Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prizes 2025
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The Leibniz Prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is Germany’s most prestigious research funding award, providing €2.5 million in prize money. This year, it recognizes ten scientists, granting them seven years of research freedom.
The 2025 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany’s most prestigious research award, has been granted to 10 outstanding scientists selected from 142 nominees.
This year’s awardees represent a diverse range of fields:
📚 2 from the humanities & social sciences
🧬 4 from the life sciences
🔬 3 from the natural sciences
🛠️ 1 from engineering
Each recipient will receive €2.5 million in funding, giving them up to seven years of research freedom with no bureaucratic hurdles.
Prizewinners 2025:
- Volker Haucke, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin
- Hannes Leitgeb, Theoretical Philosophy, LMU Munich
- Bettina Valeska Lotsch, Solid State and Materials Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
- Wolfram Pernice, Experimental Physics, University of Heidelberg
- Ana Pombo, Genome Biology, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
- Daniel Rueckert, Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich
- Angkana Rüland, Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn
- Michael Seewald, Catholic Theology, University of Münster
- Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Epigenetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München
- Robert Zeiser, Hemato-Oncology, University Hospital Freiburg