For me, Humboldt today means ...

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany

Michael Sieweke, Prof., Dresden, Deutschland

Ashok Sridharan, Oberbürgermeister der Bundesstadt Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland

Archita Patnaik, Chennai, India

Christiane Ontrop, Primary School Principal Deutsche Schule Alexander von Humboldt Lima, Lima, Peru

Ranga Yogeshwar, Physicist and Journalist, Cologne, Germany

Ursula Luise Kirchner, Former Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow from the AvH, retired Uni. Prof. Medical Dentistry, USP São Paulo& FU Berlin, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Aline Concha-Dimas, Geological Engineer, Barcelona-Mexico City, Spain-Mexico

Balasundaram Subramanian, Dozent, Chennai, Indien

Andreas Holzenburg, Associate Vice President for Shared Research Infrastructure & Professor of Biomedical Science, Harlingen, TX, USA

Rüdiger Schaper, Journalist, Berlin, Germany

Anusha Lokanathapura Seetharama Bhasari, Postdoc, Goettingen, Germany

Ute Unterfrauner, Studentin, Bozen, Italien

Hartmut Koschyk, Vorsitzender des Alexander von Humboldt-Kulturforums Schloss Goldkronach e. V., Goldkronach, Deutschland

Anneliese Maier Award Winner Ingrid Piller (middle of back row and wearing a striped pullover), Sociolinguist, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia, with members of the Language on the Move team

Sabine Haag, Präsidentin der Österreichischen UNESCO-Kommission, Wien, Österreich

Angelos Chaniotis, Ancient historian, Princeton, New Jersey

Georgiana Stoica, Manager - Materials Characterization, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain

Prof. Dr. S. Helene Richter, Professorin für Verhaltensbiologie und Tierschutz an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Deutschland

Marwan S Mousa, President of Jordanian Club of AvH Fellows, Al-Karak, Jordan

Sarah Schückel, Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin, Dresden, Deutschland

Wolfgang Mastnak, Professor for music pedagogy, Munich, Germany

Gustavo Bernardino, Offenbach am Main, Germany

Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels, Rektor der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Deutschland

Andreas Pohlmann, Künstler/Kunsthistoriker, Bergheim, Deutschland

Annelise Riles, anthropologist Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, and Ingrid Piller, Sociolinguist, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien

Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger, Präsident der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Deutschland

Hugo Sanabria, Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Clemson, SC, USA

Margit Stumpp, Mitglied des Bundestages (B'90/Die Grünen), Königsbronn/Berlin, Deutschland

Fernando T. Maestre, Professor of Ecology, Sax, Spain

Ramon Luz, Alumni of the German Chancellor Fellowship - Filmmaker, Berlin, Germany

Griselda Capaldo, Scientific Researcher and Proffesor at the UBA, Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Argentina

Georg Scholl, Head of communications Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn, Germany

Carolina Doran, Biologist and Humboldt Research Fellow, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

Elkhan Nuriyev, Humboldt Senior Fellow, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin, Germany

Shyam Phartyal, Teaching/Research, Rajgir, India

Jean Noël Djobo, Scientist, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Thomas Ronge, Geologe, Bremerhaven, Deutschland

Pooja Gianchandani, The German Chancellor Fellow, Bonn, Germany

Stefan Kaufmann, Member of the Bundestag, Stuttgart, Germany

Laith Al-Juboori, Assistant Professor, Baghdad, Iraq

Dale Medearis, Environmental Planner, Alexandria, United States

Martin Schneider, Chief Executive of VDZ, Dusseldorf, Germany

Pierre Ibisch, Professor for Nature Conservation, Eberswalde, Germany

Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Rodrigo Costa Araújo, Conservationist Researcher, Manaus, Amazonas

Prof. Dr. Maria Böhmer, Präsidentin der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission, Bonn, Deutschland

Henry Wong, Research Professor, Hong Kong, China

Bradley Ladewig, Researcher, Karlsruhe, Germany

Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Hans-Christian Pape, President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Paul Goldberg, Geoarchaeologist, Medford, USA

Yalemtsehay Mekonnen, Georg Forster Research Fellow and Humboldt Alumni Award Winner 2018, Professor of Cell and Human Physiology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia