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NewsExperienceEinstein Center Population Diversity

Freedom of Science, Diversity, and Public Health

Scientific freedom is under increasing pressure. At an event organized by the Einstein Center for Population Diversity and the Hertie School, Einstein Professor Beate Kampmann and our Executive Board members Cornelia Woll and Martin Rennert will discuss the effects of this issue.
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NewsExperience

Truth, Trust, and Science

How do AI, misinformation, and data-driven politics influence science? The lecture series "Science in Doubt" at the Charité will begin with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Philip Howard, University of Oxford. A cooperation by BUA, Stifterverband and Hanns Martin Schleyer-Stiftung.
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NewsFoundation

Farewell from the Board of Trustees

Antje Boetius is stepping down from her position as Vice Chair of our Board of Trustees on 1 May 2025 to focus on her new role at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California. We’re truly grateful for her commitment to the foundation and wish her lots of success in her new role!
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NewsEinstein Foundation AwardResearch quality

Setting the Standard for Scientific Images

Helena Jambor founded “PixelQuality” to establish best practices for publishing scientific images — a contribution that earned her the 2024 Einstein Foundation Early Career Award. Now, Nature Portfolio begins trialling their checklists for four of its own publications.
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NewsNevan Krogan

Cross-border cooperation

Infectious disease, autism and autoimmune disorders will be at the core of a new initiative being launched by the UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute and Freie Universität Berlin. Einstein Visiting Fellow Nevan Krogan explains in an interview what it's all about.
Robbert Dijkgraaf
NewsFoundationEinstein Foundation Award

Without Einstein we would all be lost

Speaking at the 2025 ceremony of the Einstein Foundation, physicist and former Dutch Minister of Education Robbert Dijkgraaf praised Albert Einstein not only as a brilliant scientist, but also as a moral role model.
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Change in the Board of the Einstein Foundation

The Einstein Foundation Berlin welcomes Prof Dr Cornelia Woll, President of the Hertie School, as a new member of its Executive Board. This appointment by the Foundation Council as of 1 January 2025 also marks the departure of the Deputy Chair of the Board, Prof Dr Dorothea Kübler (WZB).
Podiumsdiskussion mit Cecilia Clementi
NewsCecilia Clementi

'l’Onorificenza Ordine della Stella' for Einstein Professor Cecilia Clementi

The biomimetic computer simulation expert was awarded the 'Order of the Star of Italy' on 19 November. The ceremony took place at the Italian Embassy as part of a 'Celebration of Italian Scientific Excellence'.
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NewsPressEinstein Foundation Award

€500,000 prize for research quality awarded

For the fourth time, the Einstein Foundation Berlin honours the advancement of research quality: The Individual Award goes to Dutch microbiologist and whistleblower Elisabeth Bik. PubPeer receives the Institutional Award and the Early Career Award goes to PixelQuality.
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NewsEinstein Center Population Diversity

Breaking new ground in wealth research

Funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant, the ‘Wealthtraject’ project will start on 1 Dec with Philipp Lersch as project leader. He is PI at the Einstein Centre Population Diversity, research group leader at DIW, Professor of Sociology at HU and one of the ‘100 Top Scientists in Berlin 2024’ according to the TAGESSPIEGEL.
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Inaugural performance by Claire Cunningham

Scottish choreographer and performer Claire Cunningham, Einstein Professor of Choreography, Dance and Disability Arts at the HZT, will present her new solo evening ‘Songs of the Wayfarer’ at Hebbel am Ufer on 14 November as part of the ‘NO LIMITS’ festival. Photo: Sven Hagolani
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National Academy of Sciences partners with Einstein Foundation

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences/Washington has entered into a partnership with the Einstein Foundation Berlin for the Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research. The international prize is presented annually to recognize outstanding researchers and institutions whose work helps “to advance the quality and robustness of research findings — whether they are breaking new ground, using and testing innovative methods, or collecting and sharing their data in novel ways.”