Demystifying the Humboldt Research Fellowships

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Are you considering applying for a Humboldt Research Fellowship? Unsure of what to include in your application? Want to learn more from those have experience of applying for and assessing the fellowships?

 

Join us on November 15th 2024 at 1530 UTC! This event will focus on applying for the Humboldt Research Fellowship, and highlighting the Henrietta Herz Fellowship, and we hope to set you up for application success! This event is totally free.

 

Register here: https://forms.gle/fccPkb7hiKPPqxuXA

 

You can find the start time in your timezone using this link.

 

This is the first time ESWN has run an event focused on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation schemes, and we are looking forward to hosting this inaugural event.

 

*****PLEASE NOTE: This event is ESWN led and facilitated, and is not affiliated with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation*****

 

Speakers

We will be joined by five speakers who either hold a fellowship/have held a fellowship previously, and who have experience assessing the fellowship applications. One of our speakers is also from the Humboldt Foundation.

  • Minu Treesa Abraham (Norwegian Technical Institute, Norway) 
  • Susanne Crewell (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
  • Antje Schwalb (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
  • Skye Yunshu Tian (Universität Bonn, Germany) 
  • Anne Kremer, Programme Director Geosciences (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

 

Agenda

The agenda for the event will be confirmed soon – it will include an introduction to the Humboldt Research Fellowship and Henrietta Herz Fellowship, as well as a panel discussion, and breakout room segment where attendees can meet our speakers in a breakout room.

 

Recording

All parts of this event (except the breakout rooms) will be recorded for asynchronous participation. A link will be made available to participants after the event.  

 

Accessibility

This webinar will be fully closed captioned and will use colour blind friendly graphics. 

We are excited for you to join us!

If you have any questions please contact us via events [at] eswnonline [dot] org

Best wishes,

The Earth Science Women’s Network Professional Development and Networking Committee

 

Speaker bios

Minu Treesa Abraham (Norwegian Technical Institute, Norway) 

Dr. Minu Treesa Abraham is a Geotechnical Research Engineer at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo. She was formerly an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, and her PhD thesis earned the IGS-Prof. Leonard’s Annual Award 2022. She received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2021 and was featured in AGU’s Early Career Research Spotlight in June 2022. Dr. Abraham mentors young researchers in the 2024 Females Forward Humboldt Mentoring Program and she also serves as an editor for several esteemed journals including the Geological Journal, Gondwana Research, and Landslides.

 

Susanne Crewell (Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Professor Dr. Susanne Crewell holds the professorship for Meteorology at the University of Cologne. Her research is directed at a better understanding of the atmospheric water cycle by exploiting novel observation techniques from space, aircraft, and ground to bridge observations and modeling on different scales. She is involved in several major collaborative research projects and frequently acts as a reviewer for different science organizations, e.g., the German Research Foundation, EU, and Humboldt Foundation.

 

Antje Schwalb (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)

Professor Dr. AntjeSchwalb is a geologist interested in the interactions between climate, landscape and humans, and her team works at the intersection of geo- and biosciences. They use remains of microfossils as bioindicators and geochemical proxies, archived in lake sediments, to assess the impacts of climate change and humans on aquatic ecosystems over time. Their research regions include Central Europe, the Americas and Central Asia. More recently, they have started to establish collaboration with Engineering and the humanities. Antje believes this is important for both her and her team, as being exposed to other perspectives fuels creativity and increases innovation in research and teaching.

 

Skye Yunshu Tian (Universität Bonn, Germany) 

Dr. Skye Yunshu Tian is a paleobiologist working primarily on the Cenozoic marine ostracods. She received her PhD from the University of Hong Kong, and she is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn supported by a Humboldt Fellowship. Skye is interested in using fossil ostracods as a model proxy to understand the interactions between past environmental changes and biotic responses. Her recent research focuses on the Cenozoic evolution of tropical shallow-marine biodiversity and biogeography.

 

Anne Kremer, Programme Director Geosciences (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)

“I am a geographer by training and have been working in the Selection Department of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation since 2011. In my part-time position, I am responsible for the Georg Forster Research Fellowship Program as well as for special matters concerning applications and nominations related to GeoSciences in general. Before joining the Humboldt-Foundation, I worked for an NGO in the field of development cooperation, being responsible for smaller project with and in South-East-Asia. The topic of my PhD theses was related to Urban Environmental Health, for which I conducted a survey with 360 women in Pondicherry, India. In my free time, I volunteer in managing a local library.”