The Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award (also known as Copernicus Award) is a biannual science award conferred by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Foundation for Polish Science "to the individuals most active in Polish-German scientific cooperation who have made exceptional research achievements as a result of that cooperation." The award was established in 2006 and is named after Renaissance astronomer and polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). It carries a cash prize of €200,000 shared equally by two winners, one from Germany and one from Poland. In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must have at least a doctoral degree and work in Polish or German scientific institutions.
Permanent members of the Jury of the Copernicus Award include: Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw) – chair of the Jury; Immo Fritsche (Leipzig University) – deputy chair of the Jury; Bernd Büchner (IFW Dresden); Paweł Idziak (Jagiellonian University); Maria Mittag (University of Jena); Marek Samoć (Wrocław University of Technology).
Copernicus Award winners Year Name Institution Field 2026 Dorothee Haroske University of Jena Mathematical analysis Leszek Skrzypczak Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 2024 Joachim Wambsganss University of HeidelbergExoplanets Andrzej Udalski University of Warsaw 2022 Sascha Feuchert University of GiessenHolocaust studies Krystyna Radziszewska University of Łódź 2020 Stefan Dziembowski University of WarsawTheoretical cryptography and information security Sebastian Faust Technische Universität Darmstadt 2018 Stefan Anker Charité – Universitätsmedizin BerlinPathophysiology of heart failure Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University 2016 Agnieszka Chacińska University of WarsawMolecular cell biology Peter Rehling University of Göttingen 2014 Marek Żukowski University of GdańskQuantum optics Harald Weinfurter TU Wien 2012 Jacek Błażewicz Poznań University of TechnologyBusiness information systems Erwin Pesch University of Siegen 2010 Alfred Forchel University of WürzburgSolid-state physics and the physics of nanostructures Jan Misiewicz Wrocław University of Technology 2008 Andrzej Sobolewski Polish Academy of Sciences Photochemistry and photophysics of biomolecules Wolfgang Domcke Technical University of Munich 2006 Barbara Malinowska University of Warsaw Pharmacology and physiology Eberhard Schlicker University of Bonn
See also
List of general science and technology awards Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science Polish-German relations Brückepreis
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