Outstanding awards held by Bochum researchers include the Anneliese Maier Research Award, the Max Planck Fellowship, and the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize.
With this award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has promoted the internationalisation of humanities and social sciences in Germany. The funding programme has been terminated.
Martin Muhler heads the Chair for Industrial Chemistry at Ruhr University as well as a workgroup at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.