Science - Leibniz Prizes 2024: researchers receive 2.5 million euros
Ten scientists have been awarded the highly endowed Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize - including Ulrike Herzschuh, a geoecologist in Potsdam. The three female and seven male professors will each receive prize money of 2.5 million euros, which they can use for their research over the next seven years, as announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn on Thursday. They include four natural scientists, three life scientists as well as humanities scholars, social scientists and engineers. The prizes will be awarded on March 13, 2024 in Berlin.
The geoecologist Herzschuh (University of Potsdam and Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam) is being honored for her research on the influence of climate fluctuations in recent geological history on the biodiversity of polar regions. The findings are relevant because they allow important conclusions to be drawn about present-day climate developments.
According to the DFG, Tobias Erb (Synthetic Microbiology, University of Marburg) is researching carbon dioxide fixation in plants. He is working on artificial fixation pathways that are superior to natural ones. Neuropharmacologist Rohini Kuner(University of Heidelberg) is researching mechanisms of chronic pain. Eike Kiltz (Cryptography, University of Bochum) is honored for his work on encryption technology for digital information. The historian Jörn Leonhard (University of Freiburg) is honored for his work in the field of cultural and political history of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his standard works on the First World War and the subsequent post-war period.
The other prize winners are Dmitri Efetov (Experimental Solid State Physics, LMU Munich), the neuroscientist Moritz Helmstaedter (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main), Jonas Grethlein (Classics, University of Heidelberg), Peter Schreiner (Organic Molecular Chemistry, University of Giessen) and Eva Viehmann (Mathematics, University of Münster).
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Source: www.stern.de
