The German Research Foundation's Heisenberg Programme is designed to support those researchers who have achieved their habilitation or an equivalent qualification and thus already qualified for professorship.
7. Heisenberg Programme
Leipzig University currently hosts Heisenberg fellowships, Heisenberg positions and Heisenberg professorships:
- Professor Ringo Baumann at the Institute of Computer Science: “PEAR – Principles of Expressive Argumentation”
- Professor Markus Dreßler at the Institute for the Study of Religion: “Modern Turkology”
- PD Dr Ivar Krumpal at the Institute for Social Science: “New social norms and moral dilemmas as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic”
- PD Dr Claudia Lang at the Department of Anthropology: “Digitisation and Mental Health”
- Professor Solveig Richter at the Institute for Political Science: "Blended Legitimacy: Non-State Authority Groups and the Changing Political Order in Post-Conflict Societies"
- PD Dr Sebastian Rimestad at the Institute for the Study of Religion: “1) Establishing Confessional Cultures in 18th Century Poland-Lithuania 2) Religious Conversion as Statements”
- Professor Erik Schilling at the Institute for German Studies: „Interpretive Cultures of the Present”