Special Honors
- 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
- 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.