Research Prizes

 

RWTH Aachen is proud to be the home institution of the recipients of various important research prizes.

 

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (DFG)

Year	Name
2019	Professor Matthias Wessling
2014	Professor Rainer Waser
2014	Professor Leif Kobbelt
2008	Professor Martin Beneke*
2002	Professor Wolfgang Dahmen*
2001	Professor Wolfgang Marquardt*
1995	Professor Siegfried Bethke*
1993	Professor Dieter Enders†
1990	Professor Norbert Peters†
1986	Professor Peter R. Sahm†

 

Alexander von Humboldt-Professuren (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

Year	Name
2018	Professor Wil van der Aalst
2018	Professor Raul Tempone
2011	Professor David Di Vincenzo
2010	Professor Matthias Wessling

 

Innovation Prize of the State of NRW (Innovation Category)

Year	Name
2013	Professor Christian Hopmann
2011	Professor Reinhart Poprawe

Innovation Prize of the State of NRW (Young Talent Category)

Year	Name
2019	Dr.-Ing. Valentine Gesché
2011	Professor Sonja Herres-Pawlis (then appointed at TU Dortmund University)
2010	Professor Regina Palkovits (then also appointed at The Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung)

 

Alfried Krupp Funding Award for Young University Professors (Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation)

Year	Name
2011	Professor Hendrik Bluhm
1987	Professor Heinrich Kurz†

 

Note: the prizewinners are either no longer full-time employees of RWTH (*) or are deceased (†)