Alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou Is Awarded Germany's Highest Scientific Prize, for her Breakthrough Findings on Human Evolution
Alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou Is Awarded Germany’s Highest Scientific Prize, for her Breakthrough Findings on Human Evolution Graduate Center alumna Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou (Ph.D. ’01, Anthropology) (known professionally as Katerina Harvati) was one of 10 scientists awarded a 2021 Leibniz Prize from the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), considered the most important research funding prize in Germany. The award, which includes prize money of 2.5 million euros, recognizes her groundbreaking findings on the evoluti...