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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded!
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
The ten scientists who today receive the DFG Leibniz Prize 2026 for their outstanding research and their major contributions in their respective fields.
The DFG is awarding each of the researchers 2.5 million euros.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important German research prize, offering the winners the best possible conditions for further work at the highest level.
DFG President Prof. Katja Becker congratulated the award winners together with DFG Secretary General Dr. Heide Ahrens, Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär, State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space Rolf-Dieter Jungk and Berlin Senator for Science, Health and Care Dr. Ina Maria Czyborra.
The Leibniz Prize winners 2026:
-Professor Dr. Klaus Blaum, Experimental Physics, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
-Professor Dr. Christian Doeller, Biological Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
-Professor Dr.-Ing. Christian Hasse, Energy Process Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt
– Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause, Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
– Prof. Dr. Julia Mahamid, Structural Biology, EMBL, Heidelberg
– Prof. Dr. Klaus-Robert Müller, Machine Learning, Technical University of Berlin, BIFOLD – Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data
– Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Technical University of Munich
– Prof. Dr. Armido Studer, Organic Molecular Chemistry, University of Münster
– Prof. Dr. Barbara Vetter, Theoretical Philosophy, Free University of Berlin
– Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch, Modern German Literature, University of Hamburg
Congratulations to all the winners and best wishes for continued success!
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