18 4 / 2022 // LEOPOLDINA / NEWS
ences Section , received an Honorary Doctorate from Tbilisi State Conservatory ( Georgia ).
Bettina Schöne-Seifert ML , Member of the Philosophy of Science Section , was appointed member of the Future Council of the German Government and the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO .
Markus Schwaiger ML , Member of the Radiology Section was elected the new President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( BAdW ) ( Munich / Germany ).
Jan Peter Toennies ML , Member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Società Italiana di Fisica ( Bologna / Italy ).
Peter Wiedemann ML , Member of the Global Health Section , was awarded honorary membership of the German Ophthalmology Society ( Munich / Germany ).
Anton Zeilinger ML , member of the Physics Section , received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( Stockholm / Sweden ).
Deceased Members
Sir Arnold Burgen ML | 20 March 1922 to 26 May 2022 | Cambridge / UK | Physiology and Pharmacology / Toxicology Section
Paul Kleihues ML | 21 May 1936 to 17 March 2022 | Zürich / Switzerland | Pathology and Forensic Medicine Section
Theodor Heinrich Schiebler ML | 03 February 1923 to 27 August 2022 | Würzburg / Germany | Anatomy and Anthropology Section
Dagmar Schipanski ML | 03 September 1943 to 07 September 2022 | Ilmenau / Germany | Technical Sciences Section
Maarten Schmidt ML | 28 December 1929 to 17 September 2022 | Fresno / USA | Physics Section
Michael Sela ML | 02 March 1924 to 27 May 2022 | Rehovot / Israel | Microbiology and Immunology Section
Vince Varró ML | 13 October 1921 to 19 December 2021 | Szeged / Hungary | Internal Medicine and Dermatology Section
Josef Zemann ML | 25 May 1923 to 16 October 2022 | Vienna / Austria | Earth Sciences Section
Leopoldina Fellowship Programme New fellows
Dr . Dorothee Bornhorst-Ohmstede from the Hanover Medical School ( MHH ), Hanover / Germany has been conducting research with Dr . Leonard Zon in the Stem Cell Program at Boston Children ’ s Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston / USA since March 2021 on a 24 month programme .
Dr . Patrick Burauel from the Max Planck Institute ( MPI ) for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen / Germany began a 24 month project in September 2022 at Caltech in Pasadena / USA in the working group of Prof . Dr . Frederick Eberhardt .
Dr . Johannes Dietschreit from the Theoretical Chemistry Department at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich / Germany started working on a 24 month project at the Department of Materials and Engineering Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), in Boston / USA with Prof . Dr . Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli in July 2021 .
Dr . Sofya Dolotovskaya from the German Primate Center , Göttingen / Germany started a 24 month project with Prof . Dr . Anthony Di Fiore from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin / USA in May 2022 .
Dr . Andreas Elben from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information ( IQOQI ) at the University of Innsbruck / Austria has worked since April 2021 on a 24 month project at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter ( IQIM ) of the California Institute for Technology ( Caltech ) in Pasadena / USA with Prof . Dr . John Preskill .
Dr . Serap Erdogmus from the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich / Germany began her 24 month project in the Department of Pathology of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York / USA with Prof . Dr . Stefan Feske in August 2021 .
Dr . Eric Görlitzer , more recently the Chair of Solid