Academy Day 2026
Academy Day 2025: Interdisciplinary Symposium & Award Ceremony, Friday, May 16, 2025
JQYA Academy Day 2025 brought together Fellows, Members, and esteemed guests for inspiring scientific and interdisciplinary exchange. During the Award Ceremony, we warmly welcomed eight new JQYA Fellows, two new JQYA Members, as well as 14 Associated and International Fellows into the JQYA community:
- Dr Hiwa Asadpour
- Dr Ana Clemente
- Dr Burcu Gürbüz
- Dr Katharina Hoppe
- Dr Dhara Patel
- Dr Johannes Petry
- Dr Johanna Wilmes
- Dr Edgar Wong
- Dr Nico Bast
- Prof. Greta Wagner
New Associated Fellows, funded through Goethe University’s R3 Career Support
- Dr Elisa Frei
- Dr Katharina Graf
- Dr Marília Jöhnk
- Dr Reymond Sutandy
- Dr Silvia Würstle
- Dr Aliénor Ballangé
- Dr Marius Gruber
New International Fellows, funded through Goethe University’s R3 Career Support
- Dr Aminul Islam Chowdhury
- Dr Marwa Mahdouani
- Dr Juliana Holanda
- Dr Lior Birger
- Dr Sophie Korn
- Dr Mengze Li
- Dr Aliaksandra Valodzina
Video
The Video starts at 8:10.
Program
“Complexity and the Limits of our Understanding”
Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D., Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Official launch of the academic year 25/26 and the admission of our new Fellows and Members.
Interdisciplinary Tandem Symposium (10:00 am – 1:30 pm):
- 10:00 Academic Freedom
Prof. Klement Tockner, Director General SNG & JQYA Director - 10:45 Complex and Wicked Problems Call for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Solutions
Prof. Janet Hering, former Eawag Director & ETZH - 11:25 Moments Matter: A Multimodal Developmental Approach for Adaptive Learning Support
Dr Elena Galeano Weber, DIPF & Prof. Daniele Di Mitri, German University of Digital Science - 12:10 Deep-Sea Discovery – On the Challenges and Opportunities of Scientific, Technical and Organizational Complexity
Dr Torben Riehl, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt - 12:45 Navigating Complexity: Active Inference for World Model Learning
Dr Tristan Stöber, University Hospital Frankfurt & Dr Ana Clemente, MPI for Empirical Aesthetics - 13:20 Closing remarks
Katharina Welling, JQYA Managing Director
Award Ceremony (3:00 -5:00 pm):
- 14:45 Admission – FIAS, 4th Floor, Faculty Club
- 15:00 Welcome Addresses
Prof. Volker Lindenstruth, Acting Scientific Director FIAS
Prof. Bernhard Brüne, Vice-President Goethe University Frankfurt
Prof. Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Goethe University Frankfurt, JQYA Director - 15:25 Keynote Lecture: Complexity and the Limits of our Understanding
Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D., Complexity Science Hub Vienna - 16:10 Award Presentation to new JQYA Fellows and Members
- 16:45 Closing Remarks
Prof. Klement Tockner, Director General SNG & JQYA Director
Afterwards Reception
Emcee: Ruth Murdoch
Musical interlude: Duo Puschan Mousavi Malvani & Stephan Weiler
Venue
FIAS
Ruth-Moufang-Straße 1
60438 Frankfurt am Main
Contact
JQ Young Academy at Goethe
Managing Director
Katharina Welling
+49 (0) 69 798 15185
jqya@uni-frankfurt.de
Academy Day 2024
Interdisciplinary Symposium & Award Ceremony
With a Keynote lecture on Complexity by Prof. DDr. Stefan Thurner, MedUni Vienna & Complexity Science Hub
Official launch of the academic year 24/25 and the admission of our new Fellows and Members.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Online Registration is closed. Please contact the JQYA office if you would like to attend.
Program
Interdisciplinary Tandem Symposium (10:15 am – 1:30 pm):
- 10:00 Admission – Senckenberg, Seminar Room, ground floor
- 10:15 Complexity – Introduction into a Manifold Topic
Prof. Dr Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Goethe University Frankfurt, JQYA Founding Director
Chairs: Dr Magnus Ressel & Dr Caroline Sauter - 10:45 What is Complex Systems Theory?
Prof. Dr Claudius Gros, Goethe University Frankfurt
Chairs: Dr Sebastian Eckart & Dr Caroline Sauter - 11:15 Unraveling Complexity: Perspectives from History, AI, and Psychology
Prof. Dr Magnus Ressel, University of Bremen,
Dr Daniele Di Mitri, DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education &
Sophie A. Nolden, Ph.D., Goethe University Frankfurt
Chairs: Dr Sebastian Eckart & Dr Susanne Fehlings - 12:10 Short break
- 12:20 Complexities in Non-Complex Societies: Insights from Cultural Anthropology
Prof. Dr Roland Hardenberg, Frobenius Institute Frankfurt
Chairs: Dr Susanne Fehlings & Prof. Dr Catherine Whittaker - 12:50 Why we Should Understand Complexity
Prof. Dr Stefan Thurner, MedUni Vienna & Complexity Science Hub
Chair: Dr Daniele Di Mitri & Prof. Dr Catherine Whittaker - 13:40 Closing remarks
Katharina Welling, Goethe University Frankfurt, JQYA Managing Director - 13:45 Lunch break
Award Ceremony (3:00 -5:00 pm):
- 14:45 Admission – Senckenberg, 1. floor Foyer & Festsaal
- 15:00 Opening of the Award Ceremony
Emcee: Ruth Murdoch, Duo Elvegust - 15:05 Welcome addresses
Prof. Dr Klement Tockner, Director General SGN & JQYA Director
Prof. Dr Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University Frankfurt - 15:25 Keynote lecture: Complexity
Prof. DDr Stefan Thurner, MedUni Vienna & Complexity Science Hub - 16:05 Intermezzo
Duo Elvegust - 16:10 Award presentation:
JQYA Directors Prof. Dr Klement Tockner & Prof. Dr Matthias Lutz-Bachmann - 16:35 Musical closing:
Duo Elvegust - 16:40 Closing remarks:
Prof. Dr Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Goethe University Frankfurt, JQYA Founding Director - 16:45 Reception
Venue
Senckenberg
Mertonstraße 17
60325 Frankfurt
Contact
JQ Young Academy at Goethe
Managing Director
Katharina Welling
+49 (0) 69 798 15185
jqya@uni-frankfurt.de
Livestream
The livestream can be found on the day of the event on our website.
Academy Day 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
Official launch of the academic year 23/24 and the admission of our new Fellows and Members
Stream
Programme
- Welcome address by Susanne Boomkamp-Dahmen, Managing Director at DIPF
- Welcome address by Prof. Dr Enrico Schleiff, President of Goethe University Frankfurt
- Welcome address by Prof. Dr Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, JQYA Director
- Keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, Friedrich Schiller University Jena: “Resonant vs. Mute Modes of Connection. Dissident Reflections on an Age of Networks, Flows and Fluids”
- Award presentation to new JQYA Fellows and Members
- Concluding remarks by Prof. Dr Klement Tockner, JQYA Director
- Reception
Venue
DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung
und Bildungsinformation
Campus Westend
Rostocker Str.6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Arriving by car
Parking facilities available upon request. Please contact us in advance.
Contact
JQ Young Academy at Goethe
Managing Director
Katharina Welling
+49 (0) 69 798 15185
info@jqya.de