2012 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award: Humboldt Foundation looking for talented young researchers

2012 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award: Humboldt Foundation looking for talented young researchers

Exceptionally promising young researchers from outside Germany can apply to the Humboldt Foundation for one of the most highly endowed honours in German science, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. The award for outstanding academic achievement is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and is valued at 1.65 million euros.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants the award to young international scientists and scholars in any discipline who have distinguished themselves through special talent and a creative approach to research.

For a period of five years, award winners can build up a working group at a research institution in Germany of their won choice and conduct an ambitious research project there. Applicants should have completed their doctorate with an outstanding result no more than six years ago and already have publications published by recognised international journals or publishers. The deadline for applications is 1 September 2011. The award seeks to engage talented international scientists and scholars in collaboration with German researchers at the beginning of a promising career. The award was first presented in 2002 and is named after the Russian mathematician Sofja Kovalevskaja, who completed her doctorate at Göttingen University in 1874.

Contact: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Dr. Oliver Lange
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More information: www.humboldt-foundation.de/SKP