Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany bestows the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award every two years. Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician, who made important contributions to mathematical analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. This prestigious award named in her honor is given to promising young academics to pursue their line of research in the sciences or arts and humanities. The foundation encourages applications from all areas of the academy so long as the investigator received a Ph.D. in the last six years and may be categorized as "top flight" by their publications and experience as commensurate with age.
There have been 59 awards since the inception of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2002. Individual awards may total up to 1.6 million Euro each. Funds are awarded to build and lead a team of researchers for a five-year period within a German host institution. The award is arguably one of the most prestigious and innovative awards in the world and is designed to foster long-term connections between Germany and world class young talent.
Award winners
- Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
- Anne Bouloumié
- Luc Bovens
- Stephane Charlot
- Volker Deckert
- Paolo D'Iorio
- Oliver Eickelberg
- Michael Feiginov
- Michael Gotthardt
- Stefan Hecht
- Daniel Hofstetter
- Judith Klein-Seetharaman
- Manuel Koch
- Yuriy Makhlin
- Matilde Marcolli
- Krzysztof Oplustil
- Kawon Oum
- Jane Elizabeth Parker
- Maxim Polyakov
- Alexander Pukhov
- Tina Romeis
- Luis Santos
- Jochen Schneider
- Joachim Schultze
- Eva Stoger
- Greg J. Stuart
- Gleb Sukhorukov
- Grigori Vajenine
- Zhong Zhang
2004
- Lucas Brunsveld
- Yanbei Chen
- Ferdinando Cicalese
- Michal Czakon
- Mark Depauw
- Brian Hare
- Jian-Wei Pan
- Tricia Striano
- Doris Y. Tsao
- Eckhard von Törne
- Martin Wilmking
2006
- Jens Bredenbeck
- Jure Demsar
- Felix Engel
- Natalia Filatkina
- Olga Holtz
- Reinhard Kienberger
- Marga Cornelia Lensen
- Martin Lövden
- Thomas Misgeld
- Benjamin Schlein
- Taolei Sun
2008
- Cinzia Casiraghi, Italy, Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
- Karl Sebastian Lang, Austria, Medicine Universität Düsseldorf
- Esther Lutgens, The Netherlands, Medicine, RWTH Aachen
- Nathan MacDonald, Great Britain, Biblical Theology, Universität Göttingen
- Daniele Oriti, Italy, Theoretical Physics, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik Golm
- Jan-Erik Siemens, Germany (previously at UC San Francisco), Neurophysiology, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
- Mirka Uhlirova, Czech Republic, Molecular Genetics, Universität zu Köln
- Aleksi Vuorinen, Finland, Theoretical Physics, Universität Bielefeld