Daimler und Benz Stiftung - Albert Einstein Scholarship

In cooperation with the Einstein Forum, the Foundation honors outstanding young academics from Germany and abroad for their interdisciplinary commitment. The Einstein Scholarship gives them the opportunity to realize research projects outside the field of their previous work. The scholarship includes a six-month sojourn on the grounds of the summer house of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) in Caputh, near Berlin.

Shyam Wuppuluri
Scholarship holder 2020

Much of today’s science is Reductionist (bottom-up) - behaviour on one level is explained by reducing it to components on a lower level. Chemistry is reduced to molecules, which are reduced to atoms, thereby to electrons, protons, and neutrons and so on. Ecosystems are explained in terms of populations of organisms ...

Ryan Ruby
Scholarship holder 2019

It is clear that, over the past decade, liberal democracy has undergone a profound crisis of legitimation. Confidence in liberal democratic institutions has plummeted as ideological competitors, mostly on the right, have upended liberal political establishments around the world ...

Nari Shelekpayev
Scholarship holder 2018

Opera is one of the most sophisticated forms of musical and artistic expression. Not only does it require professional musicians but it also necessitates a considerable infrastructure, such as performance and rehearsal spaces, decorations and so on. Last but not least opera requires ...