Awards
Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Prof. Dr. Benjamin List, Honorary Professor (2021)
Nobel Prize in Physics: Prof. Dr. Peter Andreas Grünberg, Adjunct Professor (2007)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Prof. Dr. Kurt Alder, Chair in Chemistry (1950)
Dr. Maxim Bykov, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, receives an ERC Starting Grant (2022)
Project: High-pressure nitride materials: towards the controllable and scalable synthesis in a diamond anvil cell
Junior Professor Marcel Schubert (Humboldt Centre for Nano and Biophotonics) receives an ERC Starting Grant
Project: "HYPERION - Optical Sequencing inside Live Cells with Biointegrated Nanolasers"
Dr. Gilles Storelli (CECAD) is awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2022)
Project: Dissection of the host-microbe crosstalk that controls metabolism and physiology in intestinal symbiosis…
Dr. Zhe Wang, II Institute of Physics, receives an ERC Starting Grant (2020).
Project: Nonequilibrium Terahertz Dynamics of Interacting Quantum Spins: from Novel Driven States towards Coherent…
Dr. Cedrick Ansorge, Institut of Geophysics and Meteorologie, ERC Starting Grant (2019)
Project: Turbulence-Resolving Approaches to the Intermittently Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Dr. Alexander Blanke, Zoological Institute, ERC Starting Grant (2018).
Project: The mechanical evolution from biting-chewing to piercing-sucking in insects
Prof. Dr. Gregor Gassner, Mathematical Institute, ERC Starting Grant (2017)
Project: An Exascale Aware and Un-crashable Space-Time-Adaptive Discontinuous Spectral Element Solver for Non-Linear…
Dr. David Vilchez, Institute for Genetics / CECAD, ERC Starting Grant (2016)
Project: Mediation of stem cell identity and aging by proteostasis
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner, Institute of Physics I, ERC Starting Grant (2016)
Project: The radiative interstellar medium
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann, Mathematical Institute, ERC Starting Grant (2014)
Project: Automorphic q-series and their application
Prof. Dr Ana García Sáez, Institute of Genetics, CECAD, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant (2019)
Project: Apoptotic foci: composition, structure and dynamics
Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann, Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Mathematics Division, receives an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020)
Project: (Mock) Modular Forms are Everywhere (ModEv)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Grüneis, Institute of Physics, ERC Consolidater Grant (2015)
Project: Many-body physics and superconductivity in 2D materials
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl, Institute of Theoretical Physics, ERC Consolidator Grant (2016)
Project: Many-Body Physics with Driven Open Quantum Systems of Atoms, Light and Solids
Prof. Dr. Gunther Döhlemann, Botanical Institute, ERC Consolidator Grant (2017)
Project: De- and reconstructing virulence strategies of fungal plant pathogens
Prof. Dr. Juliette de Meaux, Botanical Institute, ERC Consolidater Grant (2015)
Project: Using cis-regulatory mutations to highlight polygenic adaptation in natural plant systems
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe, Institute for Genetics, CECAD, ERC Consolidator Grant (2014)
Project: Global Dynamics of Proteolytic Quality Control Networks in Stress Response and Aging
Prof. Dr. Stephan Schlemmer, I. Institute of Physics, receives an ERC Advanced Grant (2021)
Poject: Molecular Spectra of Missing Ions in the Laboratory and in Space
Prof. Dr. Joachim Saur, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, received an ERC-Advanced Grant (2021)
Project: Searching and Characterising Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans
Prof. Dr. Manolis Pasparakis, Institute for Genetics, CECAD, ERC Advanced Grant (2018)
Project: Necroptosis in immunity, inflammation and autoimmunity induced by nucleic acid sensors.
Prof. Dr. Yoichi Ando, Institute of Physics, ERC Advanced Grant (2017)
Project: Majorana Fermions in Topological Insulator Platforms
Prof. Dr. Carsten Münker, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, ERC Advanced Grant (2015)
Project: The Making of the Earth – Reading the Geochemical Code from Meteorites and the Earth’s Oldest Rocks
- AG Schneider has been acknowledged by the AMA for its commitment to a sustainable future.
- Prof. Schlemmer received optica's William F. Meggers Award "For pioneering ultra-sensitive action spectroscopy with fundamental applications to spectra of molecular ions, particularly CH5+, and their key roles in astrochemistry"
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Stutzki, I. Physikalisches Institut, wird der Universitätspreis 2022 in der Kategorie "Forschung" verliehen.
- Simone Bandte receives the second prize of the VDI Cologne district association for her bachelor thesis (BSc Chemistry, examiners: Matthias Eisenacher and Ralf Giernoth)
- Prof. Susanne Crewell was selected by the World Climate Research Programme to serve on the Global Energy and Water Exchange (GEWEX) Core Project Scientific Steering Group.
- Prof. Dr. Tibor Dunai was elected to the Academia Europaea.
- Prof. Dr. Jan Jolie receives an honorary doctorate from St. Kimenti Ohridski University (Sofia, Bulgaria) for his outstanding scientific contributions in nuclear physics and for contributing to the development of cooperation between the two universities
- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Fluegge was awarded the Simon Schwendener Medal by the German Botanical Society for his services to the advancement of German plant sciences.
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur receives the Chemical Research Society India Medal 2023
- PROSION GmbH receives a Leibniz Foundation Award 2022
- The Czech Academy of Sciences awards Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert the Ernst Mach Medal of Honour for outstanding achievements in physics.
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur has been appointed to the Indian National Academy of Sciences.
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur has received the "Woody White Award" from the Materials Research Society (USA).
- Prof. Dr. Benjamin Rott, Institute for Mathematics Didactics, was awarded by the UNICUM Foundation as Professor of the Year 2021 in the category Humanities/Social/Cultural Sciences.
- Prof. Dr Benjamin List receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for his work on asymmetric organocatalysis
- Prof. Dr Stephan Schlemmer received the 16. "International Dr. Barbara Mez-Starck Price for outstanding contributions in the field of structural chemistry and high resolution molecular spectroscopy"
- Ex post: Frau Professorin Dr. Frauke Kraas wurde in die Gutachtergruppe des European Research Council (ERC), Panel SH2 berufen (da Schweigepflicht gegenüber Dritten, bis Begutachtungen abgeschlossen).
- Professor Dr. Maria Leptin will become President of the European Research Council (ERC) on October 01, 2021.
- Prof. Stefanie Walch-Gassner has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur has been accepted as a Fellow of the European Academy of Science (EurASc).
- Prof. Daniela Schmeinck was elected as a Senior Fellow in the Didaktik:digital college of the Joachim Herz foundation.
- Prof. Susanne Crewell was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, section Earth Sciences.
- Prof. Susanne Crewell was appointed member of the scientific advisory board at the Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics e.V. at the University of Rostock.
- Prof. Dr. André Bresges is awarded the Archimedes Prize for Physics by the Association for the Promotion of MINT Education (MNU).
- Prof. Susanne Crewell was elected as a member for the selection committee for Humboldt Research Fellowships.
- Prof. Melanie Schmidt was accepted by the German Research Foundation into the Emmy Noether Program with her project "Approximation algorithms for geometric data analysis and their applicability".
- Mr. Robert Sabelfeld receives for his master thesis "Cohousing: A Suitable Strategy for Ageing in Place? Lessons Learnt from Bonn, Germany" the NRW.BANK.Study Award "Housing and City".
- Jun. Prof. Dr. Stephanie Fiedler is accepted into the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Dr. Stephan Kneifel, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, will be awarded the Max Delbrück Prize for Young Scientists 2020
- Prof. Dr. Achim Rosch, Institute for Theoretical Physics, will be awarded the Max Delbrück Prize 2020.
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Crewell, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, will be awarded the Max Delbrück Prize 2020.
- Der Jenny Gusyk „INNOVATIONSPREIS“ 2020 ging an Sabine Graf ,I. Physikalisches Institut, für die physikalischen Schnupperpraktika.
- Dr. Aurélien Boisson-Dernier, Ph.D., was accepted into the Heisenberg Program by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with his project "Mechanisms of maintaining the cell wall integrity of growing plant cells".
- The UzK working group for the civil clause movement was awarded the "Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze-Förderpreis für gewaltfreies Handeln" (Protestant Peace Prize) in Leipzig.
- Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner, I. Physikalisches Institut, was elected as Vice-President of the German Astronomical Society.
- Dr. Alexander Blanke, Prof. Dr. Kei Ito and Prof. Dr. Ansgar Büschges, Institute of Zoology, were awarded the NeuroNe.
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Meerholz, Physikalische Chemie, got a new Graduationcollege in Cooperation with the University of Bonn (Template-Designed Organic Electronics (TiDE) – Understanding Transport by Trans
- Prof. 'in Dr. Frauke Kraas, Institute of Geography, was confirmed as a member of the Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centers and the Grants Committee for Collaborative Research Centers of the DFG
- Herr Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe, Institut of Genetics, elected as a new member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- Prof. Dr. Georg Bareth was elected Vice President of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF)
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Meerholz, Institute for Physical Chemistry, was elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Schadschneider, Institute for Physics Didactics, was appointed Main Editor of Physica A.
- Prof. Sanjay Mathur received the "Prof. R. C. Mehrotra Memorial Life Time Achievement Award", the highest award of the Indian Science Congress Association (Chemistry), which he received personally from the President of India.
- Prof. Ulf-Ingo Flügge was elected Chairman and Senator of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, for four years.
- Prof. Theo Pagel, Inst f. Zoology, was appointed head of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) for two years.
- Dr. Zhe Wang (II. Physikalisches Institut) was awarded the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society.
- The Research Training Group "Dynamic Regulation of Cellular Protein Localizations" (GRK2550, speaker Prof. Dr. Jan Riemer, Institute of Biochemistry, co-speaker Prof'in Dr. Ines Neundorf, Institute of Biochemistry) was approved by the DFG.
- Prof'in Dr. Maria Leptin received an honorary doctorate from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
- Prof. Dr. Peter Littelmann was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence "Mathematics Münster" at the University of Münster.
- Prof'in Dr Susanne Crewell, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, was awarded the Alfred Wegener Medal 2019 of the German Meteorological Society.
- The renewal proposal for the Research Training Group "Neuronal Network Analysis at Cellular and Subcellular Level" (Prof. Ansgar Büschges) was approved by the DFB for a period of 54 months.
- Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berkessel, Institute of Organic Chemistry, was awarded the Horst-Pracejus-Prize 2019 of the GDCh.
- Prof. Dr. Benjamin Rott, Institut für Mathematikdidaktik, hat eine Gastprofessur am Institut für Didaktik der Mathematik an der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt angenommen.
- Prof. Dr. Jens Claus Brüning: Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize 2018 (Stifterverband und Leopoldina)
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur, Institute of Anorganic Chemistry: International Fellowship Award, RMIT Melbourne, Australia (2018)
- The project 'Multi-site plasticity to support parallel memories in a recurrent network model of the mushroom body', led by Prof. Dr. Martin Nawrot, is funded by the DFG FOR 2705 research group for a period of 3 years.
- Prof. Dr. Mathias Wickleder, Institute of Anorganic Chemistry: Rudolf-Hoppe Vorlesung 2018
- Prof. Dr. Klaus-G. Hinzen was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award for Seismological Research Letters (SRL) by the Seismological Society of America.
- The BMBF is funding the project "Heterogeneity and Inclusion - Shaping the Future - Teacher Education Strategy" for a further five years. Prof. Bresges, Prof. Schwank and Dr. Wiktorin are in charge of three out of four fields.
- Prof. Dr. Benjamin Rott, Institute of Mathematics Didactics, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (IJSME).
- Prof. Dr. Sanjay Mathur, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Society.
- Prof. Dr. Walter Doerfler was appointed Dr. h.c. by the Medical Faculty of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
- Prof.'in Dr. Frauke Kraas, Institute of Geography, has been appointed a member of the advisory board of the BMBF funding priority "Sustainable Development of Urban Regions".
- Dr. Clemens Prescher, Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, was awarded the Max Delbrück Prize 2018 for young scientists.
- Prof. Dr. Martin Zirnbauer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, was elected Chairman of the Max Planck Medal Prize Committee.
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Schadschneider, Institute for Physics Didactics, was appointed to the DAAD Selection Committee.
- PD Dr. Mathias Schäfer, Organic Chemistry, has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Prof. Dr. Axel Klawonn, Institute of Mathematics, was elected as representative in the Program Committee of the Digital University NRW (DH-NRW).
- Prof. Dr. Axel Klawonn, Mathematical Institute, was appointed by the BMBF to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing Project Steering Committee for three years.
- Prof. Dr. Georg Bareth, Institute of Geography, was appointed to the Advisory Board of the University Library Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- Dr.'in Sabrina Disch, Institute for Physical Chemistry/QM2, was awarded the Max Delbrück Prize 2017 for Young Scientists
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer, Institute of Genetics/CECAD, received the Max Dellbrück Prize 2017
- Dr. Sabrina Disch, Department of Chemistry, was admitted to the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Botanical Institute, qwas granted the University Prize 2016.
- PD Dr. Dirk Blunk and Dr. R. D. M. Meisenheimer, Institute of Organic Chemistry, won the university competition ZukunftErfindenNRW in the category Engineering and Applied Natural Sciences.
- Prof. Dr. Inge Schwank was assigned the sub-project management "Inclusive Studies" by the ZuS steering committee.
- PD Dr. Patrick Fink, Institute of Zoology, currently on leave of absence to represent the Chair of Zoology at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, has won the Teaching Award 2016 of the Heinrich-Heine University.
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Herbig, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, was elected as Voting Member of the International Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy.
- Herr Prof. Dr André Bresges, Institut für Physikdidaktik, wurde von der American Association of Physics Teachers zum Chair of the Committee on International Education ernannt.
- Prof. Dr. Axel Klawonn, Mathematical Institute, was elected to the board of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM).
- Herr Professor Hans-Joachim Pflüger, FU Berlin, wurde mit der Ernst-Bresslau-Gastprofessur für Zoologie ausgezeichnet.
- Prof. Dr. Karl Schneider, Institute of Geography, has been appointed as the DFG liaison lecturer.
- Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Botanical Institute, was elected member of the Senate of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and chairman of the section 'Organismic and Evolutionary Biology'.
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Schlemmer, I. Physikalisches Institut, was awarded the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize 2015.
- Thomas Kerl, Organic Chemistry, was awarded the special prize for teaching in human medicine.
- Prof. Dr. Ansgar Büschges, Zoological Institute, was appointed as representative of the University of Cologne for the Scientific-Technical Council of Forschungszentrum Jülich
- The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences was awarded the Jenny Gusyk Innovation Prize 2015 for its sustainable increase in the proportion of women to W2/W3 professorships.
- PD Dr. Niels Gehring, group leader at the Institute of Genetics, was awarded a Heisenberg scholarship.
- Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas has been appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Construction and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
- Prof. George Marinescu was awarded the Research Prize 2014 "Simion Stoilow" of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
- Dr. Semyon Klevtsov (Mathematical Institute) was awarded the Max Delbrück Prize for Young Scientists.
- Dr. Anja Linstaedter, Botanical Institute, was accepted into AcademiaNet (database with profiles of excellent female researchers).
- Prof. Dr. Frauke Kraas has been appointed International Advisor to the University of Yangon by the Myanmar Ministry of Education.
- Prof. Dr. Paul H.M. van Loosdrecht has been appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Grüneis was granted the Austrian START Prize 2014
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Crewell has been elected to the DFG Senate Committee for Collaborative Research Centres
- Prof. Dr. Günter Schwarz receives the Jenny Gusyk Award 2014 in the category "Innovation*.
- PD Dr. Silvia Gruhn, Zoological Institute, was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2014
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Meerholz, Department of Chemistry, is awarded the Max Delbrück Prize for Outstanding Scientists (ERSP)
- Dr. Max Engel, Department of Geosciences, receives the Max Delbrück Prize for outstanding young scientists (ERSP)
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Strey, Institute for Physical Chemistry, was awarded the Theodor Steinkopff Prize of the Colloid Society.
- Prof. Dr. Jens Brüning, Institute of Genetics, was awarded the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the American Diabetes Association.
- The Institute for the Didactics of Science Education was the first German institution to be appointed as the 'Digital Earth Centre of Excellence'. Prof'in Dr. Daniela Schmeinck is in charge of the project.
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Crewell, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- Prof. Dr. Horst Bannwarth receives the honorary pin of the city of Frechen.