Bernd was officially introduced into the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy. To promote young scholars, the Junges Kolleg was founded in 2006 and Bernd will be a part of it from 2020 for the following four years. On Tuesday the official inauguration was held in the presence of the North Rine-Westphalian Minister of Science and Education Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen and our rector Anja Steinbeck together with many members of the Academy.

See the German press release of the HHU and the German press release of the Academy here for further details. Picture kindly provided by AWK NRW / Andreas Endermann.