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Scientists ¨C Awards and Grants

Physicist Rupert Huber with Early Career Scientists at UR's Faculty of Physics. ? UR | Photo: David Ausserhofer


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest and most prestigious German research award. Since 1985, up to ten prizes with a maximum of €2.5 million each have been awarded annually by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to outstanding scientists working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad.


Rupert Huber (2019)

Rupert Huber

Experimental Physics, Read more

Press release, 14/03/2019 (German version only).

The Quantum World in Motion
The Physicist Rupert Huber Strives for a New Level of Understanding of the Nanocosmos.


Reinhard Zimmermann (1996)

Legal History and Civil Law

Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.


Karl Otto Stetter (1988)

Karl Otto Stetter

Microbiology

Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.



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ERC Grants

With its funding lines Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent frontier research projects.


ERC Starting Grants

Radu Curticapean?

CountHom

2022 (transferred to UR in 2023)


Neva Caliscan?

T-FRAME

2020 (transferred to UR in 2024)


Markus Jeschek

BiosenSAI

2023

Press release, 03/09/2020


Claudius Zibrowius?

CAPCAM
2023


Joshua Barham

HELIOS
2022


Tomer Czaczkes ?

COGNITIVE CONTROL
2020
Press release, 03/09/2020 (German version only)


Isabella Gierz

DANCE
2019
Press release, 03/09/2019 (German version only)


Alexander Breder ?|?

ELDORADO
2018


Rupert Huber ?

QUANTUMsubCYCLE
2012


John Lupton ?

MolMesON
2012


Georg Woltersdorf ?|?

ECOMAGICS
2011


Sylvia Maria Cremer-Sixt ?|?

SOCIALVACCINES
2009


Gunter Meister ?|?

sRNAs
2009


? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed
?


ERC Consolidator Grants

Hendrik Poeck

MICROBOTS

2023
Press release, 23/11/2023 (German version only)


Alexey Chernikov??|?

CoulENGINE
2020
Press release, 11/12/2020 (German version only)


Robert Wolf

FunctionalP4
2017
Press release, 21/12/2017 (German version only)


Olga Garc¨ªa Mancheno ?|?

FRICatANions
2016


Gunter Meister ?

moreRNA
2015


Axel Jacobi von Wangelin ?|?

FeREDcoupls
2015


Ruth Gschwind ?

IonPairsAtCatalysis
2013


Remco Sprangers ?|?

mRNA-decay
2013


? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed


ERC Advanced Grants

Dieter Weiss?

ProMotion
2017
Press release, 12/04/2018 (German version only)


Burkhard K?nig ?

PHAROS
2016


Manfred Scheer ?

SELFPHOS
2013


Christoph Klein ?

ISIS
2012


? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed


ERC Synergy Grants

Christine Ziegler

HYDROSENSING
2023
Press release, 26/10/2023


Rupert Huber/Ulrich Hoefer

Orbital Cinema
2022
Press release, 25/10/2022 (German version only)


Jascha Repp

MolDAM
2020
Press release, 05/11/2020 (German version only)


J?rg Wunderlich ?|?

SC2
2013


? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed



Dr. Tomer Czaczkes at UR's "Uni goes downtown".?? Julia Dragan/UR


Reinhart Koselleck Projects

The Reinhart Koselleck Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supports outstanding scientists in carrying out exceptionally innovative or higher-risk projects with a maximum of €1.25 million for five years.


Luca Gattinoni

Klaus Richter

Klaus Richter

Many-Body Quantum Processes at the Edge of Chaos: From Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics towards Quantum Gravity
Subject Area: Statistical Physics, Soft Matter, Biological Physics, Nonlinear Dynamics
2021 to 2026
Press release, 06/04/2021 (German version only)


Burkhard K?nig

Burkhard K?nig

Carbanions for synthesis by photoinduced sequential multi-electron transfer
Subject Area: Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
2018 to 2024
Press release, 30/05/2017 (German version only)



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Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards

The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, endowed with a maximum of €1.65 € million and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is one Germany¡¯s most valuable prizes for outstanding early career researchers from abroad.


Joshua Barham (2019)

Joshua Barham

Press release, 16/08/2019 (German version only)

Low Volume, High Value

Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.


David Egger (2016)

David Egger

This material makes green energies more efficient

Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.


Pavel Buividovich (2012)

Pavel Buividovich

Faster computing, greater insight: enhanced analysis of experiments with particle accelerators

Awardee was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.



"Women in Data Science" at UR.? ? Julia Dragan/UR


Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prizes

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize has been awarded to excellent early career researchers by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 1977.


Tomer Czaczkes (2024)

Tomer Czaczkes

Behavioral Ecology

2024

Press release


Timothy Nunan (2020)

Timothy Nunan

Global History

Prizewinner was not yet member of UR when the prize was awarded.


Alexey Chernikov (2018)

Alexey Chernikov

Condensed Matter Physics

Press release, 28/03/2018 (German version only)

Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.


Fabian Theis (2006)

Fabian Theis

Biophysics/Mathematics/Informatics???

Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left


Gerd Kempermann (1999)

Gerd Kempermann

Neurosciences???

Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.



Emmy Noether Junior Research Group

Independent junior research groups currently funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:


Jan Wilhelm

Jan Wilhelm

since 2022

Real-time quantum simulations of ultrafast exciton dynamics with atomic resolution

Breaking the Waves. Jan Wilhelm leads the junior research group ¡°Computational Electronic Structure Theory¡± at UR¡¯s Institute for Theoretical Physics.


Sebastian Frank

Lukas Lewark

Lukas Lewark

since 2019 (at ETH Z¨¹rich since 08/2023)

Quantum invariants, knot concordance and unknotting
?


Christoph Engel


Focus on the Humanities (completed)

Fellow currently funded by the Freigeist Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:


Tatiana Klepikova

Tatiana Klepikova

Light On! Queer Literatures and Cultures under Socialism

2022 to 2027

Presse release, 12/05/2022 (German version only)

Pride and Prejudice. Tatiana Klepikova is UR¡¯s Freigeist Fellow, doing research on queer literatures and cultures


Timothy Nunan

Timothy Nunan

The Cold War's Clash of Civilizations: The Soviet Union, the Left, and the International Origins of Islamism

2016 to 2022 - Freigeist-Fellowship

Prizewinner was not yet member of UR when the prize was awarded.


Sabine Koller

Funded by the previous Dilthey Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:

Sabine Koller

Eastern European Jewry in Literature and Painting: Marc Chagall

2006 to 2012



"Rethinking the Balkans": History seminar project and exhibition in cooperation with UR's University Library. ? Tanja Wagensohn/UR


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