Prizes and Awards

Each year, our scientists are honored with a number of prestigious prizes, awards, and medals for their achievements in a variety of scientific disciplines. See a selection here.

Prizes and Awards

  • Helmholtz Munich

    Zeynep Akata Receives 2025 ZukunftsWissen Award

    Professor Zeynep Akata has been awarded the 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Commerzbank Foundation in recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions. The €50,000 award was presented on September 25, 2025, in Halle (Saale) as part of the Leopoldina’s Annual Assembly, which this year focuses on the topic of…
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

    Berlin Science Award goes to Philipp Adelhelm

    Battery researcher Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm has been awarded the 2024 Berlin Science Award. He is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin (HU) and heads a joint research group at HU and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The materials scientist and electrochemist is investigating sustainable batteries, which play a key role in the success…
  • Helmholtz Munich

    2025 Future Insight Prize Awarded to Magdalena Götz for Breakthroughs in Brain Regeneration

    Merck, a leading science and technology company, awarded the 2025 Future Insight Prize to Prof. Magdalena Götz from Helmholtz Munich. The award – a € 250,000 research grant – recognizes Götz’s pioneering work in the field of regenerative neurobiology, particularly the discovery of how to reprogram glial cells into functional neurons, opening up new therapeutic approaches for…

  • German Cancer Research Center

    Hector Foundation Prize 2025 for Annika Reinke: “Metrics Reloaded” improves the quality of AI-supported image analysis

    Computer scientist Annika Reinke from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) has been awarded the Hector Foundation Prize 2025, endowed with €10,000, for her outstanding work in the field of AI-supported medical image analysis. She received the award for the project Metrics Reloaded, which can significantly improve the quality and reliability of AI-supported image analysis.
  • German Cancer Research Center

    Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Lukas Bunse

    Germany's most important award for young scientists honors the development of immunotherapies against malignant brain tumors
  • German Cancer Research Center

    Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Lukas Bunse

    Germany's most important award for young scientists honors the development of immunotherapies against malignant brain tumors

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