Endowed Professorships
Through endowed professorships and visiting endowed professorships, research and teaching receive additional emphasis. Unlike regular professorships, endowed professorships and visiting endowed professorships are funded by foundations and other third-party donors and are initially time-limited.
The Humboldt University of Berlin understands endowed professorships to include all professorships financed by third-party funds. Typically, endowed professorships transition into the university's structure after the funding period ends; in other cases, the professorship expires with the end of the financing or continues to be partially funded by third-party support.
Endowed visiting professorships refer to teaching offers financed by third-party funds and provided by rotating scholars. These include long-term collaborations with individual private and public donors, as well as specific formats such as the DAAD Visiting Professorship.
Endowed Professorships
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Alexander von Humboldt Professorships
Non-Profit Hertie Foundation
- Prof. Dr. Herbert Brücker, Hertie Stiftungsprofessur für Ökonomische Migrations- und Integrationsforschung, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM), 01/2017-09/2026
- Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, Hertie Senior Research Chair for Neuro-sciences Hertie-Senior-Forschungsprofessur Neurowissenschaften, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biology, 09/2016-09/28
Einstein Foundation Berlin
Einstein Strategic Professorships [Einstein-Profil-Professuren]
SAP
- Prof. Dr. Anastasia Danilov, ECDF-Professorship for Organizational Economics and Future of Work (W1), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 04/2019-09/2026
- Prof. Dr. Philipp Staab, ECDF-Professorship Sociology of the Future of Work (W2), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, 02/2019-07/2025
Commerzbank-Stiftung
- Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Mayweg, ECDF-Professorship Digital Knowledge Management in Higher Education (W1), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Education Studies, Laufzeit: 10/2018-05/2025
Elsevier
- Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel, ECDF-Professorship for Information Management, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Library and Information Science,
10/2019-11/26 (until 08/2022: Prof. Rebecca Frank Ph.D.)
Auxiliium Stiftung
- Prof. Dr. Felix Körner, Nikolaus Cusanus Lehrstuhl für Theologie der Religionen, Institute for Catholic Theology (IKT), 10/2021-09/2026
Stiftung Humboldt Forum
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Tyradellis, Endowed Professorship for Theory and Practice of Interdisciplinary Curating, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, 01/2020-12/2025
Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Stiftung
- Prof. Tim Adam; PhD, Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Förder-Professorship for Corporate Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, 01/2020-12/2027
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Prof. Valentina Forini, Ph.D., Heisenberg-Professur für Theoretische Teilchenphysik: Eichfelder und Stringtheorie, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, 09/2023-08/2026- Prof. Tilmann Brück , Ph.D., Heisenberg-Professur für Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Ernährungssicherheit,Faculty of Life Sciences, Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, 07/2022-06/2025
- Prof. Dr. Daniel Bultmann, Daniel, Heisenberg-Professur für Gesellschaft und Transformation in Asien und Afrika, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Asian and African Studies, 01/2025-12/2027
Endowed Visiting Professorships
DAAD
- Endowed Professorship for African Diaspora Studies
Rotating professors from African partner institutions, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Asian and African Studies, 04/2023-03/2025 - Prof. Dr. Alexander Maier, Gastprofessur Appreciating Parasite Diversity, Australian National University, Canberra, Laufzeit: 06-09/2025
Association for the Promotion of Sciences in Germany [Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft]
Rotating holders, Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, Department of Northern European Studies, since 1999
Jubilee Fund of the Swedish Riksbank
Rotating holders, Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities, Department of Northern European Studies, since 2000
FONTE Stiftung
Rotating holders from various humanities institutes (Department of Romance Studies, Department of German Literature, Department of Cultural History and Theory), since 2016
Guardini Stiftung
Guardini-Stiftungsgastprofessur für Religionsphilosophie und Theologische Ideengeschichte
Rotating holders, Institute for Catholic Theology (IKT)/Faculty of Theology (bis 2022), 2004-2024