2016 Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards granted
Six international research talents to receive up to €1.65 million each
The Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Thomas Rachel, and the Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Enno Aufderheide, will present the 2016 Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards to the winners in Berlin on 15 November. An invitation to the media will follow.
The recently selected award winners, their respective home country, last country of residence, research area and host institute are:
- Mazhar Ali, USA, Solid-state Physics, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale (Host is the Humboldt Professor Stuart Parkin)
- Michal P. Heller, Poland/Canada, Quantum Physics, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam-Golm
- Francesco Neri, Italy, Molecular Genetics, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI), Jena
- Faith Osier, Kenya, Medical Microbiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg Centre for Infectious Diseases
- William Shepherd, USA/Denmark, Elementary Particle Physics, Mainz University, Institute of Physics
- Safa Shoai, Iran/Australia, Organic Photovoltaics, University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy
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