Scientists – Awards and Grants
Physicist Rupert Huber with Early Career Scientists at UR's Faculty of Physics. ? UR | Photo: David Ausserhofer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest and most prestigious German research award. Since 1985, up to ten prizes with a maximum of �2.5 million each have been awarded annually by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to outstanding scientists working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad.
Rupert Huber (2019)
Rupert Huber
Experimental Physics, Read more
Press release, 14/03/2019 (German version only).
The Quantum World in Motion
The Physicist Rupert Huber Strives for a New Level of Understanding of the Nanocosmos.
Reinhard Zimmermann (1996)
Legal History and Civil Law
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
Karl Otto Stetter (1988)
Microbiology
Prizewinner was member of UR when the award was received but has since left.
ERC Grants
With its funding lines Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent frontier research projects.
ERC Starting Grants
Markus Jeschek
BiosenSAI
2023
Claudius Zibrowius?
CAPCAM
2023
Joshua Barham
HELIOS
2022
Tomer Czaczkes ?
COGNITIVE CONTROL
2020
Press release, 03/09/2020 (German version only)
Isabella Gierz
DANCE
2019
Press release, 03/09/2019 (German version only)
Alexander Breder ?|?
ELDORADO
2018
Rupert Huber ?
QUANTUMsubCYCLE
2012
John Lupton ?
MolMesON
2012
Georg Woltersdorf ?|?
ECOMAGICS
2011
Sylvia Maria Cremer-Sixt ?|?
SOCIALVACCINES
2009
Gunter Meister ?|?
sRNAs
2009
? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed
?
ERC Consolidator Grants
Hendrik Poeck
MICROBOTS
2023
Press release, 23/11/2023 (German version only)
Alexey Chernikov??|?
CoulENGINE
2020
Press release, 11/12/2020 (German version only)
Robert Wolf
FunctionalP4
2017
Press release, 21/12/2017 (German version only)
Olga García Mancheno ?|?
FRICatANions
2016
Gunter Meister ?
moreRNA
2015
Axel Jacobi von Wangelin ?|?
FeREDcoupls
2015
Ruth Gschwind ?
IonPairsAtCatalysis
2013
Remco Sprangers ?|?
mRNA-decay
2013
? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed
ERC Advanced Grants
Veronica Egger
COLUMNET
2025
Dieter Weiss?
ProMotion
2017
Press release, 12/04/2018 (German version only)
Burkhard K?nig ?
PHAROS
2016
Manfred Scheer ?
SELFPHOS
2013
Christoph Klein ?
ISIS
2012
? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed
ERC Synergy Grants
Christine Ziegler
HYDROSENSING
2023
Press release, 26/10/2023
Ulrich Hoefer / Rupert Huber
Orbital Cinema
2022
Press release, 25/10/2022 (German version only)
Jascha Repp
MolDAM
2020
Press release, 05/11/2020 (German version only)
J?rg Wunderlich ?|?
SC2
2013
? ERC grantee was not yet at UR at the time of application
? ERC grantee has left UR
? project completed
Dr. Tomer Czaczkes at UR's "Uni goes downtown".?? Julia Dragan/UR
Distinguished Professorship
The Distinguished Professorship Program is part of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts' High-Tech Agenda Bavaria.
Julie Casteigt
Julie Casteigt
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Press release 01/09/2025 (German version only)
? Prof. Dr. Julie Casteigt. ? University of Regensburg | Photo: Julia Dragan
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
The Reinhart Koselleck Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supports outstanding scientists in carrying out exceptionally innovative or higher-risk projects with a maximum of �1.25 million for five years.
Luca Gattinoni
Luca Gattinoni
Reprogramming CD8+ T cell metabolism and fate by MSC mitochondrial transfer
Subject Area: Immunology
2022 to 2027
Press release, 12/19/2022 (German version only)