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. 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. Edward A. Lemke: Multiple Designer Organelles for Expanded Eukaryotic life
- 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. Harvey B. Meyer: Strong-interaction matter coupled to electroweak probes and dark matter candidates
- Prof. Matthias Schott: Search for Axion-Like Particles at the LHC
- Prof. Thomas Tütken: Evolution of herbivory in vertebrates: developing combined isotope (Ca, Sr) and dental surface texture analysis as deep time diet proxies
- Prof. Andreas Walther: Metabolic Mechanical Materials: Adaptation, Learning & Interactivity (M3ALI)
ERC Starting Grants
- Dionysos Antypas: Tests Of Fundamental Physics With Atomic Parity Violation in Ytterbium
- Zachary Chitwood: Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)
- Prof. Marion Silies: Microcircuitry of the Drosophila visual system
- Christian Smorra: Symmetry Tests in Experiments with Portable Antiprotons
- Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko: How dendritic mRNA and protein distributions shape synaptic plasticity (MolDynForSyn)
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
- Prof. Heike Drotbohm: Anthropology of Care Practices
- Prof. Brian Luke: The transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of non-coding RNA and RNA-DNA hybrids at telomeres and beyond
- 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
- Prof. Krishnaraj Rajalingam: Understanding the molecular machinery driving basic cellular processes with relevance to the pathogenesis of cancer and auto immune disorders
- Natalia Soshnikova: Molecular mechanisms of intestinal stem cell specification, maintenance and differentiation during development and disease
Emmy Noether Programme
- 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
- Michael Kühn: Epigenetische Veränderungen von Leukämien
- Arash Nikoubashman: Controlled Transport and Assembly of Soft Complex Matter
- Kristina Suchotzki: What lies beneath lies? Integrating cognitive and emotional experimental approaches to deception