The Einstein Foundation Berlin is a foundation based in

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

, Germany "that aims to promote science and research of top international caliber in Berlin and to establish the city as a centre of scientific excellence." The foundation supports research in many fields beyond science, including

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscape ...

, and

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

. It gives out annual awards and sponsors various projects, including the "Einstein Center of

Catalysis Catalysis () is the process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction by adding a substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed in the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recycl ...

". The Einstein Foundation Berlin is separate from the short-lived Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning, Inc., founded in 1946.

History

The Einstein Foundation was established by the city and state of Berlin in 2009; one of its main partners is

Charité The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine) is one of Europe's largest university hospitals, affiliated with Humboldt University and Free University Berlin. With numerous Collaborative Research Ce ...

(Berlin University of Medicine).

Board members

Edelgard Bulmahn Edelgard Bulmahn (born 4 March 1951) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Member of the German Bundestag between 1987 and 2017. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2 ...

, advisory board *

Martin Grötschel Martin Grötschel (born 10 September 1948) is a German mathematician known for his research on combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, and operations research. From 1991 to 2012 he was Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin (Z ...

, executive board (chair 2011–2015) * Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, board of trustees * Amélie Mummendey, chair of the board of trustees * Stefan Rinke, advisory board *

Johanna Wanka Johanna Wanka (''née'' Müller; born 1 April 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister for Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. F ...

, advisory board *

Günter M. Ziegler Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician who has been serving as president of the Free University of Berlin since 2018. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the ...

, foundation council

Notable research fellows

* Cecilia Clementi — chemist * Channing Der — microbiologist *

Eduard Feireisl Eduard Feireisl (born 16 December 1957 in Kladno) is a Czech mathematician. After studying from 1973 to 1977 at secondary school in Nové Strašecí, Feireisl studied mathematics at Charles University in Prague from 1977 and graduated there in 19 ...

— mathematician *

Katharina Galor Katharina Galor ( he, קתרינה מ. גלאור; born 1966) is a German-born Israeli art historian and archaeologist specializing in Israel-Palestine. She has been teaching at Brown University since 1998, where she is Hirschfeld Visiting Assoc ...

— art historian and archeologist * Adele Goldberg — linguist (2010–2014) * David H. Gutmann — neurologist (2017-2022) * Brian Kobilka – chemist (winner of the

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) * Yannís G. Kevrekidis — chemist (2016–2018) *

Edvard Moser Edvard Ingjald Moser (; born 27 April 1962) is a Norwegian professor of psychology and neuroscience at thKavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. In 2005, he and May-Brit ...

– neuroscientist (winner of the

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( sv, Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or ...

) * Stefan Rinke — historian (2013–2015) * Richard J. Samuels — political scientist * Thomas C. Südhof – biochemist (winner of the

) * Viola Vogel — biophysicist

Notable supported figures and institutions

Individuals

Paul Ginsparg Paul Henry Ginsparg (born January 1, 1955) is a physicist. He developed the arXiv.org e-print archive. Education He is a graduate of Syosset High School in Syosset, New York. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in p ...

Gordon Guyatt Gordon Henry Guyatt (born November 11, 1953) is a Canadian physician who is Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (formerly Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics) and Medicine at McMas ...

, 2022 *

Stefan Hecht Stefan Hecht (born 6 January 1974) is a German chemist. Life Hecht was born in 1974 in East Berlin.Juri Rappsilber Juri Rappsilber (born 1971) is a German chemist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Career Rappsilber studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, University of Strathclyde, and with Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical Sch ...

Surjo R. Soekadar Surjo Raphael Soekadar (born July 4, 1977 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a German physician, neuroscientist and development aid worker. He studied medicine in Mainz, Heidelberg and Baltimore and graduated under Herta Flor, ZI Mannheim, with a doct ...

, 2018

Institutions

* Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies *

BIG-NSE The Berlin Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Engineering (BIG-NSE) is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Unifying Concepts in Catalysis" (UniCat) founded in November 2007 by the Technical University of Berlin and five further institutions i ...

(Berlin International Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Engineering) *

Center for Open Science The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the o ...

, 2021 * PathoGraphics Research Group,

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in poli ...

, 2016–2019

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2009 establishments in Germany Albert Einstein Foundations based in Germany Non-profit organisations based in Berlin Organizations established in 2009