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Herr Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe, Institut of Genetics, elected as a new member of the EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
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Prof. Dr. Georg Bareth was elected Vice President of the German Society for Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation (DGPF)
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Meerholz, Institute for Physical Chemistry, was elected member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Schadschneider, Institute for Physics Didactics, was appointed Main Editor of Physica A.
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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.
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Prof. Ulf-Ingo Flügge was elected Chairman and Senator of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, for four years.
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Prof. Theo Pagel, Inst f. Zoology, was appointed head of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) for two years.
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Dr. Zhe Wang (II. Physikalisches Institut) was awarded the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society.
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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.
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Prof'in Dr. Maria Leptin received an honorary doctorate from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.
