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Science Awards

Science awards reflect the scientific excellence of the research done at the Helmholtz Association. Last year researchers from the Helmholtz centres once again won numerous important and prestigious prizes.

 

A

AIO Science Award
Prof. Dr. Alwin Krämer, DKFZ

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Prof. Matthias Tschöp, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Alfred Müller Prize
Dr. Stefan Pfister, DKFZ

Alfried Krupp Award
Prof. Dr. Christian Koos, KIT

B

Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award
Prof. Dr. Oliver Daumke, MDC

Bernd Rendel Prize 2011
Katrin Kieling, GFZ

Bertha Benz Prize
Dr. Liane Rheinschmitt, KIT

Federal Cross of Merit
Dr. Ulrich Gensch, DESY

C

Carl Wilhelm Fück Prize
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Bock, GSI

Chica und Heinz Schaller Prize
Dr. Andreas Fischer, DKFZ
Dr. Allan Jones, DKFZ

Christa Lorenz-ALS Award
Prof. Dr. Michael Heneka, DZNE

D

German Innovation Prize for Medicin of the Herbert Worch-Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Peter Tass, Forschungszentrum Jülich

German Technion Prize
Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommer, MDC, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Glickman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Distinguished Referee Award of the American Physical Society
Prof. Dr. Oliver Boine-Frankenheim, GSI

Dresden Groundwater Research Award 2011
Dr. Benjamin Creutzfeldt, GFZ

Dr. Meyer Struckmann Research Award
Dr. Francesco Grilli, KIT

E

Edward DeMille Campbell Preis
Prof. Dr. Herbert Gleiter, KIT

Honorary Doctorate
Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, KIT
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek, Präsident of the Helmholtz Association

Badge of Honor of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Heiner Müller-Krumbhaar, Forschungszentrum Jülich

EMBO Young Investigator Award
Dr. Aurelio Telemann, DKFZ

Endoskopie Research Award
Dr. Christian Stock, DKFZ

enertec dezentral Innovation Prize 2011
Sebastian Reinecke, HZDR
Prof. Dr. Uwe Hampel, HZDR
Uwe Pöpping, HZDR
Martin Tschofen, HZDR

Enrico Fermi Prize 2011
Dieter Haidt, DESY, together with Antonino Pullia, University of Milan

ERC Advanced Grant
Prof. Dr. Gary Lewin, MDC
Prof. Dr. Thomas Jentsch, MDC
Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsvák, MDC
Prof. Dr. Michael Boutros, DKFZ
Prof. Dr. Bruno Kyewski, DKFZ

ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Luka Cicin-Sain, HZI
Prof. Dr. Emad Flear Aziz, HZB
Dr. Andriy Luzhetskyy, HZI
Prof. Dr. Michael Gotthardt, MDC
Dr. Jan-Erik Siemens, MDC
Prof. Dr. Paul Kögerler, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Dr. Markus Schubert, HZDR
Dr. Vigo Heissmeyer, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Ernst Friedrich Pfeiffer Prize
Dr. Sandra Hummel (2011), Dr. Christiane Winkler (2012), Helmholtz Zentrum München

F

Fleur Hiege Memorial Award
Dr. Jochen Utikal, DKFZ

Research Award of the Eva Luise und Horst Köhler Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Christof von Kalle, DKFZ

Award of the Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft
Dr. Anne Kunz, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Franz Gross Research Award
Prof. Dr. Michael Bader, MDC

Franz Volhard Prize
Prof. Dr. Thomas Willnow, MDC

Friedrich Becke Medal
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich, GFZ

Fritz Lampert Prize
Dr. Stefan Pfister, DKFZ
Dr. Andrey Kroshunov, DKFZ

Fritz London Memorial Award
Prof. Dr. Gerd Schön, KIT

FRP. NRW Award
Dr. Marc von Hobe, Forschungszentrum Jülich

G

Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize
Prof. Dr. Volker Schomerus, DESY

Google Faculty Research Award
Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders, KIT
Dr. Martin Nöllenburg, KIT

Google Focused Research Award
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner, KIT
Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders, KIT, together with Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast, Freinburg University

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky, MDC
Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell, GEOMAR
Prof. Dr. Peter Sanders, KIT

H

Hall of Fame of the International Thermal Spray Society
Prof. Dr. Detlev Stöver, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Hector Research Award
Prof. Dr. Hilbert von Löhneysen, KIT

Heinrich Hertz Prize
Prof. Dr. Manfred Thumm, KIT

Heinrich Pette Prize
Prof. Dr. Michael Platten, DKFZ

Humboldt Research Prize
Prof. Dr. Leone Spiccia, KIT
Prof. Dr. Richard Gerard Milner, DESY

I

Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation of the Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Dr. Kai Tiedtke, DESY
Andrey A. Sorokin, DESY
Ulf Jastrow, DESY

ITRI Prototyping Prize for Cooperative Road Damage Evasion
Fabian de Ponte Müller, DLR
Bernhard Kloiber, DLR
Jonathan Brembeck, DLR

J

Julius Bartels Medal of the European Geosciences Union
Prof. Dr. Hermann Lühr, GFZ

K

Karl Jasmund Prize 2009
Dr. Martina Klinkenberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Karl Scheel Prize
Dr. Emad Aziz, HZB

K. J. Zülch Preis of the Gertrud-Reemtsma-Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gasser, DZNE

Körber Prize
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell, DKFZ

L

Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg 2011
Prof. Dr.  Peter Sanders, KIT

Lautenschläger Research Award of the Manfred Lautenschläger-Stiftung
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wittbrodt, KIT

Lise Meitner Prize
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Langanke, GSI, together with Prof. Dr. Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, Universität Basel

M

m4-Award
Prof. Dr. Dolores J. Schendel, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Dr. Joel Schick, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Mattauch Herzog Prize
Dr. Wolfgang Plaß, GSI

Mega Grant of the Russian Federation Government
Prof. Dr. Alexey Ustinov, KIT

Meyenburg Prize
Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell, DKFZ
Dr. Allan Jones, DKFZ

Mimics Innovation Award of Materialise NV
Thomas Gengenbach, KIT
Prof. Dr. Vincent Heuveline, KIT
Dr. Mathias Krause, KIT
Rolf Mayer, KIT
Simon Zimny, KIT

N

Newcomer Award of the Arbeitskreis Zellbiologie und Biomedizinische Forschung e.V.
Dr. Ulfert Rand, HZI
Dr. Marina Steindorff, HZI
Dr. Uliana Komor, HZI

Newcomer Award of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Lennart Stutz, HZG

Nicholas Metropolis Prize of the American Physical Society, APS
Dr. Dmitry Fedosov, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Nicolaus August Otto Prize for innovation of the City of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Peter Tass, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Nikolaus Kopernikus Medal
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sigurd Hofmann, GSI

Novartis Prize „Junge Endokrinologie“
Dr. Allan Jones, DKFZ

O

Outstanding Referee Award of the American Physical Society
Dr. Robert O. Jones, Forschungszentrum Jülich

P

Potamkin Prize of the American Academy of Neurology
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Mandelkow, DZNE
Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Mandelkow, DZNE

Best PhD thesis award, Association for General and Applied Microbiology
Dr. Frank Uliczka, HZI

R

Rapid Response Innovation Award of the Micheal J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Prof. Dr. Peter Tass, Forschungszentrum Jülich, together with Dr. Wassilios Meißner, University of Bordeaux

Richtzenhain Prize
Prof. Dr. Stephan Herzig, DKFZ

RWE-Future Award 2011 "Impulse für die Energiewelt von morgen"
Dr. John Kettler, Forschungszentrum Jülich

S

Senior Fellowship
Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Klages, KIT, together with Prof. Dr. Peter L. Biermann, MPI für Radioastronomie, and Prof. Dr. Ernst Otten, Mainz University

Sofia Kovalevskaja Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr. Dmitry A. Fedosov, Forschungszentrum Jülich

SPECtacular Award from Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
Dr. Samuel Kounev, KIT

State Prize of the Russian Federation Government for achievements in science and technology
Prof. Dr. Boris Sharkov, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research

Stahl Innovation Prize 2012
Forschungszentrum Jülich together with ThyssenKrupp VDM

Stern Gerlach Medal
Prof. Dr. Günter Wolf, DESY

T

Animal Welfare Research Award of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
Prof. Dr. Claus-Michael Lehr, HZI & Saarland University
Dr. Eva-Maria Collnot, HZI & Saarland University
Fransisca Leonard, HZI & Saarland University

Tsungming Tu Award
Prof. Dr. Harald zur Hausen, DKFZ

U

UNESCO-l'Oreal for Women in Science
Katja Herzog, MDC

Union Service Award 2011 of the European Geosciences Union
Dr. Andreas Güntner, GFZ

V

VDE Award in Science
Dr. Felix Antreich, DLR

W

8th Warren K. Sinclair Award
Prof. Dr. Marco Durante, GSI

Werner Creutzfeldt Prize
Prof. Matthias Tschöp, Helmholtz Zentrum München

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Prize
Dr. Tobias Bäuerle, DKFZ
Dr. Allan Jones, DKFZ

Wilhelm Foerster Prize of the Urania Society
Prof. Dr. Günther Hasinger, IPP

William Nordberg Medal 2012
Prof. Dr. Herbert Fischer, KIT

Research Award of the Bundesverband für Legasthenie und Dyskalkulie
Dr. Stefan Heim, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Science Prize for animal-free Cancer Research
Dr. Irina Nazarenko, KIT

Wolf Prize, Physics
Prof. Dr. Knut Urban, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Prof. Dr. Maximilian Haider, KIT

World No Tobacco Day Award
Dr. Martina Pötschke-Langer, DKFZ