Overview of Focus Groups
Each year there can be up to three focus groups. To preserve enough flexibility to accommodate the unexpected, the Wissenschaftskolleg has made it a rule that less than half of a year's Fellows are invited within the framework of focus groups.
2019/2020
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Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology
Johanna Mappes
2018/2019
2017/2018
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Family History and Social Change in West Africa
Carola Lentz
2016/2017
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Causes and Implications of Adult Sex Ratio Variation in Vertebrates
Peter M. Kappeler, Tamás Székely
2015/2016
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Biological, Cultural and Social Origins of Language
Luc Steels
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Colouration in Animals
Tim Caro
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Pain
Victoria A. Braithwaite
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Russia: The Rule of Law in Question
Tatiana Borisova, Jane Burbank
2014/2015
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Gene Regulation and Organismal Diversity
Steven A. Frank
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Tibetan Genealogies
Guntram Hazod
2013/2014
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Cancer Evolution
Michael Hochberg
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Origin and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits
Gerald S. Wilkinson
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Quantification
Wendy Espeland
2011/2012
2010/2011
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Limits to Disease Control – Failures in Disease
Janis Antonovics
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Professional Dilemmas of Medical Practice in Africa
Steven Feierman, Julie Livingston
2009/2010
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Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information
Ulrich Schollwöck
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Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication
Vincent M. Janik, Klaus Zuberbühler
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Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks
Harald Wolf
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Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Manfred D. Laubichler, Robert E. Page, Jr.
2008/2009
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Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis
Cynthia F. Moss
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Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Axel Meyer
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Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control
Holk Cruse
2007/2008
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Constitution Beyond the Nation State
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Evolutionary Medicine
Randolph M. Nesse
2006/2007
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Evolutionary Immunology
Joachim Kurtz, Paul Schmid-Hempel
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ImageScience - Media and Politics
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Phylogenetic Biology
Wayne Paul Maddison
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Religious Transformation Processes in the Present
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
2005/2006
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Inner Model Theory
John Steel
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Religion and Contingency
Hans Joas
2004/2005
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Bildwissenschaft/ImageScience
Horst Bredekamp
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Conflict Resolution in Biological Systems
Francis L. W. Ratnieks
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Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
Hajo Grundmann
2003/2004
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Cultural Mobility
Stephen J. Greenblatt
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Development of Spatial Cognition
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Islamic and Jewish Hermeneutics as Cultural Critique
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Science and the Public
2002/2003
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Brain Evolution
Georg Striedter
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Nutrition
David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson
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The Sciences of Risk
Alex Kacelnik
2001/2002
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Neural Control and Locomotion
Ansgar Büschges
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Social History of Muslim Societies - Social History of Western Societies
Beshara Doumani, David Warren Sabean
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Social Norms and Economic Behaviour
Ernst Fehr
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The Sciences of Risk
Alex Kacelnik
2000/2001
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Demography and the Evolution of Eusociality
Raghavendra Gadagkar
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South Asian Historiography
David Shulman
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Spatial Cognition
Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler
1999/2000
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AGORA Work - Knowledge Cohesion
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Neurolinguistics
Angela Friederici
1998/1999
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Biomimetics
Daniel Robert
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Cultural Foundations of Economic Reality
Hansjörg Siegenthaler
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The Meaning of Time in Quantum Theory
John Stuart Briggs
1997/1998
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Parallel Processing and the Binding Problem
Andreas K. Engel, Rainer Goebel
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Visual Ecology and Evolution
Eric J. Warrant
1996/1997
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Active Vision
Mandyam V. Srinivasan
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Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts
Andrew Pomiankowski
1995/1996
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Evolution of Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Environmental Change
Kenneth J. Hsü
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Models as mediators: The Role of Models in Physics and Economics
Brigitte Falkenburg
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Spatio-Temporal Processes in Ecolocial Communities
Andreas Diekmann, Richard Law
1993/1994
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Biodiversity
Richard I. Vane-Wright
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Collective Intelligence: Self-Organizing Superorganism Systems
Scott Camazine
1992/1993
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Physics of Disordered Systems
Hans A. Weidenmüller