Department 1 - Strategy and External Relations Head of Department Dr Judith Wellen Strategy and External Relations judith.wellen[at]avh.de +49 228 833 118 Programme Director Christopher Marx Strategy
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With a value of five million euros, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most highly-endowed research award in Germany and draws top international researchers to German universities.
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Press Release
9/2026
Humboldt Foundation President Robert Schlögl and Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär confer Germany’s most valuable international research awards.
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This year’s prize, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), goes to the Polish literary scholar, Jadwiga Kita-Huber.
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How many Humboldt Professorships are being awarded? What is the purpose of the award funds? Can Germans receive the award? Who can nominate candidates for the Humboldt Professorship? When are decisions made, negotiations conducted and awards granted?
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The research conducted by the chemist and materials scientist Christopher Barner-Kowollik facilitates the development of high-precision materials and surfaces for specific applications in medicine, nanotechnology and materials development. He is invited to continue his work on new materials and polymer-based systems at KIT.
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Sebastian Deindl is a biophysicist whose research results are of exceptional importance both to basic research and to medicine. By appointing him to a Humboldt Professorship, the University of Tübingen wants to continue driving its leading international position in structural biology.
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The economist Michael Weber is a world-leading authority on household finance and inflation. The ESMT Berlin (European School of Management and Technology) is seeking to harness Weber’s expertise to develop the “European Expectations Center.”
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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2026 Reinhard Maurer Reinhard Maurer is a pioneer in the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to theoretical chemistry. The methods
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The biochemist Simon Elsässer is a world leader in the technological and methodological development of epigenetics and synthetic biology. At the University of Freiburg, he wants to to reinforce and expand the research focus on the “Signals of Life.”
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