Academic and Scientific Awards Received – 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 University Hannover 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 will find a selection of the science prizes awarded to researchers at Leibniz University Hannover from 2015.

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize

2023: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Elina Fuchs
2018: Dr. Sascha Fahl
2018: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang
2016: Dr. Olivier Namur
2015: Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Humboldt Research Award

2022: Prof. Dr. Thomas Christian Gasser (Host: Institute of Continuum Mechanics)
2022: Prof. Dr. Demircan Canadinc (Host: Institute of Materials Science)
2022: Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène (Host:Institute of Algebra, Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics und Institute of Algebraic Geometry)
2021: Prof. Dr. Anatoly V. Zayats (Host: Institute of Quantum Optics)
2021: Prof. Dr. Richmond Sarpong (Host: Institute of Organic Chemistry)
2020: Prof. Dr. Enrico Zio (Host: Institute for Risk and Reliability)
2019: Prof. Dr. Olivier Allix (Host: Institute of Continuum Mechanics )
2019: Prof. Dr. Alexander F. Vakakis (Host: Institute of Dynamics and Vibration Research)
2019: Prof. Dr. Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (Host: Institute of Inorganic Chemistry)
2019: Prof. Dr. Quill R. Kukla (Host: Institute of Philosophy)
2017: Prof. Dr. Kok Kwang Phoon (Host: Institute for Risk and Reliability)
2016: Prof. Dr. Varinder Kumar Aggarwal (Host: Institute of Organic Chemistry)

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

2024: Prof. Dr. Robert Raußendorf

Max Planck Medal

2025: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Werner

Gauss-Newton Medal

2024: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Wriggers

Helmholtz Prize

2024: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Roth (LUH, Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies and the PhoenixD Cluster of Excellence) and Prof. Dr. Steffen Emmert (University Medical Centre Rostock)

SOFJA KOVALEVSKAJA AWARD

2015: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang

GEORG FORSTER RESEARCH AWARD

2022: Prof. Dr. Esra Capanoglu Guven (Host: Institute of Food and One Health)
2021: Prof. Dr. Juanita Bornman (Host: Institute of Special Education)
2015: Prof. Dr. Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux (Host: Romanic Seminar)

FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL RESEARCH AWARD

2021: Prof. Dr. Karabi Biswas (Host: Institute of Electrical Engineering and Measurement Technology)

2015: Prof. Dr. Samuel Grushevsky (Host: Institute of Algebraic Geometry)

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

SCIENCE AWARD LOWER SAXONY

2023: Prof. Dr. Mathias Frisch and Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt (Category: Scientist)
2022: Dr. Clemens Hübler (Category: Junior researcher)
2022: Dr. Katja Politt (Category: Teaching award)
2020: Prof. Dr. Katharina Müller and team (Special award for cooperative innovations in digital teaching)
2018: Dr. Xiaoying Zhuang (Category: Junior researcher)
2016: Prof. Dr. Karsten Danzmann (Category: Scientist)
2015: Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs (Category: Junior researcher)

Northern German Science Award

2024: Collaborative project "T-NORTH: Transferpfade norddeutscher Universitäten in der biomedizinischen Forschung" (Leibniz University Hannover, University of Hamburg)

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)