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People
Awards and Honors
Asifa Akhtar ML , member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , received the Christa Šerić-Geiger Prize from the Carl-Friedrich Geiger Foundation ( Kehl / Germany ).
Ralf Bartenschlager ML , member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University Medical Centre Mainz .
Andreas J . Bäumler ML , member of the Microbiology and Immunology Section , received the 2021 Robert Koch Award from the Robert Koch Foundation ( Berlin / Germany ).
Carolyn Bertozzi ML , member of the Chemistry Section , was awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry by the Wolf Foundation ( Herzliya / Israel ) and the 2022 Lifetime Mentor Award by the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Alena Buyx ML , member of the Philosophy of Science Section , was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal by the Technical University of Munich and was elected as a member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering ( Munich / Germany ).
Stefanie Dehnen ML , member of the Chemistry Section , received the 2022 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation .
Ivan Đikić ML , member of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Section , was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature ( Mainz / Germany ).
Karl Max Einhäupl ML , Member of the Neurosciences Section , was elected as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Freie Universität Berlin .
Jutta Gärtner ML , member of the Gynaecology and Paediatrics Section , has taken over as Chair of the Leopoldina Human Rights Committee .
Michael Grätzel ML , member of the Chemistry Section , was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Markus Gross ML , member of the Informatics Section , was elected as a member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering ( Munich / Germany ).
Michael Hallek ML , member of the Internal Medicine and Dermatology Section , was appointed to the German Council of Science and Humanities ( Cologne / Germany ).
Stefan Hell ML , member of the Physics Section , was awarded the Werner von Siemens Ring by the foundation of the same name ( Berlin / Germany ).
Ralph Hertwig ML , member of the Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Section , was elected as a member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering ( Munich / Germany ).
Herbert Jäckle ML , member of the Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology Section , was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Michael Kaschke ML , Member of the Engineering Sciences Section , was elected as the President of the Stifterverband ( Donors ’ Association for the Promotion of Humanities and Sciences ) in Germany ( Essen / Germany ).
Ursula Keller ML , member of the Physics Section , was awarded the 2020 Frederic Ives Medal by the Optical Society , previously known as the Optical Society of America ( Washington DC / USA ).
Christine Klein ML , member of the Neurosciences Section , was awarded the Edmond J . Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders by the Michael J . Fox Foundation ( New York / USA ).
Horst Klinkmann ML , member of the Internal Medicine and Dermatology Section , was awarded the Friendship Order ( Huân chuong Huu nghi ) by the government of Vietnam .
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus ML , member of the Chemistry Section , was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Ferenc Krausz ML , member of the Physics Section , was awarded the 2022 Wolf Prize for Physics by the Wolf Foundation ( Herzliya / Israel ).
Kerstin Krieglstein ML , member of the Anatomy and