Alexander von Humboldt Professorship


The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an academic prize named after Alexander von Humboldt and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2008. The prize is intended to attract internationally leading scientists from abroad to Germany so that they can carry out top-level research there and strengthen Germany as a research location. The prize includes a permanent full professorship at the hosting university, plus 5 million euros for experimentally working scientists or 3.5 million euros for theoretically working scientists. This makes it the most highly endowed research prize in Germany, and possibly world-wide. A maximum of ten Alexander von Humboldt Professorships can be awarded every year to researchers of all disciplines. From 2020 to 2024, an additional six Humboldt Professorships in the field of artificial intelligence can be awarded each year.
Nominations are made by German universities, possibly in cooperation with research institutions. The award is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the framework of the International Research Fund for Germany.

List of Alexander von Humboldt Professorships

The laureates are:
2009:
2010:
2011:
2012:
2013:
2014:
  • Giuseppe Caire, Italian information theorist
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier, French immunobiologist
  • Stefanie Engel, German environmental economist
  • Stuart Parkin, British physicist
  • Andreas S. Schulz, German mathematician
  • , Spanish-US-American physicist
  • , Japanese physicist
2015:
2016:
2017:
  • Largus T. Angenent, Dutch environmental microbiologist
  • Peter Baumann, German cell biologist
  • Jijie Chai, Chinese structural biologist
  • James F. Conant, US-American philosopher
  • Wolf-Bernd Frommer, German plant molecular biologist
  • Ran Hirschl, Israeli constitutional lawyer
2018:
  • Anne van Aaken, German jurist and economist
  • Wil van der Aalst, Dutch computer scientist
  • B. Andrei Bernevig, Romanian physicist
  • Marco Caccamo, Italian computer scientist
  • Margaret C. Crofoot, US biologist
  • Ewa Dąbrowska, Polish linguist
  • Raul Fidel Tempone, Italian-Uruguayan mathematician
  • , German quantum optician and nuclear physicist
  • Guus F. Rimmelzwaan, Dutch virologist and immunobiologist
  • Michael Sieweke, German cell biologist
2019:
2020:
2021:
2022:
2023:
2024:
  • ,, Turkish physicist
  • Juan Daniel Prades Garcia, physicist
  • Ariel Dora Stern, economist
  • Arnim Wiek, sustainability scientist
  • Peter N. Robinson, computational biologist