spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Simm, coordinator: Dr. Patrick Rainer Winterhalter (funding 2016-2025) Ageing leads to impairment of tissue homeostasis and functional decline of organs and represents a main risk factor for prevalent diseases such as cardiovascular disease and neurodegeneration in developed countries. To devise therapies aimed at improving the health state of the elderly, a […]
Month Archive for January 2020
22. Jan 2020
Research Training Group “ProMoAge – Protein Modification: A Key Mechanism for Ageing” (GRK 2155)
17. Jan 2020
8th call for applications for the mentoring program for female postdocs
The mentoring program for female postdocs at the Universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig will start its 8th round in June 2020. It is targeted at highly-qualified female Postdocs, researchers undertaking a ‘habilitation’, junior scientist group leaders and junior professors in all disciplines at these universities who were awarded their doctorate at least 2 years […]
17. Jan 2020
European Training Network “Joint Training on Numerical Modelling of Highly Flexible Structures for Industrial Applications”
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Martin Arnold, coordinator: Sarah Keil(funding 2019-2023) Highly flexible slender structures like yarns, cables, hoses or ropes are essential parts of high-performance engineering systems. The complex response of such structures in real operational conditions is far beyond the capabilities of current modelling tools that are at the core of modern product development cycles. […]
10. Jan 2020
Research training group “Intermediation and Translation in Transition”
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Dinkelaker, coordinator: Dr. Johanna Leicht(funded by Hans Böckler Foundation (HBS) 2019-2022) The Research Training Group “Vermittlung und Übersetzung im Wandel – Relationale Praktiken der Differenzbearbeitung angesichts neuer Grenzen der Teilhabe an Wissen und Arbeit” explores changes in practices and settings of intermediation and translation unfolding in the context of advancing digitalisation, […]
10. Jan 2020
IAMO Graduate School
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thomas Herzfeld, coordinator: Dr. Franziska Schaft Internationally oriented research in agricultural and food economics and exchange of ideas between academic, business, and political communities are in the focus. Main research areas are policies and institutions, natural resource use, livelihoods in rural areas, organization of agriculture and agricultural value chains. [read more] With […]
10. Jan 2020
Doctoral program “Language – Literature – Society”
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andrea Jäger, coordinator: Johannes Brambora The contents of the study program are designed to make the interdisciplinary dialogue from the individual philologies fruitful for an understanding of modern societies in terms of cultural studies and to relate to discourse patterns of different language areas and cultures. Within the framework of the offered […]
10. Jan 2020
International Graduate School “The obligation of societal norms”
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heiner F. Klemme, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pečar(funding since 2018) The research of the international graduate school focuses on a central inter- and transdisciplinary question: How are political, ethical, legal, religious, cultural, or aesthetic norms and values made binding or acknowledged as binding for individuals within a society? Connected with this central question, […]
10. Jan 2020
Hallesches Doctoral Certificate Programme in Medicine (HaPKoM)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Michael Bucher, coordinator: Michael Marquardt(founded in 2012) Dissertation topics in particular (i.e. but not exclusively) in the area of the two research foci of the Medical Faculty are cancer research/ molecular medicine of signal transduction and clinical epidemiology and nursing research. [read more] The doctoral certificate program comprises all structured doctoral programs […]
9. Jan 2020
IWH Doctoral Programme in Economics (IWH-DPE)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Holtemöller, coordinator: Dr. Andrej Drygalla The course program is a structured curriculum that provides doctoral students with an outstanding training in the fields related to the IWH Research Profile „From Transition to European Integration“. The program comprises mandatory Frontiers Courses in the core fields of economics, optional required Special Courses in selected […]
9. Jan 2020
International doctoral program “Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business”
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Philipp Schreck , coordinator: PD Dr. Lisa Schmalzried (funding period 2014-2022) by Karl Schlecht Foundation (KSG) How can the economy become part of the solution to social challenges? What shape should the economic system take for this purpose? What responsibilities should companies be held accountable for? And what defines good leadership? – The […]