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13 unusual facts about Alexander von Humboldt Foundation


A A Mamun

He then performed postdoctoral studies in Germany and the UK, under an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Commonwealth Post-doctoral Research Fellowship.

Amadou Koné

In 1990, he left the University of Abidjan for Germany, thanks to a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Anna Krylov

In 2011, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society; and she won a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for developing robust electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species, and creative use of ab initio theory to understand the chemistry of bimolecules, reaction intermediates, and photoinduced processes.

Hans G. Hornung

He worked in the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne (1962–63, and 1965–67), and in the Physics Department of the Australian National University (1967–80), with a sabbatical year as a Humboldt Fellow in Darmstadt, Germany, 1974.

Jaroslav Miller

He was twice appointed a fellow of the prestigious German scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster) and the American Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2004, 2010 Wolfenbüttel).

Paul Magdalino

He is a fellow of: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in Early Christian Humanism, Catholic University of America; Alexander-von-Humboldt Stipendium at Frankfurt and Munich; Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University.

Peter Gollwitzer

He has won a Max Planck Research Award (1990) and a TransCoop Award (1994), which is given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Peter W. Marx

With the completion of a research project for the Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he became a visiting scholar at the Columbia University in New York City for three expanded research stays between 2004 and 2006.

Petru Dumitriu

After school in Romania, Dumitriu studied philopsophy at Munich University with a Humboldt scholarship, but his studies were interrupted in 1944 when Romania changed sides in the Second World War.

Raffaele Farina

For the following three years, he worked on his specialization at the German Foundation "Humboldt" in Freiburg and Bonn.

Robert Gellately

Professor Gellately has won numerous research awards, including grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

William Burke-White

In 2008 Burke-White won a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Wolfgang Zapf

From 1987 to 1909 Zapf was co-editor of the „Zeitschrift für Soziologie“, was an advisory member of Social Indicators Research and grant evaluator of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.


Hans Dresig

He is a member in Committee of Drive Technology in the Association of German Engineers (VDI), a advisor of “Alexander von Humboldt Foundation” and German Research Foundation (DFG).

Myqerem Tafaj

In 1999, Mr. Tafaj was awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which allowed him to return to Germany and work as a visiting professor at the University of Hohenheim.