With some of its invitations, the Wissenschafiskolleg emphasizes particular topical fields that seem especially promising for research and for developing working conditions. In the coming years, the fields of Life Sciences and Cultural Mobility will be in the foreground.
Every year we have two or three focus groups, some within the framework of the topical fields and some independent of them. Especially in the natural sciences and with younger researchers, it has proven useful to jointly invite small groups of three to five Fellows whose individual research plans relate to each other from the beginning. To preserve enough flexibility to accomodate the unexpected, the Wissenschaftskolleg has made it a rule that less than half of a years Fellows are invited within the framework of emphasis groups.
Focus groups in recent years:
in parentheses: Convener
2008/2009 | Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control |
2007/2008 | Constitution Beyond the Nation State Evolutionary Medicine |
2006/2007 | Evolutionary Immunology Phylogenetic Biology Religious Transformation Processes in the Present ImageScience - Media and Politics |
2005/2006 | Religion and Contingency Inner Model Theory |
2004/2005 | Conflict Resolution in Biological Systems Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Bildwissenschaft/ImageScience |
2003/2004 | Islamic and Jewish Hermeneutics as Cultural Critique Cultural Mobility Development of Spatial Cognition Science and the Public |
2002/2003 | The Sciences of Risk Brain Evolution Nutrition |
2001/2002 | Neural Control and Locomotion Social Norms and Economic Behaviour Social History of Muslim Societies - Social History of Western Societies The Sciences of Risk |
2000/2001 | Demography and the Evolution of Eusociality Spatial Cognition South Asian Historiography |
1999/2000 | Neurolinguistics AGORA Work - Knowledge Cohesion |
1998/1999 | The Meaning of Time in Quantum Theory Biomimetics Cultural Foundations of Economic Reality |
1997/1998 | Parallel Processing and the Binding Problem Visual Ecology and Evolution |
1996/1997 | Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts Active Vision |
1995/1996 | Spatio-Temporal Processes in Ecolocial Communities Models as mediators: The Role of Models in Physics and Economics Evolution of Global Biogeochemical Cycles and Environmental Change |
1993/1994 | Collective Intelligence: Self-Organizing Superorganism Systems Biodiversity |
1992/1993 | Physics of Disordered Systems |
