The Leibniz-prices in 2019 will go to four researchers and six scientists from the Humanities and social Sciences, the life Sciences, and the natural and engineering Sciences. This has been announced by the German research Foundation (DFG) on Thursday in Bonn.
The sociologist Andreas Reckwitz learned of the honor, only one and a half hours in front of the Public. “I was flabbergasted and could not believe it at first,” he told the daily mirror. Reckwitz is Professor of Comparative cultural sociology at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). The Leibniz-price of the Jury referred to him as “one of the leading and most original society as a diagnostician of the present”.
In his research he deals with the structural transformation of modern Western societies. In the book “the society of The singularities” he represents the Thesis that in today’s environment to raise his own profile and the special. The price reckwitz sees it as an award for his research of the past 20 years, “but he also encourages me to continue and maybe a new area of research,” about the cultural theory of late-modern societies. At the same time he wanted to try to establish more international contacts.
robot, women’s rights, and membranes
With the establishment of contacts also Sami Haddadin, robotics is concerned-researchers at the TU Munich. He was awarded the Leibniz prize for his research on the interface between man and machine. The constructed Betist robot move human-like and are confident in dealing with people – a prerequisite for them to be accepted in their environment, such as in the care of the elderly. “Robots, technology can solve many of the problems which can make a self-determined life in old age is often difficult,” said Haddadin recently in an interview with the daily mirror. Much of his research in modern industrial robots.
The robotics researcher Sami Haddadin from the technical University of Munich.Photo: Sami Haddadin
Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law and political science, conducts research to multi-cultural societies. The Director of the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) in Göttingen deals with law and Religion, women’s rights and cultural diversity. In her book “Citizenship and Global Inequality” raises the question of how one should with the inequality bypass, which is the result of privileges such as citizenship are awarded randomly. Shachar argues for a better distribution of opportunities, for instance through TRANS-national commitments to poorer States.
to the Right, and a political scientist Ayelet Shachar from the MPI for the study of religious and ethnic diversity in…photo: Frank Vinken
Matthias Wessling receives the prize for his Work in the field of membrane research. Semipermeable, i.e. semi-permeable membranes, in which the Professor of the RWTH Aachen University conducts research, are important components of industrial processes, for example in water desalination, gas treatment, or in high-performance batteries. The technique is also used in medicine, for example in the case of the dialysis. Currently, the procedure works technician mainly because of artificial and biological membranes.
Every price gets a carrier of EUR 2.5 million
The physicist Rupert Huber of the University of Regensburg awarded the Leibniz prize for his Work in the Terahertz and solid-state physics, and immunologist Hans-Reimer Rodewald from the German cancer research center in Heidelberg for his research in the field of hematopoiesis. Other prize-winners Melina Schuh from the MPI for biophysical chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, which researches reproductive biology, and Brenda Schulman from the MPI for biochemistry in Martinsried, will be honored for their research on the molecular mechanisms of the Ubiquitin system in the genome. Michèle Tertilt from the University of Mannheim investigates the influence of gender roles and family structures to economic growth and the physicist Wolfgang Wernsdorfer from the Karlsruhe Institute for technology is working for his Pioneering in nano-magnetism and single-molecule magnets excellent.
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The Leibniz prize is the most important research award in Germany. The winners were selected from 122 proposals and will receive prize money of 2.5 million euros. The money you can use for up to seven years for their research work. The Leibniz prizes will be on the 13. March 2019 awarded in Berlin.
