No. 115/2023

5 HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 115/2023 IMPRINT HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 115 FOCUS 12 The secret formula Seventy years – between tradition and innovation 14 What’s next? The really vital research questions 18 Excellent science should not be a question of geography Interview with Robert Schlögl 28 26 FROM THE FOUNDATION’S NETWORK 28 CLOSE UP ON RESEARCH She monitors the monitoring 32 FOCUS ON GERMANY An Eldorado for research – and bureaucracy 34 THE FACES OF THE FOUNDATION A who’s who of the people behind the scenes at the Humboldt Foundation PUBLISHER Alexander von Humboldt Foundation EDITOR IN CHIEF Georg Scholl (responsible), Teresa Havlicek EDITORS Nina Hafeneger, Ulla Hecken, Lisa Purzitza ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Dr Lynda Lich-Knight PRODUCTION & GRAPHICS Raufeld Medien GmbH Jana Gering (Project Management), Daniel Krüger (Creative Direction), Carolin Kastner (Art Direction) FREQUENCY twice a year CIRCULATION OF THE ISSUE 43,000 PRINT Bonifatius GmbH, Paderborn ADDRESS Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Redaktion Humboldt Kosmos Jean-Paul-Straße 12, 53173 Bonn, Germany presse@avh.de , www.humboldt-foundation.de ISSN 0344-0354 DO JOIN IN #AvHWhatsNext Photos: Humboldt Foundation/ Jann Höfer, picture alliance/AP images, collage: Skizzomat / raufeld 12