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The Start Prize (its own spelling: START Prize ) is Austria's most highly endowed and most recognized science prize for young researchers.
The prize, which is advertised once a year by the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) and awarded by the Federal Minister of Education, Science and Culture , was launched in 1996 by the then Minister of Science Rudolf Scholten ( SPÖ ) and is worth up to 1.2 million euros endowed.
The winners are selected by an international jury of 13 experts, whose members come from renowned research institutions and institutes such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The funding from the prize is made available to the researchers for a period of six years, with no quota restrictions on individual scientific disciplines. While you are nominated for the Wittgenstein Prize , you have to apply for the START Prize with a project application.
Award winners
- 1996 Christian Koeberl , Ferenc Krausz , Ulrich Schmid , Peter Szmolyan , Karl Unterrainer , Harald Weinfurter , Gerhard Woeginger , Jakob Woisetschläger
- 1997 Gerhard Holzapfel , Bernhard Palme , Michael Schmid
- 1998 Peter Grabner , Gottfried Kirchengast , Rudolf Valenta , Gerhard Widmer
- 1999 Christoph Marschner , Norbert Mauser , Otmar Scherzer , Thomas Schrefl , Christoph Spötl , Joseph Strauss
- 2000 Thomas Brabec , Susanne Kalss , Dietrich Leibfried , Herbert Strobl , Bernhard Tilg
- 2001 Markus Arndt , Michael Buchmeiser , Wolfgang Drexler , Wilfried Ellmeier , Clemens Sedmak
- 2002 Wolfgang Heiss , Michael Jursa , Georg Schett , Dieter Schmalstieg , Joachim Schöberl
- 2003 Georg Kresse , Hanns-Christoph Nägerl , Andreas Villunger
- 2004 Thomas Bachner , Michael Kunzinger , Vassil Palankovski , Thomas Prohaska , Gerhard Schütz
- 2005 Michael Hintermüller , Matthias Horn , Andrea Lusser , Michael Moser , Norbert Zimmermann
- 2006 Hartmut Häffner , Norbert Polacek , Piet Schmidt , Josef Teichmann , Gerald Teschl
- 2007 Kathrin Breuker , Thomas Bugnyar , Otfried Gühne , Bernhard Lamel , Thomas Lörting , Paul Mayrhofer , Sigrid Wadauer , Thomas Wallnig
- 2008 Markus Aspelmeyer , Tom J. Battin , Massimo Fornasier , Daniel Grumiller , Alexander Kendl , Karel Riha , Kristin Tessmar-Raible , Christina Waldsich
- 2009 Francesca Ferlaino , Ilse Fischer , Arthur Kaser , Manuel Kauers , Thorsten Schumm , David Teis
- 2010 Julius Brennecke , Barbara Horejs , Barbara Kraus , Melanie Malzahn , Florian Schreck , Bojan Zagrovic
- 2011 Peter Balazs , Thomas Müller , Agata Ciabattoni , Peter Rabl , Sebastian Diehl , Michael Sixt , Alwin Köhler , Philip Walther
- 2012 Franz Schuster , Jürgen Hauer , Michael Kirchler , Alexander Dammermann , Sofia Kantorovich , Julia Budka , Kaan Boztug
- 2013 Stefan L. Ameres , Notburga Gierlinger , Clemens Heitzinger , Georgios Katsaros , David A. Keays , Ovidiu Paun , Thomas Pock , Paolo Sartori , Stefan Woltran
- 2014 Bettina Bader , Mathias Beiglböck , Karin Schnass , René Thiemann , Sigrid Neuhauser , Alexander Grüneis , Markus Aichhorn , Manuel Schabus
- 2015 Christoph Aistleitner , Ivona Brandic , Marcus Huber , Peter Lanyon , Gareth Parkinson , Rupert Seidl , Kristina Stöckl , Caroline Uhler
- 2016 Christopher Campbell , Felix Höflmayer , Nikolai Kiesel , Tracy Northup , Michael Eichmair , Harald Grobner
- 2017 Hannes Fellner , Claudine Kraft , Wolfgang Lechner , Vera Fischer , Miriam Unterlass , Andrea Pauli
- 2018 Emanuela Bianchi , Josef Norbert Füssl , Philipp Haslinger , Oliver Hofmann , Robert R. Junker , Gina Elaine Moseley
- 2019 Moritz Brehm , Christa Cuchiero , Bruno de Nicola , Christoph Gammer , José Luis Romero , Richard Wilhelm
- 2020 Alice Auersperg , Elisa Davoli , Gemma De las Cuevas , Robert Ganian , Julia Lajta-Novak , Aleksandar Matkovic , Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt
Web links
- FWF page at the START price
- START program (with photos of the award winners)
Individual evidence
- ↑ orf.at - "Austro Nobel Prize" to Byzantinist Rapp . Article dated June 8, 2015, accessed June 8, 2015.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Neuroscientist Peter Jonas receives Wittgenstein Prize 2016 . Article dated June 13, 2016, accessed June 13, 2016.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Starting prices for six young researchers . Article dated June 19, 2017, accessed June 19, 2017.
- ↑ Wittgenstein Prizes 2018 to the computer scientist and mathematician Herbert Edelsbrunner and to the ethnomusicologist Ursula Hemetek . OTS notification dated June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.
- ↑ Philipp Ther and Michael Wagner named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winners . OTS notification dated June 17, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Wittgenstein prizes awarded to historians and microbiologists . Article dated June 17, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019.
- ^ Mathematician Adrian Constantin named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winner. In: fwf.ac.at. Science Fund FWF, June 17, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2020 .