Scientists – Awards and Grants

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

In awarding the 2019 Leibniz Prize to Rupert Huber, the DFG recognized his "outstanding experimental work in terahertz and solid-state physics at the interface between optics and electronics. (The DFG's tribute to Professor Huber can be found on the DFG homepage.)

awarded in 2019
Focus of research: Experimental Physics

Press release, 14/03/2019 (German version only)

Reinhard Zimmermann¹

awarded in 1996
Focus of research: Legal history and civil law

Karl Otto Stetter¹

awarded in 1988
Focus of research: Microbiology

information on Karl Otto Stetter and the Biotechnikum (German version only)

¹ prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left

Joshua Barham

HELIOS
awarded in 2022
Article about Joshua Barham's research
Website of Joshua Barham

Tomer Czaczkes ¹

COGNITIVE CONTROL
awarded in 2020
Press release, 03/09/2020 (German version only)
Website of Tomer Czaczkes

Isabella Gierz-Pehla

DANCE
awarded in 2019
Press release, 03/09/2019 (German version only)
Website of Isabella Gierz-Pehlauni

Alexander Breder ¹

ELDORADO
awarded in 2018
Website of Alexander Breder

Rupert Huber ³

QUANTUMsubCYCLE
awarded in 2012
Website of Rupert Huber

John Lupton ³

MolMesON
awarded in 2012
Website of John Lupton

Georg Woltersdorf ²|³

ECOMAGICS
awarded in 2011

Sylvia Maria Cremer-Sixt ²|³

SOCIALVACCINES
awarded in 2009

Gunter Meister ¹|³

sRNAs
awarded in 2009
Website of Gunter Meister

¹=ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
²=ERC grantee has left UR
³=project completed
 

Alexey Chernikov ²|³

CoulENGINE
awarded in 2020
Press release, 11/12/2020 (German version only)

Robert Wolf

FunctionalP4
awarded in 2017
Press release, 21/12/2017 (German version only)
Website of Robert Wolf

Olga García Mancheno ²|³

FRICatANions
awarded in 2016

Gunter Meister ³

moreRNA
awarded in 2015
Website of Gunter Meister

Axel Jacobi von Wangelin ²|³

FeREDcoupls
awarded in 2015

Ruth Gschwind ³

IonPairsAtCatalysis
awarded in 2013
Website of Ruth Gschwind

Remco Sprangers ¹|³

mRNA-decay
awarded in 2013
Website of Remco Sprangers

¹=ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
²=ERC grantee has left UR
³=project completed

Dieter Weiss

ProMotion
awarded in 2017
Press release, 12/04/2018 (German version only)
Website of Dieter Weiss

Burkhard König ³

PHAROS
awarded in 2016
Website of Burkhard König

Manfred Scheer ³

SELFPHOS
awarded in 2013
Website of Manfred Scheer

Christoph Klein ³

ISIS
awarded in 2012
Website of Christoph Klein

¹=ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
²=ERC grantee has left UR
³=project completed

Rupert Huber/Ulrich Hoefer

Orbital Cinema
awarded in 2022
Press release, 25/10/2022 (German version only)
Website of Rupert Huber

Jascha Repp

MolDAM
awarded in 2020
Press release, 05/11/2020 (German version only)
Website of Jascha Repp

Jörg Wunderlich ¹|³

SC2
awarded in 2013
Website of Jörg Wunderlich

¹=ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application;
²=ERC grantee has left UR
³=project completed

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

Reprogramming CD8+ T cell metabolism and fate by MSC mitochondrial transfer
Subject Area: Immunology
Term: 2022 to 2027
Press release, 12/19/2022 (German version only)
Website of Luca Gattinoni

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
Term: 2021 to 2026
Press release, 06/04/2021 (German version only)
Website of Klaus Richter

Burkhard König

Carbanions for synthesis by photoinduced sequential multi-electron transfer
Subject Area: Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
Term: 2018 to 2024
Press release, 30/05/2017 (German version only)
Website of Burkhard König

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

Breaking new gro808und in synthesis chemistry
awarded in 2019
Press release, 16/08/2019 (German version only)
Article about Joshua Barham's research
Website of Joshua Barham

David Egger ¹

This material makes green energies more efficient
awarded in 2016

Pavel Buividovich ¹

Faster computing, greater insight: enhanced analysis of experiments with particle accelerators
awarded in 2012

¹=Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left

The Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize has been awarded to excellent early career researchers by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 1977.

Timothy Nunan ¹

Global History
Awarded in 2020
Information about Timothy Nunan on the DFG homepage

Alexey Chernikov ²

Condensed Matter Physics
awarded in 2018
Press release, 28/03/2018 (German version only)

Fabian Theis ²

Biophysics/Mathematics/Informatics    
awarded in 2006

Gerd Kempermann ²

Neurosciences    
awarded in 1999

¹=Prizewinner was not yet member of UR when the prize was awarded

²=Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left

Independent junior research groups currently funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:

Jan Wilhelm

Real-time quantum simulations of ultrafast exciton dynamics with atomic resolution
since 2022
Article about Jan Wilhelm's research
Website of Jan Wilhelm

Sebastian Frank

Neuronal plasticity of the human brain
Press release, 24/01/2023 (German version only)
since 2021
Website of Sebastian Frank

Lukas Lewark

Quantum invariants, knot concordance and unknotting
since 2019
Website of Lukas Lewark

Christoph Engel

Structural basis of the complete RNA polymerase I initiation apparatus
since 2018
Website of Christoph Engel

Fellow currently funded by the Freigeist Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:

Tatiana Klepikova

Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism
Presse release, 12/05/2022 (German version only)
term: 2022 to 2027
Article about Tatiana Klepikova's research
Website of Tatiana Klepikova