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60 Seconds Science: Countering the AfD with wedge issue strategy?

24.02.2025 – Scientists at the Humboldt Governance Lab have investigated whether wedge issues can help established parties win back voters. Their findings are now available in our compact 60-second video!

Humboldt explains – Convincing in the first meeting with a company

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First ProValid at the HU: Reliable method found for diagnosing hereditary disease?

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Humboldt Explains – Report Inventions and benefit from them

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Humboldt explains – Pitching my application-oriented research idea

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Humboldt explains – Networking despite social distancing

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60 Seconds Science: Anxiety and phobia

07.04.2021 – What do anxiety disorders mean for those affected? And why do they often go unrecognised? Researcher Dr Ulrike Lüken examines these and other questions on the subject of anxiety and phobia. As an expert, the scientist from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is looking for new forms of therapy to support those affected.

60 Seconds Science: Quantus

17.03.2021 – How can current measuring systems be improved using the latest research approaches? Scientist Dr Markus Kurtzik from the Humboldt University of Berlin, who has already worked on novel quantum sensors in his dissertation, is investigating this question.

60 Seconds Science: Can trees get the flu?

03.02.2021 – Plant viruses have long been a threat to trees in forests and urban areas. Nevertheless, their danger to native plants has not been thoroughly researched. The scientist Dr Carmen Büttner from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is an expert in the field of phytomedicine and investigates these viruses and their effects on nature.

60 Seconds Science: Visual Action

18.01.2021 – As an expert in active perception and cognition, Prof Dr Martin Rolfs investigates the question as part of his research: How does our brain process visual stimuli and what influence do they have on our actions?

60 Seconds Science: Robotic swarms

04.01.2021 – Prof. Dr. Pawel Romanczuk is an expert in the field of collective behaviour of biological swarms. In his research, he investigates questions such as: How biological behaviour can inspire artificial systems and how this intuitive swarm behaviour can be simulated?

60 Seconds Science: Face Perception

15.12.2020 – Prof Dr Rasha Abdel Rahmen is an expert in the field of neurocognitive psychology and researches questions such as: What influences and currents are necessary to shape human perception and how can this knowledge be adapted to automatic systems?

60 Seconds Science: Robotics

24.11.2020 – Prof. Dr. Verena Hafner is an expert in the field of computer science, researching adaptive systems and investigating the extent to which intelligence can be measured and how intelligent behaviour can arise.

60 Seconds Science: Philosophy of mind

20.10.2020 – As an expert in his field, Prof Dr Michael Pauen researches the philosophy of the mind with regard to digital technologies and explores the question of what makes us humans intelligent and able to cooperate and to what extent artificial intelligence changes our social skills.