Lawrence Wilde admitted to the Junges Kolleg of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Lawrence Wilde has been named one of nine new fellows of the Junges Kolleg, the young researchers’ programme of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. The fellowship carries an annual award of €10,000 and admits its members to the Academy’s four classes, bringing together early-career and established figures across the humanities, sciences, medicine, engineering, and — uniquely among German academies — the arts.
Wilde’s place is one of two funded in 2025 through the Academy’s partnership with the Landesrektorenkonferenz under the sustainability initiative Humboldtⁿ, alongside Dr. Lena Tacke (Catholic Theology, TU Dortmund). The cooperation, the first of its kind between a German state’s universities and its academy of sciences, will add up to twelve fellows by 2029 whose work addresses sustainability in research and university practice.
Founded in 2006, the Junges Kolleg counts some 190 current, associated, and former fellows. Membership is open to researchers and outstanding artistic talents under the age of 36.
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Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research, FRIAS Freiburg
Lawrence Wilde has been admitted to the second cohort of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS) at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, representing composition, music technology, and music theory. His membership runs from October 2024 to September 2027.
The cohort brings together researchers in philosophy, forest ecology, international relations, environmental anthropology, art history, urban planning, law, human geography, biomimetics, architecture, physics, and public policy — with Wilde as its sole representative from music.