14 3 / 2021 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWSLETTER
People
Awards and Honours
Claus Bachert ML , member of the Ophthalmology , Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Stomatology Section , was awarded the Hamberger Medal from the Swedish ENT Society .
Katja Becker ML , member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , was elected President of the Global Research Council ( GRC ).
Ralph Bock ML , member of the Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Section , was elected as member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Katrin Böhning-Gaese ML , member of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology section , receives the German Environmental Prize ( Deutscher Umweltpreis ) awarded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation ( DBU ).
Alessandra Buonanno ML , member of the Physics Section , was elected as member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Stefanie Dehnen ML , member of the Chemistry Section , received the Alfred Stock Memorial Prize from the German Chemical Society ( GDCh ).
Christian Drosten ML , member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover ( TiHo ) and the 2020 Berliner Wissenschaftspreis ( Berlin Science Prize ).
Bernhard Eitel ML , member of the Earth Sciences Section , was elected to the Board of Directors of the League of European Research Universities ( LERU ).
Reinhard Genzel ML , member of the Physics Section , was elected Vice Chancellor of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts ( Berlin / Germany ).
Onur Güntürkün ML , member of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Section , was elected as member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Gerald Haug ML , member of the Earth Sciences Section , was elected as member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Jürgen Heinze ML , member of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Section , received the Karl Ritter von Frisch Medal , the science prize awarded by the German Zoological Society ( DZG ).
Monika Henzinger ML , member of the Informatics Section , was presented with the Wittgenstein Award by the Austrian Science Fund FWF ( Vienna / Austria ).
Bernhard Korte ML , member of the Mathematics Section , was awarded the Innovationspreis ( Innovation Prize ) of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the honorary award category .
Heyo K . Kroemer ML , member of the Physiology and Pharmacology / Toxicology Section , was elected as member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BBAW ).
Karl Leo ML , member of the Physics Section , was honoured with the European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office ( Munich / Germany ) and received the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences ( EURASC ).
Maria Leptin ML , member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , will be the next President of the European Research Council ( ERC ).
Thomas Mettenleiter ML , member of the Veterinary Medicine Section , was named as one of two Chairs of the One Health High Level Expert Panel , a new panel established by WHO , the OIE , FAO and UNEP to improve pandemic preparedness .
Hans-Christian Pape ML , member of the Neurosciences Section , was elected Vice President for Medicine at the Universität zu Lübeck .
Hermann Parzinger ML , member of the Cultural Sciences Section , was elected Chancellor of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts ( Berlin / Germany ).
Matin Qaim ML , member of the Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences Section , will be the next President