Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka from the Department of Physics and IRIS Adlershof iProf Dr Strausz from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at HU will receive funding totalling four million euros.
The HU sociologist researches and communicates about social inequality and injustice, the structural change of the middle class and new border regimes.
Prof. Dr Andreas Degkwitz, Director of the University Library for many years, was honoured with the Humboldt-Universitäts-Medaille for his outstanding achievements in the areas of digitisation and open access.
Corinna Coupette, an employee at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken, impressed the selection committee with her impressive interdisciplinary approach.
Prof Dr Arno Rauschenbeutel receives ERC Synergy Grant. His research topic is "SuperWave: Superatom Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics" at the Department of Physics.