Editorial Volume 11, Issue 6

Dear josha-journal readers, In this issue, we would like to highlight this year's winners of the Demetrios Prizes: Márcio Bruno Barra Valente, Aspasia Marmaritsaki and María Fernanda Cadena Vizuete convinced the jury with their work. Márcio Bruno Barra Valente received the prize for his doctoral thesis “We, the Mourners of the Pandemic in Brazil: Relationships between Mourning and Politics Based on the Loss of Mothers or Fathers by Covid-19” on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil. María Fernanda Cadena Vizuete received the prize in the Master's category for her thesis “Automated Microfluidic System for Suspension Cell Culture Using Lab-on-Chip Devices”. Aspasia Marmaritsaki was awarded for her Bachelor's thesis “Dance through Traditional Rhythms: A Practice-as-Research Exploration of Colombian Rhythms Informing and Shaping Contemporary Dance”. Congratulations to all the winners for their outstanding work! Of course, we would also like to recommend the other articles in this issue to all readers. Finally, we would like to congratulate our journal founder Professor Roland Mertelsmann on his 80th birthday, which he celebrated in October! This project is thanks to his initiative. In his honour and in honour of the idea of josha-journal, Nobel Prize winner Joachim Frank gave the keynote speech “Science, Arts and Humanities in a Changing World”, which can also be found in this issue. Happy Birthday dear Roland and thank you for the inspiration!