This funding programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for pioneering research supports research projects that are “exceptionally innovative or carry high risks, in the positive sense”. It thus enables researchers to pursue projects that they cannot pursue at their respective home institutions.
Laureates
- 2020
Professor Andreas Marx, Department of Chemistry
Further information: Press release
- 2019
Professor Wolfgang Spohn, Department of Philosophy
Further information: Press release no. 70, 2019- 2017
Professor Wolfgang Seibel, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Further information: Press release no. 73, 2017
- 2017
Professor Wolfgang Seibel, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Further information: Press release no. 73, 2017
- 2012
Professor Katharina Holzinger, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Further information: Press release no. 73, 2012
- 2011
Professor Georg Maret, Department of Physics
- 2010
Professor Thomas Elbert, Department of Psychology
Professor Ulrik Brandes, Department of Computer and Information Science
- 2009
Professor Rudolf Schlögl, Centre of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration”