With up to 2.5 million €, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest endowed German research award. It is often referred to as the German Nobel Prize. The grant serves to improve the working conditions for scientists and scholars, expand their research possibilities, reduce administrative cost and make it easier to employ young academics.

Laureates

2022

Professor Iain Couzin, Department of Biology and Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior

 
2020

Professor Juliane Vogel, Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies

 
2010

Professor Jürgen Osterhammel, Department of History and Sociology


2003

Professor Albrecht Koschorke, Department of Literary Studies


2000

Professor Aditi Lahiri, Department of Linguistics


1998

Professor Regine Hengge-Aronis


1992

Professor Jürgen Mlynek, Department of Physics


1989

Professor Jürgen Mittelstraß, Department of Philosophy