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.
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)
awarded in 1996
Focus of research: Legal history and civil law
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
HELIOS
awarded in 2022
Article about Joshua Barham's research
Website of Joshua Barham
COGNITIVE CONTROL
awarded in 2020
Press release, 03/09/2020 (German version only)
Website of Tomer Czaczkes
DANCE
awarded in 2019
Press release, 03/09/2019 (German version only)
Website of Isabella Gierz-Pehlauni
ELDORADO
awarded in 2018
Website of Alexander Breder
QUANTUMsubCYCLE
awarded in 2012
Website of Rupert Huber
MolMesON
awarded in 2012
Website of John Lupton
ECOMAGICS
awarded in 2011
SOCIALVACCINES
awarded in 2009
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
CoulENGINE
awarded in 2020
Press release, 11/12/2020 (German version only)
FunctionalP4
awarded in 2017
Press release, 21/12/2017 (German version only)
Website of Robert Wolf
FRICatANions
awarded in 2016
moreRNA
awarded in 2015
Website of Gunter Meister
FeREDcoupls
awarded in 2015
IonPairsAtCatalysis
awarded in 2013
Website of Ruth Gschwind
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
ProMotion
awarded in 2017
Press release, 12/04/2018 (German version only)
Website of Dieter Weiss
PHAROS
awarded in 2016
Website of Burkhard König
SELFPHOS
awarded in 2013
Website of Manfred Scheer
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
Orbital Cinema
awarded in 2022
Press release, 25/10/2022 (German version only)
Website of Rupert Huber
MolDAM
awarded in 2020
Press release, 05/11/2020 (German version only)
Website of Jascha Repp
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.
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
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
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.
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
This material makes green energies more efficient
awarded in 2016
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.
Global History
Awarded in 2020
Information about Timothy Nunan on the DFG homepage
Condensed Matter Physics
awarded in 2018
Press release, 28/03/2018 (German version only)
Biophysics/Mathematics/Informatics
awarded in 2006
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:
Real-time quantum simulations of ultrafast exciton dynamics with atomic resolution
since 2022
Article about Jan Wilhelm's research
Website of Jan Wilhelm
Neuronal plasticity of the human brain
Press release, 24/01/2023 (German version only)
since 2021
Website of Sebastian Frank
Quantum invariants, knot concordance and unknotting
since 2019
Website of Lukas Lewark
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:
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