Academic Awards and Honours

In their history, the institutes of the Göttingen Campus have been highly successful in attracting the "best minds". The outstanding scientists have established the international reputation of the institutions and continue to shape their profile to this day. Here you will find a small selection of the long list of historical personalities who have studied or researched in Göttingen, as well as an overview of current award winners.

Latest Awards

  • Höchste europäische Anerkennung für Nachwuchsforschende geht an drei Göttinger Wissenschaftler*innen

    Der Europäische Forschungsrat (ERC) fördert die drei Wissenschaftler*innen am Göttingen Campus Hauke Hillen, Marieke Oudelaar und Saskia Limbach jeweils mit einem ERC Starting Grant in Höhe von 1,5 Millionen Euro für einen Zeitraum von fünf Jahren.
    Wie stellen die Kraftwerke der Zelle Proteine her? (UMG) Hauke Hillen, Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe „Struktur und Funktion molekularer Maschinen“ im Institut für Zellbiochemie der Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG), unabhängiger Forschungsgruppenleiter am Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für Multidisziplinäre Naturwissenschaften und Mitglied im Exzellenzcluster „Multiscale Bioimaging: Von molekularen Maschinen zu Netzwerken erregbarer Zellen“ (MBExC), wird…

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  • Research prize for chemist at Göttingen University

    Professor Lutz Ackermann’s research recognised in "Project of the Century" competition
    Professor Lutz Ackermann from the University of Göttingen has been awarded a prize in the "Project of the Century" competition of the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS). Ackermann's team and five others receive a prize of over one million euros each for their ideas. The award ceremony took place on Friday 16 June 2023 in Lucerne. In addition, the six teams will get the opportunity to apply to be a WSS research centre which would enable them to…

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  • Neuroscientist wins PhD prize of the German Primate Center

    Zurna Ahmed developed novel experimental environment for rhesus macaques
    The Sponsorship Association of the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research awards the PhD Prize to outstanding doctoral theses in which studies on monkeys play a central role. The prize is endowed with 1000 euros and is supported by the MacLean-Erkelenz Foundation. This year's winner is neuroscientist Zurna Ahmed. She is investigating how movements are planned in the brain. For her project, she developed a novel…

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  • ERC Advanced Grant for Sami Solanki

    The project WINSUN combines a new generation of observational data with computer simulations to provide a comprehensive view of the Sun's magnetic field.
    The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Prof. Dr. Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) one of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grants. Over the next five years, the funding, totaling 2.5 million euros, will make it possible to fundamentally advance and complete our picture of the Sun's magnetic field. To this end, Solanki is relying on a new generation of space missions and solar observatories that are…

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  • Award for branching worm named after Godzilla’s nemesis

    Ramisyllis kingghidorahi described by Göttingen University researchers in top 10 New Marine Species
    Branching marine worms are extremely rare: bizarre creatures with one head but a body that branches repeatedly into multiple posterior ends. Only three such species are known, and one of these worm species has just been awarded a place in the top-ten marine species from 2022 by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi after King Ghidorah, Godzilla’s monster enemy, the new species was first described by an…

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  • EU funding for novel mathematical approaches in biophysical research

    Aljaz Godec, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
    Aljaz Godec, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). With 2 million euros, the ERC will fund the work of Godec’s team for five years. The competition for the funding is fierce: The ERC selected only 371 of 2,222 applications in this round. “Receiving the Consolidator Grant is a fantastic validation of our…

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  • Science Award Lower Saxony 2022 for Medical Ethicist at the University Medical Center Göttingen

    Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiesemann, Director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, receives the Science Award Lower Saxony 2022.

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