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Leibniz Prize for Angkana Rüland
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Leibniz Prize for Angkana Rüland
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Unifest 2025

Research and Study at the University of Excellence in Bonn

The best minds have been able to develop their potential at the University of Excellence in Bonn for over 200 years. Find out more about our strategy in the competition for excellence1. Discover our Transdisciplinary Research Areas2. Get to know our cross-sectional tasks to improve equal opportunities3 and sustainability4 within the scientific community. Welcome to Bonn - welcome to the world.

Latest News
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Opening Up: Volkswagen Foundation Funds Two Projects at the University of Bonn6
Not one but two projects at the University of Bonn—on queer Islamic theology and culinary sensory analysis—have each been awarded funding of around €300,000 as part of the Volkswagen Foundation’s Open Up program. The aim of the Open Up funding initiative is to explore entirely new fields of science.
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Lena Funcke from the University of Bonn Awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize7
Clausius Junior Professor Dr. Lena Funcke from the University of Bonn is one of ten researchers to receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The prize, each endowed with €200,000, is considered by the DFG to be the most important award in Germany for researchers in the early stages of their careers.
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Bring on the portr[AI]ts!8
They have achieved great things – but their faces are often unknown: The exhibition "Missed Images" presents forgotten female scientists with realistic portraits, without ever having been photographed in this way. With the help of artificial intelligence, photographer Gesine Born created these images to honor important women and their achievements. Starting Thursday, April 10, 2025, at the initiative of the University of Bonn's Equal Opportunities Officer, Gabriele Alonso Rodriguez, twelve of these images will be on display at the Bonn University Museum.
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Stefan Grimme once again among the most cited researchers worldwide9
Prof. Dr. Stefan Grimme, theoretical chemist at the University of Bonn, is one of the “top ten” most cited researchers worldwide according to a recent evaluation by the platform topresearcherslist.com.
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Events
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Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
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Prüfen und Bewerten - Grundlagen (Basismodul) - Zusatztermin11
Zoom
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Bei diesem Workshop handelt es sich um eine Veranstaltung im Rahmen des hochschuldidaktischen Qualifizierungsprogramms des Bonner Zentrums für Hochschullehre ...
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Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
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Welcome Event for New International Students12
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Alle...
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
During this event the incoming team at the International Office would like to welcome all new international students to the University of Bonn. You will ...
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Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
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Democracy in America? Re-Reading Alexis de Tocqueville13
Zoom
04:00 PM - 07:00 PM
After Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and President Trump’s endorsement, key questions arise: How can the supposed erosion ...
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Interwoven Dependencies: Public keynote by Dr. Gabrielle Hosein14
Global Heritage Lab, ...
04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
"Nachorious: The Nach Gyal as Post Indenture Caribbean Feminist Jouvay Mas" This mas commemorates 180 years of the Indian ‘nautch girl’ – dancer, courtesan, ...
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  1. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/excellence-strategy
  2. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/transdisciplinary-research-areas
  3. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/equal-opportunity
  4. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/about-the-university/sustainable-university
  5. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/transfer-center-enacom
  6. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/057-2025
  7. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/lena-funcke-of-the-university-of-bonn-receives-the-heinz-maier-leibnitz-prize
  8. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/055-2025
  9. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/stefan-grimme-erneut-unter-den-meistzitierten-forschenden-weltweit
  10. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news
  11. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/pruefen-und-bewerten-grundlagen-basismodul-zusatztermin-2
  12. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/willkommensveranstaltung-fuer-neue-internationale-studierende
  13. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/democracy-in-america-re-reading-alexis-de-tocqueville
  14. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events/interwoven-dependencies-public-keynote-by-dr-gabrielle-hosein
  15. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/events
  16. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/international/ukrainewar
  17. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/about-the-university
  18. https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/excellence-strategy/clusters-of-excellence