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Award Winners
Nobel Laureates
Nobel Prize in Physics Peter Andreas Grünberg Adjunct Professor 2007Nobel Prize in Chemistry Professor Dr. Kurt Alder Chair in Chemistry 1950
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Prof. Dr. Anne Storch (2017) Institute for African Studies and Egyptology - Faculty of Arts and Humanities Prof. Dr. Achim Rosch (2013) Institute of Theoretical Physics – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Prof Dr. Martin Zirnbauer (2009) Institute of Theoretical Physics – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Prof. Dr. Jens Claus Brüning (2007) Institute of Genetics – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Prof. Dr. Thomas Mussweiler (2006) (since 11/2016 no longer at the university) Institute of Psychology – Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels (2005) Department of Governance and Public Policy – Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Martin Krönke (2001) Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene – Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Andreas Kablitz (1997) Department of Romance Studies – Faculty of Arts and Humanities Prof. Dr. Ulf-Ingo Flügge (1996) Botanical Institute – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Prof. Dr. Thomas Schweizer (†) (1995) Institute of Ethnology – Faculty of Arts and Humanities Prof. Dr. Peter Schneider (1992) Mathematics – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Humboldt Professorship
Prof. Dr. Bart Thomma , Wageningen University, Phytopathology (2021) Prof. Dr. Malte Gather , University of St Andrews, Schottland, Nanobiophotonics (2019) Prof. Dr. Henning Walczak, University College London, Cancer Biology (2019) Prof. Dr. Jijie Chai , Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Structural Biology (2017) Prof. Dr. Sven Bernecker , University of California, Irvine, USA, Theoretical Philosophy (2016)
Humboldt Research Award
Professor Tracy C. Davis , Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, Theatre studies and media studies (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx) (2015) Professor Kathleen J. Green , Northwestern University, Chicago, USA (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Carien M. Niessen) (2015)
Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize
ERC-Grant
ERC Starting Grant Dr. Cedrick Ansorge , Institute for Genetics (2019) Dr. Alexander Blanke , Zoological Institute (2018) Prof. Dr. Clemens Kroneberg , Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS) (2017) Prof. Dr. -Ing. Gregor Gassner , Mathematical Institute (2017) Dr. David Vilchez , CECAD/Institute for Genetics (2016) Prof. Dr. Florian Klein , Director at the Institute of Virology, University Hospital Cologne (2016) Prof. Dr. Matteo Bergami - CECAD/Institute for Genetics (2016) Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner , Institute of Physics I (2016) Prof. Ingo Rohlfing , PhD , Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (2015) Prof. Dr. Kathrin Bringmann , Mathematical Institute (2014)ERC Consolidator Grant ERC Advanced Grant
Further Prizes
Cologne Innovation Prize (City of Cologne) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Innovation Prize of the State of NRW Outstanding Achievement Award, American Diabetes Association German Cancer Prize Communicator Prize Max Planck Medal Lichtenberg Professorship Heisenberg Professorship Reinhart Koselleck- Research Prize
Further Award Winners
Prof Dr. Peter Hanau, Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) (2009)
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