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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.

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Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2020

Dr. Mar Rus-Calafell

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

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Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2019

Dr. Jan De Graaf

Jan De Graaf researches at the Social Movements Institute.

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Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2018

Dr. Hitoshi Omori

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

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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.

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Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2015

Professor Christian Straßer

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

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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

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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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