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Awards and Honours
Artemis Alexiadou ML , Member of the Cultural Studies Section , was admitted to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Annette Beck-Sickinger ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was awarded the Richard Willstätter Prize for Chemical Biology 2023 by the joint section Chemical Biology of the DECHEMA Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology ( Frankfurt am Main / Germany ), the German Pharmaceutical Society ( DPhG ) ( Frankfurt am Main / Germany ), the Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ( GBM ) ( Frankfurt am Main / Germany ) and the German Chemical Society ( GDCh ) ( Frankfurt am Main / Germany ).
Antje Boetius ML , Member of the Geosciences Section , was awarded the “ Goldenes Lot ” award by the Association of German Surveyors ( VDV ) ( Wuppertal / Germany ). She was also honoured by the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers ( DHV ) ( Bonn / Germany ) as University Professor of the Year . In addition , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation ( KAS ) ( Berlin / Germany ) appointed her Fellow for 2023 and she received the Ernst Ludwig Winnacker Award from the Bayer Foundation ( Leverkusen / Germany ).
Lars Chittka ML , Member of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section , was elected as Fellow 2022 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ) ( Washington / USA ).
Karl Deisseroth ML , Member of the Neurosciences Section , was awarded the Japan Prize by the Japan Prize Foundation ( Tokyo / Japan ) in the Life Sciences category .
Ivan Đikić ML , Member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , was awarded the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine by the Louis-Jeantet Foundation ( Geneva / Switzerland ).
Ottmar Edenhofer ML , Member of the Economics and Empirical Social Sciences Section , was awarded the Bavarian Constitution Medal .
Claudia Felser ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was admitted to the Academy of Sciences and Literature ( Mainz / Germany ).
Frank Glorius ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was awarded the 2022 Otto Bayer Award for Chemistry and Biochemistry by the Bayer Foundation ( Leverkusen / Germany ).
Dirk Görlich ML , Member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , was awarded the World Laureates Association Prize ( Hong Kong / China ) in the Life Science or Medicine category .
Christian Haass ML , Member of the Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences Section , was awarded the Hector Science Award by the Hector Foundation II ( Weinheim / Germany ).
Claudia Höbartner ML , Member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , was awarded the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation ( DFG ) ( Bonn / Germany ).
Myles Jackson ML , Member of the History of Science and Medicine Section , was accepted as an Associate Member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering ( Munich / Germany ).
Gero Miesenböck ML , Member of the Neuroscience Section , was awarded the Japan Prize by the Japan Prize Foundation ( Tokyo / Japan ) in the Life Sciences category .
Frank Neese ML , Member of the Chemistry Section , was accepted into the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Stefan M . Pfister ML , Member of the Gynaecology and Paediatrics Section , was awarded the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation ( DFG ) ( Bonn / Germany ).
Walter Rosenthal ML , Member of the Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine Section , was named University Manager of the Year 2022 by the weekly newspaper “ Die Zeit ” ( Hamburg / Germany ) and the CHE Centre for Higher Education ( Gütersloh / Germany ).
Helga Rübsamen-Schaeff ML , Member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , was accepted as an