Heisenberg Professorships

Professor Christopher Kyba has been awarded a Heisenberg Professorship in 2025. He researches the Earth from afar.

Prof. Dr. Maria Pohn-Lauggas hat 2024 eine Heisenberg-Professur erhalten. Sie erforscht die Auswirkungen kollektiver Gewaltvergangenheiten.

Professor Daniel Gutzmann was awarded a Heisenberg Professorship in 2022. He researches the context of language.

Michael Scherer was awarded a Heisenberg professorship in 2022. The physicist is in search of exotic quantum materials.

Professor Joachim Krause was awarded a Heisenberg Professorship in 2021. As theology scholar, he explores the intentions of texts in the Hebrew Bible.

Christian Merten was awarded a Heisenberg professorship in Physical Organic Chemistry in 2020. He specialises in stereochemistry and chiroptical spectroscopy.

Professor Henning Börm was awarded a Heisenberg Professorship in 2019. As part of his project, he is researching civil wars from a historical perspective.

Eva Weber-Guskar was awarded a Heisenberg professorship in 2019. She researches into living in time and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

Raúl Fonseca received a Heisenberg professorship in 2019. In his project he is researching, among other things, on rocks from the moon and from the deep sea.

Dolf Rami received a Heisenberg professorship in 2019. In his project he deals with questions of existence.

Hendrik Hildebrandt received a Heisenberg professorship in 2018. His project is called “Turning cosmic shear into a litmus test for the standard model of cosmology”.

Christian Stump received a Heisenberg professorship for Noncrossing phenomena in Algebra and Geometry in 2017.

Gregor Leander received the Heisenberg Professorship for Symmetric Cryptography in 2015.