The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis) is a recognition from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to academic researchers who developed projects and worked in German institutions.
The award was named after the German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and the Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Annually, the award is given to approximately 20 international researcher who concluded their PhD in less than 18 years ago. The researcher can be from multiple areas, like mathematics, physics, biology and others. The winners also receive 60,000 euros and are invited to conduct a project of their choice at a German institution.
Winners October 2001
Peter J. Hirschfeld Srinivasan Ramakrishnan James Retallack Susanta Mahapatra Sutanu Sarkar Stefan K. Estreicher Ulrike Diebold Eugenii Shustin Martin Dufwenberg Naveen Garg Eduard Boos Ulrich Meierfrankenfeld Giacomo de Angelis Richard A. Dluhy Stephen High Askold Ivantchik
March 2002 Yaroslav Shramko Kalyanmoy Deb Victor Kozlov Andrey Sarantsev Krassimir Danov Eric Suraud Olga V. Boltalina
October 2002 Pietro U. Dini Vadapalli Chandrasekhar Mark A. Adams Craig Darrian Roberts Nir Davidson Wolfram Michael Kürschner Galen V. Bodenhausen Nicholas Pinter Grahame Alexander Blair Vladimir Shabaev
March 2003 Igor L. Fedushkin Branislav Jeremic Hartmut Lücke Pim Martens Christoph U. Keller Andrew James Elliot Hsien-Kuei Hwang Julio Fernando Navarro Sotiris Xantheas Wenjun Zhang Vadim Kamenetsky Igor Ivanovich Potemkin
March 2004 Alexander O. Govorov Sven Beckert Nicola Tirelli Ruiqin Zhang
October 2004 Alvaro Pascual-Leone Luis M. Chiappe Martin Freer Mikhail Ivanov Daniel M. Sigman David S. Citrin Guillermo Bazan João B. Pesquero
March 2005 Yan V. Fyodorov Martin Gruebele Jairton Dupont Steen Hannestad Ilan Marek Andrea Cimatti Roland Bürgmann Peter Ulric Tse Angel Rubio Navin Khaneja Mark E. Tuckerman
October 2005 Steve Wood Charles Spence Christos Mantzoros Craig M. Crews Yanyao Jiang Cary B. Forest
March 2006 Xiaoyang Zhu Lynda Catherine Brinson Sean C. Smith Zhibin Guan Bianca M. Poggianti Juan Pablo Paz Jun Ye Mary Mullins Benjamin D. Wandelt Ashutosh Sharma Ran Nathan Changchang Xi
September 2006 Lane A. Hemaspaandra Dmitriy A. Funk Michael Granato Grigory Mikhalkin Lydéric Bocquet Raymond Wai Ho Yeung
March 2007 Wenjian Liu Lorenzo Perilli Abdulmotaleb El Saddik Nektarios Tavernarakis Polly Arnold Shude Mao Srikanth Iyengar Werner Vogelsang
October 2007 Ralf Rapp Ruben Minasian Ulrike Luise Tillmann Frantisek Stepanek Mathew D. Penrose Edith Hemaspaandra Adrian Constantin Guy D. Moore
April 2008 Sandeep Kumar Shukla Paul Chirik
October 2008 Valery Kiryukhin Stephan Roche Iain Stewart Daniel Mindiola Hans Ringström
March 2009 Frieder Jäkle A. A. Mamun Joris Koene Zuzanna Siwy Wilhelm T.S. Huck Guoxiang Peng Lutz Lampe Sergey Saveliev Victor Gurarie
October 2009 Troy W. Margrie Markus Aspelmeyer Demian M. Saffer Alison L. Bartosik Ulisse Stefanell Carsten Wiuf
March 2010 Alberto Mario Damiani Andrew Gurtovenko Paul Braun Bing Bing Jia José del Valle
October 2010 Alejandro G. Vigo Federico Rosei Ajayan Vinu Dirk Schulze-Makuch Adrian Langer Musa Wenkosi Dube
March 2011 Sandra Lorena Lopez Varela Eli Barkai Brian C. Freeman Wolfgang Steffen Ingo Schlupp Eleanor Robson Laurent Loinard Kathy Lu
October 2011 Jin Zhao Anna I. Krylov Yiguang Ju Georg Jander Carlos Eduardo Pereira (engineer) Jamie J. Kruzic Christian W. Bauer Kaustav Banerjee Penelope Evelyn Haxell
March 2012 Richard Kent Wolf Jonathan D. Bobaljik Jonas Tallberg Herman Steven Overkleeft Oliver Steinbock Gil Refael Boris Murmann Thomas W. Baumgarte Andrea Damascelli Steven Vanderputten Clifford Ando
October 2012 Olivier Remaud Ganpati Ramanath Hoang Nguyen The Michael H. Glickman Svetlana Krupko Martha W. Alibali Diego F. Torres Thomas Loerting Marc Legros Thomas Baumgartner
March 2013 Joseph A. Turner Hendrik Bluhm Dieter Fox Hans Förster Alejandro Fabian Schinder Emily Alexandra Holmes Zhiyuan Zhong Carol H. Shiue
October 2013 David Peter Dobson David Petrosyan Roman Vershynin Reem Sari Filip Lievens Stephan W. Haas Neil Brett Boister Eleni Anagnostopoulou Senjo Shimizu Thorsten W. Becker Martin Albrecht
March 2014 Steven D. Jacobsen Matthew Wing Marcus Weck Jakub Kloc-Konkolowicz Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar Christiane Wobus Jonathan Kimmelman Daniel A. McFarland Takahiro Sasamori
October 2014 Arturo Hernandez Emily S. Bernhardt Gianfranco Brunetti Ivan Smalyukh Tatyana Ivanovna Baturina Martin Reisslein Paula Diaconescu Jens Oliver Zinn Bertrand Rémy Ashraf Brik Juan Alvaro Echeverri Tehshik Peter Yoon Kerwyn Casey Huang
March 2015 Song-I Han Tuck-Po Lye Frank Griffel Beatrix Beisner Eugene R. Zubarev Shih-Yuan Liu Stefano Fabris Cas Mudde Vincenzo Grillo Samuel Grushevsky Pance Naumov
October 2015 Oleg Victor Prezhdo Paul J. Low Susanna Schellenberg Harald P. Pfeiffer Mikhail Belkin Mona Jarrahi Panayotis Kevrekidis Patrick L. Holland Ludovic van Waerbeke Ulrike M. Malmendier
March 2016 Gabriele Travaglini Bernd Stelzer Markus Kraft Joerg Widmer Roman Frigg Diego P. Vazquez Stefano Curtarolo João Marcos de Almeida
October 2016 Antonin Kucera Markus B. Raschke Fábio Armando Tal Tim M. P. Tait Jenny Reardon Annette Mairi Nelson Ferguson Javier Ballesteros Paredes Celine Peroux Wonpil Im Vlada Limic Emmanuel Lacote
March 2017 Paul Arne Ostvaer Omar Adel Saleh Vanesa Gottifredi Magali Isabelle Billen Franz M. Geiger Deji Akinwande Sebastian Kadener Satyam Suwas Dusan Stipanovic Yuri Y. Kovalev Martin Maier
October 2017 Paola Arlotta Oren Schuldiner Dimas G. de Oteyza Manuel Bibes Benjamin Isaac Rotenberg Uriah Kriegel Chris Lang Hui Deng Victor Chernozhukov Yannick Jerome Gwenael Dumeige Pedro Antonio Santoro Salomão Gabriella De Lucia Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Rodrigo Goncalves Pereira John Theodore Zilcosky Przemyslaw Marciniak David H. Gracias
March 2018 Saurabh Bagchi Mu-Hyun Baik Michael Spannowsky Piotr Faliszewski Laura Maria Herz Kazunori Sugiyasu Philip Stier Angelos Michaelides Dragos Gheorghe Calma
October 2018 Panayiota Poirazi Gurvan Michel Jens Biegert Dragan Huterer Jörg Rottler Trevor W. Hayton Derek A. Pratt Michael Benjamin Johnston Rodrigo Antonio Gutierrez Max Paul Friedman Catherine Lu
March 2019 Gianluca Panati Raymond A. Mar Maxim Berezovski Guosheng Liu Mihyun Kang Geza Toth Jure Zupan Patricia Jean Wittkopp Lan Yang Xiaodong Chen Alexandru Babes
October 2019 Katja Loos Matevz Dular Denis Grebenkov Christopher Patrick Royall George Garinis Costica Bradatan Liv Hornekaer Su Lui Ronit Satchi-Fainaro Wei Biao Wu Stephen Liddle Jayant Sirohi
April 2020 Tobias Rees Carlos David Londoño Sulkin Filippo Fraternali Martin Sylvain Peter Lenz Kirill Dmitriev Gilad Perez Joshua Ruderman Gabor Hofer-Szabo Rainer M. Volkamer Bettina Bildhauer
October 2020 Yong Zhu Elin McCready Zachariah Weber Caroline Petit Diego Pol Julie Casteigt Verena Häussermann Swadhin Kumar Mandal Connie C. Lu Sonia Kefi Jose M. Goicoechea Salil Kanhere
March 2021 Hyo-In Koh Prineha Narang Nicola Lacetera Edwin P. Gerber William Chueh Christopher J. Hopwood Ludmilla Aristilde Amy Marshall-Colon Eileen Lueders Silvia De Rubeis Peter V. Dietsch Philip Walther
October 2021 Rob Ameloot Lynda C. Olman Marcus Matthias Opp Jennifer M. Schomaker Karabi Biswas Daniel Kuhn Kin Fai Mak Mahesh Kumar Brian F. Pfleger F. Sebastian Bergeret Raul Angulo Matthias Ihme Stephan Tillmann Gregory A. Fiete Richard Layfield Sergey Tikhonov
March 2022 Xu Deng Dominik Schleicher Abigail G. Doyle Tiago Pereira da Silva Joshua Goldberger Eva Miranda Darko Zibar Yam Siwakoti Theodor Agapie Tobias Grossmann Xiaoming Chen
October 2022 Jong Hyun Choi Lingling Huang Adam Jatowt Thomas Theis Jianping Fu Michail Stamatakis Sudha Arunachalam Domenico Agostini Hernan G. Garcia Nikita Basov Stephane Blondin Apala Majumdar Rubina Raja Harshan Kumarasingham C. Franklin Goldsmith Christian Vassallo
March 2023 Stefano Palminteri Vincent Pouliot Tiffany A. Shaw Lucian N. Leustean Colin Reid Xiao-Ming Liu Rachel Ward Abhay Sagade Marianne Lemoine-Goumard
October 2023 Chris Brown (educator) Konrad Menzel Adam Millard-Ball Alyssa Ney Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl Sergey Tsygankov Eva Hevia Natalia B. Shustova Michael Moehler Claire Spottiswoode Haibo Ma Haimanti Biswas
March 2024 Ofer Firstenberg Randy Stockbridge Romain Jolivet Adam M. Kaufman Wei Hu Mohamed Ali Belabbas Chong Han Daniel Siemens Charles W. Machan Roel P. A. Dullens Jeroen Schillewaert Bin Wang
October 2024 Selvan Demir David Shih Francesco Tornabene Bilal Orfali Tanja Cuk Guangbin Dong Todd K. Hyster Benjamin Schoefer Rajesh Kumar Szabolcs Csonka
March 2025 Michael Werner Zürch Mohammad Javed Ali Sujit Kumar Ghosh Torsten Bringmann Roni Katzir Hadas Okon-Singer Giorgio Di Gessa Alexis Rouillard Riccardo Comin Marina Franco Sedat Gümüs Shaibal Mukherjee Liangzhi Kou Christopher Metcalf
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