Lab postdoc Carsten Meyer awarded $1 million Freigeist Fellowship

Lab postdoc Carsten Meyer awarded $1 million Freigeist Fellowship
August 5, 2016

Congratulations to Lab postdoc Carsten Meyer for winning a $1 Million Freigeist Fellowship! The award by the Volkswagen Stiftung will enable Carsten to set up his own research group at the University of Leipzig and its iDiv Institute. Only 13 fellowships were awarded in 2016 across the Sciences and Humanities. Carsten will use the fund for “Modelling the Socioeconomic Forces behind 21st Century Biodiversity Loss: A Macroscopic Approach to turn Complexity into Opportunities for Action”