Interviews on the funding programmes

Whether postdocs, master's students, doctoral researchers or senior scientists - every year, guest researchers from all over the world come to Jülich. At the same time, Jülich researchers go to international partner institutions abroad. This form of exchange and cooperation is made possible by various funding programmes. The organisations that support research stays include the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In order to introduce the individual programmes, you will find interviews below in which scholarship holders report on their impressions. They talk about their experiences with the research culture of the host country and the added value that this stay has brought to their research.

Dr. Felix Lüpke, young investigator group leader at the Peter Grünberg Institute: Quantum Nanoscience (PGI-3) at Forschungszentrum Jülich, reports on his research stay in the USA as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation.

"WHERE MANY GOOD PEOPLE COME TOGETHER, THERE IS A MOMENTUM OF ITS OWN!"

Tasnim Abdalla, undergraduate student of health sciences at the University of Ottawa and RISE intern at Forschungszentrum Jülich

"I HAVE TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B"

Gaurav Chaudhary, doctoral student at the University of Texas and RISE intern at Forschungszentrum Jülich

"WHAT I LIKE ABOUT JÜLICH IS THE INTENSVIE EXCHANGE ON RESEARCH ISSUES WITH COLLEAGUES"

Tony Qian, undergraduate student at Columbia University in the City of New York and RISE intern at Forschungszentrum Jülich

"THIS CHANCE TO MEET A DIFFEREN T KIND OF SCIENTIST WAS IRRESISTIBLE"

Raghav Singhal, a master’s student from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, about his research internship as a DAAD WISE fellow at Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Peter Grünberg Institute – Neuromorphic Software Eco System (PGI-15).

“IT HAS BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR ME!”

Dr. Edward Gildersleeve, who is conducting research as a postdoc at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Materials Synthesis and Processing (IEK-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich as a Humboldt fellow, talks about his time in Jülich

“MY ABILITIES AS A RESEARCHER AND EXPERIMENTALIST HAVE IMPROVED!”

Dr. Muhammed Shirjeel Khan, who is conducting research as a postdoc at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Materials Synthesis and Processing (IEK-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich as a Humboldt fellow, talks about his experiences at Jülich

“THE HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION REALLY TAKES CARE OF YOU!”

Prof. Shih-kang Lin on his experience as a Humboldt fellow at the Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Materials Synthesis and Processing (IEK-1)

“IT WAS VERY WORTHWHILE!”

Prof. Dr. Harish Pothukuchi, assistant professor for Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jammu, undertook a two-month research stay this year at Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Institute of Energy Technologies – Electrochemical Process Engineering (IET-4). This was part of the Indo-German Science & Technology Centre’s (IGSTC) Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR) programme. In this interview, he talks about his experiences.

"I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY!"