India, May 20 -- The University of Tubingen has this year achieved a triple success in acquiring Momentum funding from the Volkswagen Foundation for the newly appointed professors Rosa Lozano-Duran from the Center for Plant Molecular Biology, Marcus Scheele from the Institute of Physical Chemistry, and Nadine Ziemert from the Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine.

The Volkswagen Foundation supports professors in the first years of their appointment with its Momentum funding program for recently tenured professors. The grant gives them scope to further develop their research long term, or to tackle new topics. The highly endowed grants run for four years. They may be extended for a further two years. The Volkswagen...