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E-Mail Four female and six male researchers are to receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize this year, the top award for early career investigators in Germany. This was the result of a decision made by a selection committee appointed by the DFG and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The prizes are each worth €20,000 and will be presented at an award ceremony on 4 May that is to be held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes 2021 go to: Dr. Julia Borst, Romance Literary Studies, University of Bremen Dr.-Ing. Silvia Budday, Biomechanics, University Erlangen-Nuremberg Dr. Josep Cornellà, Organic Molecular Chemistry, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim/Ruhr ....
Leibniz Prizes 2021: DFG awards four female and six male researchers The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) today awarded the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to four female and six male researchers. They had previously been selected from 131 nominees by the selection committee responsible. Of the ten prizewinners, there are two each from the humanities and social sciences, the natural sciences and the engineering sciences, and four from the life sciences. Each will receive prize money of €2.5 million. They are entitled to use these funds for their research work in any way they wish, without bureaucratic obstacles, for up to seven years.. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Joint Committee met by video conference. The Leibniz Prizes 2021 will be awarded virtually on 15 March. ....