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

  • Millions in funding for interstellar astrochemistry research

    548 project proposals were submitted for the competitiv Synergy Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) this year; only 10 percent were successful. One of them is IRASTRO, a joint research project of Alec Wodtke, Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen (Germany), Liv Hornekær from Aarhus University (Denmark), Peter Saalfrank from the University of Potsdam (Germany), and Varun Verma from the…

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  • Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for MPS Scientist

    Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos looks into the past of our star and analyzes historical solar observations. Now he has received an important award.
    For his research findings on the historical activity of the Sun, the European Space Weather and Space Climate Association has honored Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany with the Alexander Chizhevsky Medal. The award was presented yesterday during the European Space Weather Week in Coimbra, Portugal. In his research, the scientist looks into the past of our star and uses historical…

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  • Award for MPS-Director

    Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki receives the Zdenĕk Švetska Senior Prize for his pioneering contributions to solar research.
    The Solar Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) has honored Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), with the Zdenĕk Švetska Senior Prize. The award recognizes the leading role that the Göttingen scientist has for decades played in solar research. During this time, Solanki not only enriched his field of research with significant results regarding the Sun's magnetism and…

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  • New approaches to synthesize compounds for pharmaceutical research

    Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation awards Exploration Grant to Göttingen University researcher
    Junior Professor Johannes Walker, University of Göttingen, has been awarded an Exploration Grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation. Walker teaches and carries out research at the Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. The award of 180,000 euros will enable Walker and his team to develop new approaches to synthesizing new compounds. “The aim of our project is to develop new strategies for the synthesis of a particular group of…

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  • 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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