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Margaret C. Crofoot and Anke Hoeffler have both accepted a Humboldt Professorship at the University of Konstanz. They will work in the university's research priorities Collective Behaviour and Ecology and Social and Cognitive Sciences with a Special Focus on Inequality Research, respectively. With funding in the amount of up to five million euros for each researcher, the Humboldt Professorship is Germany’s most highly endowed research prize.

Der Konstanzer Politikwissenschaftler Philip Rathgeb erforscht die Ursachen sozialer Ungleichheit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt – Sein Buch zum Thema erscheint im Dezember

University of Konstanz chemist Professor Stefan Mecking publishes a new catalysis concept for obtaining polyester from castor oil

On 3 December 2018, the laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz published new findings of an experimental evolutionary project that ran for 30 years on the genomic mechanisms of sex determination in swordtail fish in the journal “Nature Communications”.

US-American animal behaviour researcher Professor Margaret C. Crofoot, PhD, to take up post as Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Konstanz

Professors Urs Fischbacher, Economics, and Iain Couzin, Biology, are named in the global Highly Cited Researchers List for 2018

Study from Konstanz demonstrates: If animal groups are disturbed this will have an impact on their collective behaviour – results may be transferable to other social units

Konstanz chemist Professor Stefan Mecking awarded funding for innovative refinery concept for microalgae lipids

Chemists in Konstanz inhibit the biosynthesis of a bacterial signal and, as a result, block the infectious properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most common germ found in health care facilities.