Scientists – Awards and Grants
Physicist Rupert Huber with Early Career Scientists at UR's Faculty of Physics. © UR | Photo: David Ausserhofer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest and most prestigious German research award. Since 1985, up to ten prizes with a maximum of €2.5 million each have been awarded annually by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to outstanding scientists working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad.
Rupert Huber (2019)
Rupert Huber
Experimental Physics, Read more
Press release, 14/03/2019 (German version only).
The Quantum World in Motion
The Physicist Rupert Huber Strives for a New Level of Understanding of the Nanocosmos.
Reinhard Zimmermann (1996)
Legal History and Civil Law
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
Karl Otto Stetter (1988)
Microbiology
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
ERC Grants
With its funding lines Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent frontier research projects.
ERC Starting Grants
Markus Jeschek
BiosenSAI
2023
Claudius Zibrowius²
CAPCAM
2023
Joshua Barham
HELIOS
2022
Tomer Czaczkes ¹
COGNITIVE CONTROL
2020
Press release, 03/09/2020 (German version only)
Isabella Gierz
DANCE
2019
Press release, 03/09/2019 (German version only)
Alexander Breder ¹
ELDORADO
2018
Rupert Huber ³
QUANTUMsubCYCLE
2012
John Lupton ³
MolMesON
2012
Georg Woltersdorf ²|³
ECOMAGICS
2011
Sylvia Maria Cremer-Sixt ²|³
SOCIALVACCINES
2009
Gunter Meister ¹|³
sRNAs
2009
¹ ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
² ERC grantee has left UR
³ project completed
ERC Consolidator Grants
Hendrik Poeck
MICROBOTS
2023
Press release, 23/11/2023 (German version only)
Alexey Chernikov ²|³
CoulENGINE
2020
Press release, 11/12/2020 (German version only)
Robert Wolf
FunctionalP4
2017
Press release, 21/12/2017 (German version only)
Olga García Mancheno ²|³
FRICatANions
2016
Gunter Meister ³
moreRNA
2015
Axel Jacobi von Wangelin ²|³
FeREDcoupls
2015
Ruth Gschwind ³
IonPairsAtCatalysis
2013
Remco Sprangers ¹|³
mRNA-decay
2013
¹ ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
² ERC grantee has left UR
³ project completed
ERC Advanced Grants
Dieter Weiss
ProMotion
2017
Press release, 12/04/2018 (German version only)
Burkhard König ³
PHAROS
2016
Manfred Scheer ³
SELFPHOS
2013
Christoph Klein ³
ISIS
2012
¹ ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
² ERC grantee has left UR
³ project completed
ERC Synergy Grants
Christine Ziegler
HYDROSENSING
2023
Press release, 26/10/2023
Rupert Huber/Ulrich Hoefer
Orbital Cinema
2022
Press release, 25/10/2022 (German version only)
Jascha Repp
MolDAM
2020
Press release, 05/11/2020 (German version only)
Jörg Wunderlich ¹|³
SC2
2013
¹ ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
² ERC grantee has left UR
³ project completed
Dr. Tomer Czaczkes at UR's "Uni goes downtown". © Julia Dragan/UR
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
The Reinhart Koselleck Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supports outstanding scientists in carrying out exceptionally innovative or higher-risk projects with a maximum of €1.25 million for five years.
Luca Gattinoni
Luca Gattinoni
Reprogramming CD8+ T cell metabolism and fate by MSC mitochondrial transfer
Subject Area: Immunology
2022 to 2027
Press release, 12/19/2022 (German version only)
Klaus Richter
Klaus Richter
Many-Body Quantum Processes at the Edge of Chaos: From Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics towards Quantum Gravity
Subject Area: Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
2021 to 2026
Press release, 06/04/2021 (German version only)
Burkhard König
Burkhard König
Carbanions for synthesis by photoinduced sequential multi-electron transfer
Subject Area: Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
2018 to 2024
Press release, 30/05/2017 (German version only)
Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards
The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, endowed with a maximum of €1.65 € million and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is one Germany’s most valuable prizes for outstanding early career researchers from abroad.
Joshua Barham (2019)
Joshua Barham
Breaking new ground in synthesis chemistry
Press release, 16/08/2019 (German version only)
Joshua Barham is pioneering synthetic photo-electro-chemistry as a tool for organic synthesis in Europe.
David Egger (2016)
David Egger
This material makes green energies more efficient
Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
Pavel Buividovich (2012)
Pavel Buividovich
Faster computing, greater insight: enhanced analysis of experiments with particle accelerators
Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
"Women in Data Science" at UR. © Julia Dragan/UR
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prizes
The Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize has been awarded to excellent early career researchers by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 1977
Alexey Chernikov (2018)
Alexey Chernikov
Condensed Matter Physics
Press release, 28/03/2018 (German version only)
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
Fabian Theis (2006)
Fabian Theis
Biophysics/Mathematics/Informatics
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left
Gerd Kempermann (1999)
Gerd Kempermann
Neurosciences
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
Independent junior research groups currently funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Jan Wilhelm
Jan Wilhelm
since 2022
Real-time quantum simulations of ultrafast exciton dynamics with atomic resolution
Breaking the Waves. Jan Wilhelm leads the junior research group “Computational Electronic Structure Theory” at UR’s Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Sebastian Frank
Sebastian Frank
since 2022
A lifespan perspective of visual learning and plasticity
Press release, 24/01/2023 (German version only)
"Zu alt zum Lernen? Hirnforschung mit dem Psychologen Sebastian Frank" (German only)
Lukas Lewark
Lukas Lewark
since 2019 (at ETH Zürich since 08/2023)
Quantum invariants, knot concordance and unknotting
Focus on the Humanities (completed)
Fellow currently funded by the Freigeist Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:
Tatiana Klepikova
Tatiana Klepikova
Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism
2022 to 2027
Presse release, 12/05/2022 (German version only)
Pride and Prejudice. Tatiana Klepikova is UR’s Freigeist Fellow, doing research on queer literatures and cultures
Timothy Nunan
Timothy Nunan
2016 to 2022 - Freigeist-Fellowship
Prizewinner was not yet member of UR when the prize was awarded.
Sabine Koller
Funded by the previous Dilthey Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:
Sabine Koller
Eastern European Jewry in Literature and Painting: Marc Chagall
2006 to 2012
"Rethinking the Balkans": History seminar project and exhibition in cooperation with UR's University Library. © Tanja Wagensohn/UR
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