Along with researchers who work on individual projects during their stay at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Kolleg has in the past also regularly invited small focus groups of up to five persons to conduct research on a common topic.
The funding format was discontinued.
2019/2020
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Integrating Mimicry into Community Ecology
Johanna Mappes
2018/2019
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Syngenomics: Evolution − from Conflict to Cooperation to Mutualism
Michael J. Wade
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The Major Evolutionary Transitions in Organismality
Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma
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
2012/2013
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Quantum Mechanical Processes in Biological Systems
Atac Imamoglu, K. Birgitta Whaley
2011/2012
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Adaptive Plasticity
Mark E. Viney
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Evolutionary Anthropology
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
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Jewish and Christian Liturgy during the First Post-Christian Centuries
Israel J. Yuval
2010/2011
2009/2010
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Classical Simulation of Quantum Systems: Classical Information vs. Quantum Information
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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
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