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 1/2023, March 2023 | German
Support through Mentoring
Especially at the beginning of their scientific careers, researchers face many questions that others have also asked themselves at some point. HAI research mentoring enables network members to link up so that mentees can benefit from the expertise of experienced mentors. [More...]
Additional ERC Grants for Heidelberg
The research work of Heidelberg historian Stefanie Gänger on the history of fever is being supported with a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) worth around 1.7 million euros. In addition, ERC Starting Grants with a total funding amount of around 7.5 million euros were awarded to five young researchers. [More...]
Research Training Group on Enmity
“Ambivalent Enmity” is the topic of a new Research Training Group at Heidelberg University based in the humanities and social sciences. The German Research Foundation allocates funding worth approximately 6,5 million euros to this group for training early-career researchers. [More...]
“I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg”
The Research Alumni Network lives by and with its members – 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:
Dr Vivianne Geraldes Ferreira, Professor of Law, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo/Brazil
Prof. Dr Marcin Moskalewicz, Philosopher, currently Heidelberg University, Heidelberg/Germany
Research Center for Aramean Studies
A new institution at Heidelberg University deals with Aramaic as a Semitic language as well as with all aspects of the social life of the Aramaeans – the Research Center for Aramean Studies. Besides research projects, the research unit organises courses and coordinates cooperation with researchers in Germany and abroad. [More...]
Looking into the early Universe
With the aid of the James Webb Space Telescope an international researcher team under Heidelberg leadership has discovered a cluster of galaxies and, at the same time, one of the densest known areas of galaxy formation in the early Universe. The observations could give information about how galaxies in the early Universe evolved into the cosmic network visible today. [More...]
More Visibility for innovative Women
The visibility of innovative work by women in science is the focus of a research project led by the economist Christiane Schwieren. The Equal Opportunities Commissioner of Heidelberg University wants to explore the functional mechanisms of “visibility”, identify inhibiting and conducive factors, and suggest structural changes. [More...]