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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

  • Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology

    Johanna Mappes

2018/2019

  • Syngenomics: Evolution − from Conflict to Cooperation to Mutualism
  • The Major Evolutionary Transitions in Organismality

2017/2018

  • Family History and Social Change in West Africa

    Carola Lentz

2016/2017

  • Causes and Implications of Adult Sex Ratio Variation in Vertebrates

    Peter M. Kappeler, Tamás Székely

2015/2016

  • Biological, Cultural and Social Origins of Language

    Luc Steels

  • Colouration in Animals

    Tim Caro

  • Pain

    Victoria A. Braithwaite

  • Russia: The Rule of Law in Question

    Tatiana Borisova, Jane Burbank

2014/2015

  • Gene Regulation and Organismal Diversity

    Steven A. Frank

  • Tibetan Genealogies

    Guntram Hazod

2013/2014

  • Cancer Evolution

    Michael Hochberg

  • Origin and Evolution of Exaggerated Traits

    Gerald S. Wilkinson

  • Quantification

    Wendy Espeland

2012/2013

  • Quantum Mechanical Processes in Biological Systems

2011/2012

  • Adaptive Plasticity
  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Jewish and Christian Liturgy during the First Post-Christian Centuries

    Israel J. Yuval

2010/2011

  • Limits to Disease Control – Failures in Disease

    Janis Antonovics

  • Professional Dilemmas of Medical Practice in Africa

    Steven Feierman, Julie Livingston

2009/2010

  • Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information

    Ulrich Schollwöck

  • Complexity and Flexibility in Animal Communication

    Vincent M. Janik, Klaus Zuberbühler

  • Functional and Structural Constraints in the Evolution of Sensorimotor Networks

    Harald Wolf

  • Social Insects as a Model System for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

    Manfred D. Laubichler, Robert E. Page, Jr.

2008/2009

  • Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

    Cynthia F. Moss

  • Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

    Axel Meyer

  • Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

    Holk Cruse

2007/2008

  • Constitution Beyond the Nation State

  • Evolutionary Medicine

    Randolph M. Nesse

2006/2007

  • Evolutionary Immunology

    Joachim Kurtz, Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • ImageScience - Media and Politics

  • Phylogenetic Biology

    Wayne Paul Maddison

  • Religious Transformation Processes in the Present

    Friedrich Wilhelm Graf

2005/2006

  • Inner Model Theory

    John Steel

  • Religion and Contingency

    Hans Joas

2004/2005

  • Bildwissenschaft/ImageScience

    Horst Bredekamp

  • Conflict Resolution in Biological Systems

    Francis L. W. Ratnieks

  • Infectious Diseases Epidemiology

    Hajo Grundmann

2003/2004

  • Cultural Mobility

    Stephen J. Greenblatt

  • Development of Spatial Cognition

  • Islamic and Jewish Hermeneutics as Cultural Critique

  • Science and the Public

2002/2003

  • Brain Evolution

    Georg Striedter

  • Nutrition

    David Raubenheimer, Stephen J. Simpson

  • The Sciences of Risk

    Alex Kacelnik

2001/2002

  • Neural Control and Locomotion

    Ansgar Büschges

  • Social History of Muslim Societies - Social History of Western Societies

    Beshara Doumani, David Warren Sabean

  • Social Norms and Economic Behaviour

    Ernst Fehr

  • The Sciences of Risk

    Alex Kacelnik

2000/2001

  • Demography and the Evolution of Eusociality

    Raghavendra Gadagkar

  • South Asian Historiography

    David Shulman

  • Spatial Cognition

    Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler

1999/2000

  • AGORA Work - Knowledge Cohesion

  • Neurolinguistics

    Angela Friederici

1998/1999

  • Biomimetics

    Daniel Robert

  • Cultural Foundations of Economic Reality

    Hansjörg Siegenthaler

  • The Meaning of Time in Quantum Theory

    John Stuart Briggs

1997/1998

  • Parallel Processing and the Binding Problem

    Andreas K. Engel, Rainer Goebel

  • Visual Ecology and Evolution

    Eric J. Warrant

1996/1997

  • Active Vision

    Mandyam V. Srinivasan

  • Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts

    Andrew Pomiankowski

1995/1996

  • Evolution of Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Environmental Change

    Kenneth J. Hsü

  • Models as mediators: The Role of Models in Physics and Economics

    Brigitte Falkenburg

  • Spatio-Temporal Processes in Ecolocial Communities

    Andreas Diekmann, Richard Law

1993/1994

  • Biodiversity

    Richard I. Vane-Wright

  • Collective Intelligence: Self-Organizing Superorganism Systems

    Scott Camazine

1992/1993

  • Physics of Disordered Systems

    Hans A. Weidenmüller

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