The Research Alumni Network was created for current and former visiting researchers in Heidelberg as well as for researchers with a Heidelberg background working abroad. More than 400 members from a wide range of disciplines and countries is using this special service within Heidelberg Alumni International.
HAI is the central alumni initiative of the university - the worldwide network for all former and current students, researchers, administrative and teaching staff. Since 1996, HAI offers its members in collaboration with its professional, national and international alumni groups a varied assortment of services, information, activities and events online in HAInet, in Heidelberg, in Germany and worldwide.
2011-2019 supported by the Collaborative Project “International Research Marketing”
Issue 1/2022, February 2022 | German
New Faculty
Heidelberg University has a new Faculty of Engineering since fall 2021. The courses focus on innovative engineering approaches ranging from molecular biotechnology and molecular systems engineering to computer engineering and medical technology. [More...]
Doctoral Training in Heidelberg
Heidelberg University leads Germany in the number of doctoral students. The Research Training Group “Authority and Trust”, based in the field of interdisciplinary American Studies, will continue its successful work in a second funding period. [More...]
Fighting tumors with mathematics
With the help of mathematical modeling, an interdisciplinary research project aims to find information to decrypt hereditary colorectal cancer. For this purpose, mathematicians and tumor biologists from the University, the Heidelberg University Hospital, HITS and DKFZ are working together. [More...]
“I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg”
The Research Alumni Network lives by and with its members – visiting scientists that are currently conducting research in Heidelberg or have already concluded their stay and are continuing their work elsewhere. We will introduce two of these scientists in the edition of this newsletter:
Growth and dissolution
Spontaneous growth and dissolution of minerals in rocks on the Earth's crust are the focus of an experimental geoscientific research project at Heidelberg University. So far, these processes have never been systematically investigated. The experiment’s results could provide important insights for earthquake and materials research. [More...]
Corona-driven Stress
In the early stage of the Corona pandemic, health care workers in ambulatory care were particularly stressed. As a corresponding study conducted by Heidelberg Sports Science shows, tailor-made coping strategies are needed to counteract pandemic-related stressors. [More...]
Training for neuromorphic systems
On the road to artificial intelligence, spiking neural networks imitating natural nervous systems hold great promise. A German-Swiss research team has developed and successfully implemented an algorithm that can train such systems. [More...]