Outstanding awards and prizes are regularly bestowed on scientists based at JGU. In recent years these have represented a significant proportion of the third-party funds raised by the university.
Awards and prizes
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
- Prof. Peter Baumann: Cell biology
- Prof. Hanna Kokko: Theoretical evolutionary ecology
- Prof. Wolfram Ruf: Medicine
- Prof. Jairo Sinova: Theoretical physics
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
ERC Grants
ERC Advanced Grants
- Prof. Jan Esper: Modelling non-stationary tree growth responses to global warming
- Prof. Holger Frey: Random Copolymers Enabling Nonimmunogenic PEGylation for Medical Therapeutics
- Prof. Edward A. Lemke: Multiple Designer Organelles for Expanded Eukaryotic life
- Prof. Matthias Neubert: An Effective Field Theory for Non-Global Observables at Hadron Colliders
- Prof. Dan Song Xu: Tracing language and population mixing in the Gansu-Qinghai area
ERC Consolidator Grants
- Prof. Pol Besenius: Supramolecular engineering of glycan-decorated peptides as synthetic vaccines
- Prof. Boris Kaus: Melting And Geodynamic Models of Ascent
- Mustapha Laatiaoui: Laser Resonance Chromatography of Superheavy Metals
- Prof. Matthias Schott: Search for Axion-Like Particles at the LHC
- Prof. Marion Silies: Adaptive functions of visual systems
- Prof. Carsten Streb: Metal-Oxide Polymerization Chemistry: From Molecular Vanadium Oxide Monomers to Supramolecular Oligomers and Polymers
- Prof. Andreas Walther: Metabolic Mechanical Materials: Adaptation, Learning & Interactivity (M3ALI)
ERC Starting Grants
- Zachary Chitwood: Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)
- Christian Smorra: Symmetry Tests in Experiments with Portable Antiprotons
ERC Synergy Grants (JGU participates)
- Prof. Mathias Kläui: Three-dimensional magnetization textures: Discovery and control on the nanoscale (3D MAGiC)
Coordinator: Forschungszentrum Jülich - Prof. Bernd R. Schöne: Quantifying the impact of major cultural transitions on marine ecosystem functioning and biodiversity (SEACHANGE)
Coordinator: University of Exeter
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
- Prof. Dmitry Budker: NMR Search for the Dark-Matter Wind
- Prof. Thorsten Hoffmann: Chemistry in Nanometer Particles: Unique Breeding Sites for Oligomers?
- Prof. Ari Waisman: TRACINg: T-Cell Reactivation by Antigen Presenting Cells In the Central Nervous System
Heisenberg Programme
- Sergei Mariev: Bessarion and Byzantine Culture in public perception during the late 15th century
- Florian Menzel: Ant cuticular hydrocarbons: ecology, evolution and their role in species interactions
- Arash Nikoubashman: In silico – From theoretical models to bio-inspired materials
- Natalia Soshnikova: Molecular mechanisms of intestinal stem cell specification, maintenance and differentiation during development and disease
Emmy Noether Programme
- Prof. Janina Larissa Bühler: A longitudinal experience sampling study of personality-relationship transactions among couples of young, middle, and late adulthood: An in-depth assessment and analysis of underlying dynamics
- Prof. Nayla Fawzi: Alienation between the people, media and politics? Media and political cynicism from an audience and elite perspective
- Franziska Hagelstein: Hadronic Contributions to Precision Observables and New Physics Searches
- Prof. Julia Harz: Baryogenesis, Dark Matter and Neutrinos: Comprehensive analyses and accurate methods in particle cosmology
- Prof. Meret Huber: The role of DNA methylation in transgenerational stress resistance in a clonal plant
- Prof. Michael Kühn: Epigenetic control of leukemic gene expression by menin and wildtype MLL1 complex members.
- Alexander Mook: TopMagIc: Topological Magneto-Insulatronics
- Daniel Sasca: Rational p300/CREBBP KAT inhibition in AML