The Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study

The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (Institute of Advanced Studies) is an academically independent institution that is funded by the Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald Foundation. The Institute is intended to assist outstanding research and realize projects in interdisciplinary and international co-operation.

The academic program of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg centres on inviting academics to Greifswald to carry out research within the Alfried Krupp Fellows program, holding academic lectures, conferences, symposia and summer schools, and organizing postgraduate programs and interdisciplinary working groups.

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New cohort of Fellows for 2026/27

New cohort of Fellows for 2026/27

Eleven researchers, eleven projects and a wide range of scientific questions: the new cohort of Alfried Krupp Fellows for the 2026/27 academic year has been announced. The researchers will come to Greifswald for six or twelve months to devote themselves to their research projects at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg. Their research will focus, amongst other things, on the development of artificial muscles, new approaches to tuberculosis vaccines, Hannah Arendt as a historical figure, and health inequalities.
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