Research Awards - prizewinners of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The excellence of Humboldt-Universität is the result of the outstanding research carried out by its academics. Numerous researchers have already been honoured with high-ranking national and international science awards.
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Nobel Prize
The Alfred Nobel Prize was awarded for the first time in 1901 and is the most important science prize in the world. 30 Nobel Prize winners have conducted research in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature and medicine, including at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Link
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize has been awarded annually by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 1986 and is the most important award for research funding in Germany. The prize is awarded in response to proposals from the scientific community and following an international review. The Leibniz Prize is awarded for a period of seven years.
Here you will find all Humboldt-Universität researchers who have been honoured with the Leibniz Prize since 1998.
List of Leibniz Prize winners 🖉
2024
Ana Pombo, HU Berlin, Institut für Biologie und Max Delbrück Center, Berlin. Pressemitteilung HU: Link
2021
Steffen Mau, Berlin - Empirical Social Research/Macrosociology. Press release HU: Link
2019
Andreas Reckwitz, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) - Sociology. Since 2020 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Press release HU: Link
2018
Alessandra Buonanno, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam. Honorary Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2017. Press release HU: Link
2016
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Berlin - Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Honorary Professor at the Institute of Biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Press release idw: Link
2016
Christoph Möllers, Berlin - Public Law / esp. Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law. Press release of the HU: Link
2015
Steffen Martus, Berlin - Modern German Literature from the 18th Century to the Present. Press release of the HU: Link
2014
Artemis Alexiadou, Stuttgart - Linguistics (now Humboldt University of Berlin)
2013
Peter Hegemann, Berlin - Experimental Biophysics, UniCat member
2012
Michael Brecht, Berlin - Animal Physiology/ Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation, Speaker of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN)
2010
Peter Fratzl, Potsdam/Berlin - Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Potsdam/Golm and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University since 2004
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize has been awarded annually by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 1977 to scientists at an early stage of their careers for outstanding scientific achievements. The award winners can use the prize money for up to three years for further scientific research.
Current award winners
Fig.: Julia Thiel
Christopher Degelmann
Dr Christopher Degelmann, Visiting Professor of Ancient History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, has won the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2024.
Fig.: MPI für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften
Nicolas Perkowski
Prof Dr Nicolas Perkowski from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the Department of Mathematics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2019. Since 2019 at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The "Communicator Award - Science Award of the Donors' Association" is awarded by the DFG to scientists or teams from all disciplines who make their work accessible to a broad public in a particularly effective way and are committed to a dialogue between science and society.
Prof Dr Robert Arlinghaus from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Albrecht Daniel Thaer Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences was awarded the Communicator Prize in 2020.
Prof Dr Dr h.c. Artemis Alexiadou from the Department of German Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft has been awarded the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis by the Governing Mayor of Berlin in 2024.
Honours and awards of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Humboldt-Universität (HU) honours meritorious achievements by its members and by people in academic and public life. This includes the following honours:
Honorary Senator
Humboldt University Medal
Honorary doctorate
Humboldt Award
Award for good teaching at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dissertationspreis Adlershof (PhD Award Adlershof)
Since 2002, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the scientific network of the non-university research institutions located in the technology park Berlin Adlershof (IGAFA) and WISTA Management GmbH have jointly awarded the annual Dissertationspreis Adlershof, which is endowed with 3,000 Euros. The target group is young researchers who have completed their doctorate in Adlershof with at least a "very good" (magna cum laude: Link
