Leibniz Prizes

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, with prize money of up to 2.5 million euros, is Germany’s most important research prize. It is awarded annually by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is intended to improve the working and research conditions of outstanding researchers.

Award winners from the University of Tübingen and the Tübingen Max Planck Institutes:

2023 Prof. Dr. Largus T. Angenent, Geoscience (University of Tübingen)
2022 Prof. Dr. Mischa Meier, Ancient History (University of Tübingen)
2021 Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou, Paläoanthropologie (University of Tübingen and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Tübingen)
2018 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf – Machine Learning (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen)
2014 Prof. Dr. Lars Zender – Hepatology/Oncology (Tübingen University Hospitals)
2008 Honorarprof. Dr. Elisa Izaurralde – Biochemistry (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)
2007 Prof. Dr. Detlef Weigel – Plant Developmental Biology (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)
2001 Prof. Dr. Hans Keppler – Mineralogy (University of Tübingen)
1999 Prof. Dr. Volker Mosbrugger – Palaeontology (University of Tübingen)
1998 Prof. Dr. Wolf Bernd Frommer – Molecular Plant Physiology (University of Tübingen)
1996 Prof. Dr. Dieter Langewiesche – Modern History (University of Tübingen)
1995 Prof. Dr. Gerd Jürgens – Molecular Plant Biology (University of Tübingen)
1995 Prof. Dr. Niels Birbaumer – Psychophysiology (University of Tübingen)
1992 Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Rammensee – Immunology (MPI for Biology, Tübingen)
1988 Prof. Dr. Walter Haug – Early German Literature (University of Tübingen)
1988 Prof. Dr. Burghart Wachinger – Early German Literature (University of Tübingen)
1986 Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard – Biology (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)
1986 Prof. Dr. Herbert Jäckle – Biology (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)