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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

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The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an academic prize named after Alexander von Humboldt and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2008. The prize is intended to attract internationally leading scientists from abroad to Germany so that they can carry out top-level research there and strengthen Germany as a research location. The prize includes a permanent full professorship at the hosting university, plus 5 million euros for experimentally working scientists or 3.5 million euros for theoretically working scientists (in addition, the university is expected to provide matching funds). This makes it the most highly endowed research prize in Germany, and possibly world-wide. A maximum of ten Alexander von Humboldt Professorships can be awarded every year to researchers of all disciplines.[1] From 2020 to 2024, an additional six Humboldt Professorships in the field of artificial intelligence can be awarded each year.

Nominations are made by German universities, possibly in cooperation with research institutions. The award is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the framework of the International Research Fund for Germany.

List of Alexander von Humboldt Professorships

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The laureates are:[2]

2009:

2010:

2011:

2012:

  • Rolf Harald Baayen (born 1958), Dutch linguist
  • Friedrich Eisenbrand (born 1971), German mathematician (funding ended prematurely)
  • Jochen Guck (born 1973), German biophysicist
  • Hans-Arno Jacobsen (born 1969), German computer scientist
  • Robert Schober (born 1971), German engineer
  • Matthias Tschöp (born 1967), German physician
  • Michael Weiss (born 1955), German mathematician

2013:

  • Gregory Crane (born 1957), US-American classical philologist
  • Frank Fehrenbach (born 1963), German art historian
  • Michael Neil Forster (born 1957), US-American philosopher
  • Stephan Hartmann (born 1968), German philosopher of science
  • Michael Köhl [de] (born 1975), German physicist
  • Oskar Painter (born 1972), Canadian physicist (funding ended prematurely)
  • Wolfram Ruf (born 1958), German medical doctor

2014:

2015:

2016:

  • Till Winfried Bärnighausen (born 1969), German epidemiologist
  • Sven Bernecker (born 1967), German philosopher
  • William Crawley-Boevey (born 1960), British mathematician
  • Heinrich Jasper (born 1974), German molecular biologist
  • Tiffany Knight (born 1975), US ecologist and environmental researcher
  • Katrin Kogman-Appel (born 1958), Austrian Judaist
  • Judith Pfeiffer (born 1964), German Islamic scholar
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (born 1966), German solid-state physicist

2017:

  • Largus T. Angenent (born 1969), Dutch environmental microbiologist
  • Peter Baumann (born 1969), German cell biologist
  • Jijie Chai (born 1966), Chinese structural biologist
  • James F. Conant (born 1958), US-American philosopher
  • Wolf-Bernd Frommer (born 1958), German plant molecular biologist
  • Ran Hirschl (born 1963), Israeli constitutional lawyer

2018:

  • Anne van Aaken (born 1969), German jurist and economist
  • Wil van der Aalst (born 1966), Dutch computer scientist
  • B. Andrei Bernevig (born 1978), Romanian physicist
  • Marco Caccamo (born 1971), Italian computer scientist
  • Margaret C. Crofoot (born 1980), US biologist
  • Ewa Dąbrowska (born 1963), Polish linguist
  • Raul Fidel Tempone (born 1969), Italian-Uruguayan mathematician
  • Arno Rauschenbeutel [de] (born 1971), German quantum optician and nuclear physicist
  • Guus F. Rimmelzwaan (born 1959), Dutch virologist and immunobiologist
  • Michael Sieweke (born 1963), German cell biologist

2019:

2020:

2021:

2022:[3][4]

2023:[5][6]

2024:[8]

  • Fatih Ömer İlday [tr], (born in 1976) Turkey, physicist
  • Juan Daniel Prades Garcia, physicist
  • Ariel Dora Stern, economist
  • Arnim Wiek, sustainability scientist
  • Peter N. Robinson, computational biologist

References

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  1. ^ "About the Humboldt Professorship". Alexander von Humboldt-Professur. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  2. ^ "Preisträger Übersicht chronologisch". Alexander von Humboldt-Professur. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  3. ^ "Top international scientists to strengthen research work in Germany". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  4. ^ "New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  5. ^ "New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  6. ^ "Six new Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  7. ^ "Hanna Kokko - Humboldt Professorship 2023". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  8. ^ New Alexander von Humboldt Professors Selected for 2024, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, [access-date=2023-06-20].