List of Alexander von Humboldt Professorships

The list of holders of an Alexander von Humboldt professorship provides an overview of the scientists who have been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt professorship .

Only those people are listed who have accepted the award and have taken up the professorship. If the funding was terminated before the end of the regular five-year term, this is noted.

Appointed Humboldt Professors

2009

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• Oliver Brock (* 1969), German computer scientist
• Piet Wibertus Brouwer (* 1971), Dutch theoretical solid-state physicist
• Gia Dwali (* 1964), Georgian particle physicist and cosmologist
• Ulrike Gaul (1960–2020), German developmental biologist
• Norbert Langer (* 1958), German astrophysicist
• Martin B. Plenio (* 1968), German quantum optician
• Burkhard Rost (* 1961), German bioinformatician

2010

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• Marc Levine (* 1952), American mathematician
• Jürgen Margraf (* 1956), German psychologist
• Gerard J. van den Berg (* 1962), Dutch economist
• Philip van der Eijk (* 1962), Dutch classical philologist
• Matthias Wessling (* 1963), German process engineer

2011

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• Harald Clahsen (* 1955), German psycholinguist
• David DiVincenzo (* 1959), American physicist
• Brian Foster (* 1954), British elementary particle physicist
• Gerhard Kramer (* 1970), Canadian-German communications engineer
• Dirk Kreimer (* 1960), German theoretical physicist
• Hannes Leitgeb (* 1972), Austrian philosopher and mathematician
• Vahid Sandoghdar (* 1966), Iranian-American physicist
• Alec Wodtke (* 1959), American chemist

2012

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• Rolf Harald Baayen (* 1958), Dutch linguist
• Friedrich Eisenbrand (* 1971), German mathematician (funding ended early)
• Jochen Guck (* 1973), German biophysicist
• Hans-Arno Jacobsen (* 1969), German computer scientist
• Robert Schober (* 1971), German engineer
• Matthias Tschöp (* 1967), German physician
• Michael Weiss (* 1955), German mathematician

2013

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• Gregory Crane (* 1957), American classical philologist
• Frank Fehrenbach (* 1963), German art historian
• Michael Neil Forster (* 1957), American philosopher
• Stephan Hartmann (* 1968), German scientific theorist
• Michael Köhl (* 1975), German physicist
• Oskar Painter (* 1972), Canadian physicist (funding ended early)
• Wolfram Ruf (* 1958), German physician

2014

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• Giuseppe Caire (* 1965), Italian information theorist
• Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (* 1968), French immunobiologist
• Stefanie Engel (* 1968), German environmental economist
• Stuart Parkin (* 1955), British physicist
• Andreas S. Schulz (* 1969), German mathematician
• Jairo Sinova (* 1972), Spanish-American physicist
• Hidenori Takagi (* 1961), Japanese physicist

2015

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• Elisabeth Décultot (* 1968), French literary scholar
• Harald Andrés Helfgott (* 1977), Peruvian mathematician
• Sharon Jeanette Macdonald (* 1961), British ethnologist
• Karen Radner (* 1971), Austrian ancient orientalist
• Marja Timmermans (* 1964), plant geneticist

2016

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• Till Winfried Bärnighausen (* 1969), German epidemiologist
• Sven Bernecker (* 1967), German philosopher
• William Crawley-Boevey (* 1960), British mathematician
• Heinrich Jasper (* 1974), German molecular biologist
• Tiffany Knight (* 1975), American ecologist and environmental researcher
• Katrin Kogman-Appel (* 1958), Austrian Judaist
• Judith Pfeiffer (* 1964), German scholar of Islam
• Wolfgang Wernsdorfer (* 1966), German solid-state physicist

2017

• Largus T. Angenent (* 1969), Dutch environmental microbiologist
• Peter Baumann (* 1969), German cell biologist
• Jijie Chai (* 1966), Chinese structural biologist
• James Conant (* 1958), American philosopher
• Wolf-Bernd Frommer (* 1958), German plant molecular biologist
• Ran Hirschl (* 1963), Israeli constitutional lawyer

2018

• Anne van Aaken (* 1969), German lawyer and economist
• Wil van der Aalst (* 1966), Dutch computer scientist
• Bogdan Andrei Bernevig (* 1978), Romanian physicist
• Marco Caccamo (* 1971), Italian computer scientist
• Margaret C. Crofoot (* 1980), American biologist
• Ewa Dąbrowska (* 1963), Polish linguist
• Raul Fidel Tempone (* 1969), Italian-Uruguayan mathematician
• Arno Rauschenbag (* 1971), German quantum optician and atomic physicist
• Guus F. Rimmelzwaan (* 1959), Dutch virologist and immunobiologist
• Michael Sieweke (* 1963), German cell biologist

2019

• Malte Gather , physicist
• Anke Hoeffler , economist
• Jens Meiler , structural biologist
• Alexandre Obertelli (* 1978), nuclear physicist
• Stefanie Petermichl (* 1971), mathematician
• Dietmar Schmucker , neuroscientist
• Henning Walczak (* 1966), immunologist
• Enrique Zuazua (* 1961), mathematician

2020

• Peter Dayan (* 1965), theoretical neuroscientist
• Francisco Jesus Moreno-Fernández , linguist
• Kristian Franze , biophysicist
• Daniel Rückert , computer scientist (AI)

Planned professorships

The nominating universities will enter into appointment negotiations with the scientists awarded for 2021 :

• Oskar Hallatschek , biophysicist
• Christoph Keplinger , robotics
• Kou Murayama , psychologist
• Bart Thomma , microbiologist
• Thorsten Wagener , hydrologist

Web links

• Website of the Humboldt Professorship

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prize Winner 2009
2. ↑ Prize winners 2010
3. ↑ Winner 2011
4. ↑ Prize winners 2012
5. ↑ Paul Janositz: satisfaction in Germany Tagesspiegel , June 14, 2012
6. ↑ Friedrich Eisenbrand ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Roland Preuß: Five Years of Humboldt Professorships: Criticisms are recognizable, yes obviously Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 7, 2014
8. ↑ Prize winners 2013
9. ↑ MPL: Newsletter 08/2015
10. ^ Oskar Painter
11. ↑ 2014 award winners
12. ↑ Prize winners 2015
13. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt Professorship - New Humboldt Professors selected. In: humboldt-professur.de. May 28, 2015, accessed May 29, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt Professorship - New Alexander von Humboldt Professors selected. In: humboldt-professur.de. October 26, 2015, accessed October 26, 2015 .