarce as a result of climate change and future weather extremes? An interdisciplinary group of scientists ...

Scholarship program
Scholarship Holders in 2022

The Daimler and Benz Foundation presents the eleven scholarship holders of the scholarship program for postdocs 2022 ...

Alumni Network
The alumni portal of the Daimler and Benz Foundation goes online

We take pleasure in introducing you to the Alumni Portal of the Daimler and Benz Foundation. This portal gives you the opportunity to get in touch among yourselves or to search for other scholarship-holders according to specific criteria.

Moment for Research
Influencing shock wave-induced separation – and its relevance for air and space transportation systems

Anne-Marie Schreyer from the Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Institute of Aerodynamics at RWTH Aachen University on Influencing shock wave-induced separation.

Moment for Research
Ways out of the antibiotic crisis with synthetic biology

Hajo Kries from the Hans Knöll Institute about ways out of the antibiotic crisis.

Moment for Research
The delegitimization of international organizations

Tobias Lenz from Leuphana University Lüneburg on the falling acceptance of international organizations and what we can do about it.