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Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards

With this award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation helps successful early career researchers set up their own workgroup.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2020

Dr. Mar Rus-Calafell

Mar Rus-Calafell is affiliated with the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2019

Dr. Jan De Graaf

Jan De Graaf researches at the Social Movements Institute.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2018

Dr. Hitoshi Omori

Hitoshi Omori and his workgroup are part of the Department of Philosophy I.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2016

Professor Clara Saraceno

Clara Saraceno heads the Workgroup Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science at the Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2015

Professor Christian Straßer

At the Institute for Philosophy II, Christian Straßer heads the Workgroup Non-Monotonic Logics and Formal Argumentation.

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2011

Professor Eike Kiltz

Eike Kiltz heads the Chair for Cryptography at the Faculty of Mathematics.

Awards of Former Ruhr University Researchers

2002: Professor Maxim Polyakov

Good to Know

With prize money of up to 1.65 million euros per award winner, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award enables scientists from overseas to continue their excellent research or begin a new research project. Over a period of five years, the award winners can undertake their own project with their own research group at an institute of their choice.

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