Honors & Awards

Solvation Science alive Honors & Awards

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result" - Oscar Wilde

Recent Honours & Awards

Carl Duisberg Memorial Award

Kai Exner is awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize by GDCh

ERC Consolidator Grant

Rasmus Linser wins ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner wins ERC Consolidator Grant

Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner is awarded the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

ERC Advanced Grant

Benjamin List is awarded ECR Advanced Grant for “Early Stage Organocatalysis”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Benjamin List wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

All Honors & Awards

2023

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Kai Exner is awarded the Carl Duisberg Memorial Prize by GDCh

Carl Duisberg Memorial Award

Martin Muhler receives the Alwin Mittasch Preis

Alwin Mittasch Preis

Rasmus Linser wins ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner wins ERC Consolidator Grant

ERC Consolidator Grant

2022

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Benjamin List is awarded ECR Advanced Grant for “Early Stage Organocatalysis”

ERC Advanced Grant

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner is awarded the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

Kai S. Exner awarded by ADUC

ADUC Prize

Kai Exner receives the Jochen Block Prize

Jochen Block Prize

Frank Neese receives the Schrödinger medal of the WATOC

Schrödinger medal of the WATOC

2021

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Martina Havenith appointed by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Henriette Herz-Scouting-Program

Clara Saraceno honored for seminal contributions to ultrafast science and technology

Optica Fellowship

Mario Wiesenfeldt recieves Liebig Fellowship from the FCI

Liebig Fellowship

Benjamin List wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Frank Neese awarded for achievements in molecular theory and spectroscopy

Luigi Sacconi Medal

Christopher Stein receives funding by NRW Ministry of Culture and Science

NRW Rückkehrerprogramm

Kai S. Exner receives state funding for new research group

NRW Rückkehrerprogramm

Kai S. Exner honoured for pioneering research on processes in batteries and electrolyzers

Ewald-Wicke-Preis

Frank Neese honoured with membership

NRW Academy of Sciences and Arts

2020

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High-Performance Computing Center awards Lars Schäfer

Golden Spike Award

Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner reiceves award for exceptional articles

Organometallics' Distinguished Author Award

Martina Havenith elected Fellow of the Optical Society

Optical Society Fellowship

Harun Tüysüz wins prize for german-french research cooperation

Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn Prize

Kristina Tschulik secures EU funding for research on nanoparticles

ERC Starting Grant

Proof of Concept Grant for Nicolas Plumeré and Tobias Vöpel

ERC Grant

Continued funding for Uwe Bovensiepen for research on condensed matter

DFG Grant

Gabriele Sadowski highly honoured for research on material properties

Distinguished Lecture Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties, EFCE

Christian Merten awarded fellowship for physical organic chemistry

Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Harun Tüysüz gets prize for research on catalysts

DECHEMA-Preis 2019

Kristina Tschulik honoured with membership

NRW Academy of Sciences

2019

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Frank Neese one of the most cited researchers in 2019

Highly Cited Researchers powered by Web of Science

Initiation ceremony for Frank Neese

Academia Europaea

Ulf-Peter Apfel receives award for outstanding young scientists

Dozentenpreis des Fonds der Chemischen Industrie

Harun Tüyüz receives funding for new research initative

Volkswagen Foundation Award

Award for Nicolas Plumeré

Luigi Galvani Prize

Benjamin List gives lecture at Purdue University

Herbert C. Brown Lecturer

Wolfgang Schuhmann honoured in Ireland

Giulio-Milazzo Prize

Wolfgang Schuhmann wins EU funding for innovative catalytic cascade reactions

ERC Advanced Grant

Songi Han honored at The Biophysical Society’s 63rd Annual Meeting

2019 BPS Innovation Award

Martin Rabe wins best poster award

Best poster award at ICOMF17

2018

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Clara Saraceno elected as new ambassador

Academia Europaea

Christian Merten funded in "Plus 3" programme

Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation

Electrochemical Society honours Wolfgang Schuhmann

Alessandro Volta Medal, Electrochemical Society

Frank Neese accepted as new member

Academia Europaea

Clara Saraceno wins EU funding for laser research

ERC Starting Grant

Benjamin List new member of the Leopoldina

German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Kristina Tschulik awarded for outstanding contributions in electrochemistry

Hellmuth Fischer Medal

Wolfgang Lubitz invited to Università di Firenze

Luigi Sacconi Memorial Lecture in Chemistry

Michael Römelt secures Junior Group funding

Emmy-Noether-programme

Nicolas Plumeré secures EU funding for transfer project

ERC Proof of Concept Grant

Ulf-Peter Apfel receives award

ADUC Prize

Markus Richter honoured with membership

Junges Kolleg, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste

Frank Neese invited to Canadian University of Alberta

Harry Emmett Gunning Lecture

2017

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Wolfram Sander honoured at University of California

Orville L. Chapman Lectureship Prize

Michael Senske wins prize for best thesis presentation

GDCh Award

Martina Havenith invited member of the Academy of Europe

Academia Europeae Membership

Kristina Tschulik awarded by International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)

2017 Early Career Analytical Electrochemistry Prize

Kolos Medal for Walter Thiel

Kolos Medal

International EPR Society awards Wolfgang Lubitz

IES fellowship

Gabriele Sadowski gives a lecture on key properties of pharmaceutical substances

Leibniz Lecture, German House in New York

Yuan-Pern Lee brings expertise in pioneer spectroscopy to RUB

Humboldt Research Award

Simon Ebbinghaus receives prize from Biophysical Society, New Orleans

Junior Faculty Award

Metin Tolan wins prize in science communication

Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Preis of the German Physical Society

2016

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Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner wins EU funding for research on unique ligand systems

ERC Starting Grant

Nicolas Plumeré wins EU funding for research on renewable energy sources

ERC Starting Grant

Benjamin List wins EU funding for research on a new class of catalysts

ERC Advanced Grant

Martina Havenith wins EU funding for research on Time-Resolved THz-Calorimetry

ERC Advanced Grant

Guido Clever wins EU funding for research on nanometer size-cages

ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANT

Beatriz Roldan wins EU funding for catalyst research

ERC Consolidator Grant

Kristina Tschulik awarded for research on single nanoparticles

Joachim Walther Schultze-Prize

RESOLV scientists attend renowed Solvay Conference

2016 Solvay Conference in Chemistry

Martina Havenith wins prize for supporting women in science

Sophie La Roche prize

Beatriz Roldan receives funding to collaborate with MPI CEC

Max Planck Fellowship

Jörg Neugebauer receives highest honour in physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Ernst Mach Medal

Enrica Bordignon wins award for research on magnetic spin resonance

Ampere Prize

Harun Tüysüz awarded for research on nanostructured multifunctional materials

Jochen-Block-Prize of the German Catalysis Society

Katrin Sommer receives funding for chemistry education

Preis der Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft

Jelena Stojadinovic presents hydrogen production project at NRW initiative for climate

Selection for KlimaExpo.NRW

2015

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Andreas Erbe receives best paper award

EOS Prize of the European Optical Society 2016

Ferdi Schüth wins prize for research on energy storage technologies

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Preis

Benjamin List awarded for opening a new field in catalysis

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Metin Tolan awarded for the "Physics of Star Trek"

Science Communication-Medaille

Markus Valtiner wins EU funding for research on solid/liquid interfaces

ERC Starting Grant

Martin Muhler receives funding to collaborate with MPI CEC

Max Planck Fellowship

Elsa Sanchez-Garcia receives support for molecular understanding of enzymatic activity

PLUS 3 grant of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation

Kristina Tschulik receives state funding for new research group

NRW Rückkehrerprogramm

Clara Saraceno wins funding for new research group at RUB

Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Muhler, Schuhmann win 2 out of 3 invention prizes

RUB invention award

Song-I Han wins prize for research on water dynamics at the subcellular level

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Humboldt Foundation

Markus Richter wins DFG funding for research on phase behavior of fluid compounds

Emmy Noether Junior Group

Jelena Stojadinovic rewarded for research on materials for hydrogen production

Engineer Powerwoman Hannover Messe 2015

La Mantia & Stojadinovic's membrane for hydrogen production wins prize

KUER Start-Up Competition

Michael Römelt receives support for new Junior Group in theoretical chemistry

Otto Hahn Award

Stefan Huber wins EU funding for research on halogen bonds

ERC Starting Grant

2014

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Wolfgang Lubitz gets historic honor

Vice-President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Heather Allen gets award to pursue research on water structure at RUB

Humbold Research Award

Wolfgang Schuhmann awarded research visit in Sydney

Howard Fellowship of New South Wales University

Wolfgang Schuhmann to held a lecture on the design of electrified interfaces

Heyrovský-Ilkovic-Nernst lecture at the Central European Institute of Technologie in Czech Republic

Fabio La Mantia wins prize for research on Li-ion batteries

Hans-Jürgen Engell Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry

Wolfgang Lubitz receives university award

Docteur Honoris Causa of Aix-Marseille University

Ferdi Schüth awarded prize for research on renewable energies

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Preis

Moran Grossmann to pursue research on proteins solvation shell at RUB

Humboldt Research Prize

Jörg Behler receives funding for research on neuronal networks

Heisenberg Fellowship

Benjamin List awarded research grant for pioneering research in catalysis

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society

Walter Thiel to held a lecture on "Chemistry and Spectroscopy with the Computer"

Robert Bunsen Lecture 2014

Jennifer Strunk awarded for research on photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

Jochen-Block-Prize of the German Catalysis Society

2013

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Nicolas Cox awarded prize for research on Photosynthesis

Young Investigator Award (John Weil)' of the International EPR/ESR Society

Łukasz Walewski wins prize for best paper in Molecular Physics

Longuet-Higgins Early Career Researcher Prize 2013

Benjamin List wins city prize for revolutionary research in organic chemistry

Ruhrprize of the city of Mülheim

Martina Havenith awarded fellowship to collaborate with University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Miller Professorship of UC Berkeley

Jörg Behler develops new computer simulations of chemical processes

Hans G. A. Hellman Prize for theoretical chemistry

Christian Merten receives funding for junior group in organic chemistry

Liebig stipend from the "Fond der Chemischen Industrie"

Walter Thiel wins EU funding for theoretical chemistry research

ERC Advanced Grant

Moran Grossmann receives fellowship to pursue research at RUB

National postdoctoral award program for advancing women in science

2012

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Metin Tolan awarded for original communication of physics

Communicator-Preis – Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbandes 2013

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