Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes

Polar biologist Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2024 for her outstanding work in the field of geoecology.

• All Prize Winners 2024 (DFG, Press release)
• Leibniz Prize 2024 for AWI Scientist Ulrike Herzschuh (AWI, Press release/German

Molecular biologist Stefan Pfister of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and data scientist Fabian Theis of Helmholtz Munich receive Germany‘s most prestigious science award.

• All Prize Winners 2023 (DFG, Pressrelease)
• Fabian Theis wins Leibniz Prize (Helmholtz Munich, Press release)
• Leibniz Prize for Stefan Pfister (DFG)
• Pionier in the fight against cancer - A Portrait about Stefan Pfister
• The Data Juggler - A Portrait about Fabian Theis

Physicist Veronika Eyring of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and pharmacist Rolf Müller of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) have been awarded Germany‘s most prestigious research prize.

• With AI to better climate models - A Portrait about Veronika Eyring
• Pressemitteilung des DLR
• HIPS press release
• Prize Winners 2021

Immunologist Hans-Reimer Rodewald from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg and experimental physicist Wolfgang Wernsdorfer from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been awarded this year‘s most prestigious German science prize.

• Leibniz Prize for Hans Reimer Rodewald
• Lebniz Prize for Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
• On Qubits and spooky action at a distance (Interview with Wolfgang Wernsdorfer)

Eicke Latz, director of the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn and scientist at the DZNE will be awarded the Leibniz Prize. Eicke Latz will share the Leibniz Prize with Munich immunologist Veit Hornung. These scientists are among the world’s most influential researchers in the field of innate immune responses.

• Leibniz Prize to Eicke Latz (DZNE)

Materials scientist Britta Nestler has been researching and teaching at the Institute for Applied Materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2010. She is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of materials research and is giving new impetus to this area of research, particularly through the use of supercomputers.

Jörg Vogel is one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of RNA research. He received the Leibniz Prize for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of regulatory RNA molecules in infection biology. Vogel is the founding director of the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, Germany.

The molecular biologist Frank Bradke, group leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and professor for neurobiology at the University of Bonn, is awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2016. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) thereby honors his research on the growth and regeneration of neurons. Through his research Bradke aims to lay the basis for novel therapies, especially for the treatment of spinal cord injuries.

Leibniz Prize to Frank Bradke (DZNE)

DESY scientist Professor Henry Chapman has been awarded withe the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes 2015 by the German research foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Henry Chapman receives the 2.5-Million-Euro prize for his pioneering work in the development of femtosecond crystallography. It allows to decode the structure of complex biomolecules in its natural environment at the atomic level with the help of X-ray lasers.

Leibniz Prize for DESY scientist Henry Chapman

The Jülich researcher Rainer Waser has been awarded the 2014 Leibniz Prize. Nanoelectronic components, electrochemical energy conversion and innovative sensors - these are only a few of the topics Waser and his colleagues investigate. The 58-year-old natural scientist and engineer is Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute at the Forschungszentrum Jülich research centre, a member of the Helmholtz Association, and also holds a chair at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the RWTH Aachen University.

Rainer Waser Awarded Leibniz Prize

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