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Hector Fellow Academy

We Create Syner­gies to Promote Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Cutting-Edge Research

The Hector Fellow Academy is a young academy of sciences. It offers a platform for network­ing, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary exchange, and mutual inspi­ra­tion to the laure­ates of the Hector Science Award. In addition, the Academy supports promis­ing young researchers.

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Symposia

Hector RCD Awards

Cutting-edge research

Funding Formats

   

News

25. March 2026 More Next News arrow_forward All News Obitu­ary Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Weule © Hector Fellow Academy 2. March 2026 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Video Portrait: Children’s Rights in Focus Christoph Klein’s Research on Rare Diseases and Child Participation 16. Febru­ary 2026 More Next News arrow_forward All News Hector Research Career Devel­op­ment Award Honors Young Researchers on Their Way to a Professorship Robert Hein, Viola Introini, and Maxim­il­ian Dax receive the award © Marco Schilling 2. Febru­ary 2026 More Next News arrow_forward All News Hector Science Award 2025 Focus on Swarm Behav­ior and Heart Healing – Hector Science Awards Go to Iain Couzin and Stefanie Dimmeler 3. Decem­ber 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Two Awards for Nikolaus Pfanner For His Findings on Cellu­lar Powerhouses © Kerstin Rolfes 26. Novem­ber 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Antje Boetius Inducted into the Order Pour le Mérite Great Honor for the Marine Biologist © Hector Fellow Academy 18. Novem­ber 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Highly Cited Researchers 2025 Ralf Barten­schlager, Immanuel Bloch, Patrick Cramer, Christoph Klein, and Dylan Nelson among the world’s most cited scientists © Marc Feix 15. October 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Keynote by Antje Boetius — 25th Jubilee of the Inter­na­tional Depart­ment of the KIT Expedi­tion Future 13. October 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Young Researcher Days 2025 in Karlsruhe Exchange, Inspi­ra­tion, and Team Spirit © Hector Fellow Academy / Fabry 15. Septem­ber 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Doctoral Positions in Biology, Medicine, and the History of Science Apply Now Until October 15! © Hector Fellow Academy / iStock 1. Septem­ber 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Hector RCD Award – Apply Now Until October 30! Support for Ambitious Young Researchers on the Path to a Professorship 21. August 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Publi­ca­tion by Xiaomeng Tian in Science Advances 18. July 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Science Evening 2025 in Retrospect © Shutter­stock 10. July 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Access Data for the Livestream 2025 The Hector Fellow Academy is contin­u­ing its series of Science Evenings held across Germany, this year with the focus on the question: 'Brain, Computer, and AI – Soon Hard to Distinguish?' © Univer­sität Heidel­berg / Kommu­nika­tion und Marketing 11. June 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News What School Doesn’t Teach Us About Mathematics New Video Portrait with Anna Wienhard 14. May 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Science Evening 2025: Brain, Computer, and AI – Soon Hard to Distinguish? © Matthias Tunger Photodesign 24. Febru­ary 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Matthias H. Tschöp Elected Presi­dent of LMU Munich Hector Science Award Winner to Take Office in October 2025 Hector Fellow Academy 5. Febru­ary 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Hector Research Career Devel­op­ment Award Goes to Three Excel­lent Female Scientists Carolin Müller, Carolin Schnei­der und Sofie Valk © Marco Schilling 27. January 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News Hector Science Award 2024 Cutting-Edge Research ‘Made in Germany’ — Stefanie Dehnen and Matthias H. Tschöp Are Honoured With the Presti­gious Award 13. January 2025 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Appli­ca­tion Phase for Doctoral Positions Appli­ca­tion portal opens on January 15, 2025 13. Novem­ber 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News Under­stand­ing Biology Better With Mathe­mat­i­cal Models New Video Portrait of Jens Timmer 28. October 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News HFA Welcomes Outstand­ing Young Researchers to Its Network Eleven Young Scien­tists Are Start­ing Their Doctoral Projects This Autumn © Hector Fellow Academy 9. October 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News Young Researcher Days 2024 Meeting of HFA Young Scien­tists in Konstanz 19. August 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Appli­ca­tion Period for the Hector RCD Award Appli­ca­tions are possi­ble form Septem­ber 1 to October 30, 2024 5. August 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News Kerstin Göpfrich awarded the Alfried Krupp Prize 2024 Award for Ground­break­ing Research in the Field of Synthetic Biology © Christoph Niemann 18. July 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News Sympo­sium 2024 in Retrospect Record­ing of the Event Now Avail­able on YouTube DZNE/Frommann 19. June 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News The Fight Against Alzheimer's New Video Portrait of Chris­t­ian Haass © Shadi Nashashibi 29. May 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Publi­ca­tion by Shadi Nashashibi Engineer­ing Graphene Photo­tran­sis­tors for High Dynamic Range Applications MPI for Medical Research 24. April 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News New Publi­ca­tion by Maja Illig in Nature Communications Triggered contrac­tion of self-assem­bled micron-scale DNA nanotube rings Depostipho­tos 10. April 2024 More Next News arrow_forward All News Sympo­sium 2024: Why do children and adults learn differently? Top-class program offers fasci­nat­ing insight into the world of the human brain and children's learn­ing mechanisms
   

Projects

Further devel­op­ment through interdisciplinarity

Collab­o­ra­tion and cross-border think­ing are crucial for scien­tific discov­er­ies. For this reason, the Hector Fellow Academy supports research projects that bring together scien­tists from differ­ent disci­plines and career stages.

— Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Projects

— Doctoral projects

— Alumni-Projects