Scientific Prizes – Leibniz University Hannover

The awarding of prizes to scientists and academics is a central part of promoting science and research. The success of the research conducted at Leibniz Universität is reflected in the research awards and honours received by its outstanding scientists as well as in the acknowledgement of their commitment to scientific academies and associations. Below you find a selection of science-prizes awarded to researchers at Leibniz Universität.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

2018: Dr. Sascha Fahl
2018: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang
2016: Dr. Olivier Namur
2015: Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
2013: Dr. Holger Johannes Pletsch
1993: Dr. M. Horn-von Hoegen

Humboldt-Research Award

2016: Prof. Dr. Varinder Kumar Aggarwal (Host Institution: Institute of Organic Chemistry)
2004: Prof. Han-Ill Yoo (Host Institution: Centre for Solid State Cemistry and New Materials)

SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD

2015: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang
2012: Dr. Tanja Gaich
2002: Dr. Luis Santos

GEORG FORSTER-RESEARCH AWARD

2015: Prof. Dr. Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux (Host Institution: Romanic Seminar)
2014: Dr.-Ing. habil. Jadambaa Temuujin (Host Institution: Institute of Mineralogy)
2012: Prof. Daya Reddy (Host Institution: Institute of Continuum Mechanics)

FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL-RESEARCH AWARD

2015: Prof. Dr. Samuel Grushevsky (Host Institution: Institute of Algebraic Geometry)
2007: Prof. Adrian Constantin (Host Institution: Institute of Applied Mathematics

ALFRIED-KRUPP-ADVANCEMENT AWARD

2015: Prof. Dr. Sami Haddadin

German Future Prize (Deutscher Zukunftspreis)

2017: Prof. Dr. Sami Haddadin (with Dr. Simon Haddadin and Sven Parusel)

KÖRBER-EUROPEAN SCIENCE PRIZE

2017: Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann

LOWER SAXONY STATE AWARD

2016: Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann
1999: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.H. mult. Heinz Haferkamp
1996: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Georg Musmann

SCIENCE AWARD LOWER SAXONY

2020: Prof. Dr. Katharina Müller & team (special award for cooperative innovations in digital teaching)
2018: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang (Category II: Junior researcher (m/f))
2016: Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann (Category I: Scientist (m/f))
2015: Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs (Category II: Junior researcher (m/f))
2014: Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper (Category I: Scientist (m/f))
2013: Carsten Klempt (Category II: Junior researcher (m/f))
2010: Matthias Schütt (Category II: Junior researcher (m/f))
2009: Antje Stokman (Category II: Junior researcher (m/f))
2009: Wolfgang Ertmer (Category I: Scientist (m/f))

Northern German Science Award

2020: Joint research project "Geodesy and Climate Research - Interactions between the Carbon and Water Cycle" (University of Bremen, Leibniz University Hannover, DLR Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing)

2014: ForWind Centre for Wind Energy Research (Leibniz University Hannover, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, University of Bremen, Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES Northwest, German Aerospace Center)