Forum Scientiarum

Humboldt Lecture Series at Tübingen University

The Humboldt Lecture Series gives Humboldt fellows who spend some time at Tübingen University the opportunity to present their work to a broader faculty. It thereby provides a platform to discuss the research of some of the most excellent researchers from all over the world in an interdisciplinary context. Additionally, the Humboldt Lecture Series is meant to be a meeting point for all international scholars at Tübingen University.

The Humboldt Lectures are jointly organised by Welcome Center of Tübingen University, the Humboldt Club and Forum Scientiarum.

The lecture series is supported by Alexander vom Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation

Winter 2018/19

jeweils 18:30 Uhr im Hörsaal des Forum Scientiarum

7.11.2018, 6.30 p.m.

  • Welcoming address: Prof. Dr. Peter Grathwohl (Vice-Rector for Research, University of Tübingen)

  • Prof. Dr. Hervé Bocherens (Paleontology), University of Tübingen – Gigantopithecus: Life and Death of a Giant Ape
    → Abstract

5.12.2018, 6.30 p.m.

  • Dr. Kantapon Suraprasit (Paleontology), Chulalongkorn University, Thailand – The Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna of Thailand from a Paleontological Point of View
    → Abstract

  • Dr. Thomas Elston (Neuroscience), University of Otago, New Zealand – Adaptive Motivational Signals in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Ventral Tegmental Area.
    → Abstract and CV

9.1.2019, 6.30 p.m.

  • Prof. Dr. Lawrence Ryan (German Studies), University of Tübingen – Franz Kafka’s “Real” World: Dream or Nightmare?
    → Abstract and CV

  • Dr. Paula Maria Tribelli (Microbiology), University of Buenos Aires, Argentina – Identification of the Human Receptor for the “Staphylococcus Aureus” Lipoprotein-like (Lpl) Protein and Its Role in Cellular Invasion
    → Abstract and CV

6.2.2019, 6.30 p.m.

  • Dr. Martin Hodas (Condensed Matter Physics), Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia – Towards a New Generation of Hybrid Electronics: Organic Semiconductors on 2D Materials
    → Abstract and CV

  • Dr. Deborah Kronenberg (Cellular Neuroscience), University of Cambridge, UK – Immune Cells in the Ageing Brain
    → Abstract and CV