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Awards & Honors

The TUM School of Natural Sciences has an impressive track record in major scientific awards. Members of NAT are regularly successful and our School bestows several prestigious awards and honors itself.

Prof. Frank Pollmann receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2026.

Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professorships Awards 2025

Photo: Dr. Annemieke IJpenberg / TUM

Andreas Bausch is the new Nixdorf Professor

Bild: Stefan Woidig / TUM

Paul Martini Prize for Prof. Marcus Conrad

Photo: Paul-Martini-Stiftung

Manchot Research Professorship 2023 awarded to Prof. Carolyn J. Anderson

Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM

MPIC Student Council present Golden Chalk 2024

Photo: Martin Schellerer / TUM

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Public Outreach, Bioscience, Chemistry, Physics, Award | 11.02.2026

Study Night and Golden Chalk Award to Dr. Christian Gemel

Student council MPIC hosted a special exam preparation during the 2nd Study Night and awarded the “Best Practical Course” [read more]

MIBE, Physics, Award | 09.02.2026

Prof. Franz Pfeiffer receives honorary professorship at Tsinghua University

Franz Pfeiffer, Professor of Biomedical Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of the Munich Institute of Biomedical… [read more]

Public Outreach, Diversity, Chemistry, Physics, Award | 05.02.2026

NAT School celebrates two new TUM Ambassadors

Prof. Shobhana Narasimhan and Prof. Vivek Vitthal Buwa recognized for their contributions and collaborations at TUM [read more]

FRM II, Research, Physics, Award | 04.02.2026

“Research with neutrons is great fun”: MLZ Prize for Stephan Paul

From day one, Prof. Dr. Stephan Paul, as he says, “took the research reactor to his heart,” sat on the MLZ supervisory board, and helped develop the… [read more]

FRM II, Physics, Award | 14.01.2026

Winfried Petry appointed spokesperson for TUM Senior Excellence Faculty

Prof. Dr. Winfried Petry, long-standing Scientific Director of the FRM II and at the MLZ, has been the new spokesperson for the Senior Excellence… [read more]

Clean Technology Solutions, Chemistry, Award | 07.01.2026

Prof. Emeritus Johann Plank receives Honorary Professorship at Wuhan

Renowned for his research expertise in chemical admixtures for concrete and mortar, the honoree is proactively engaged in research for sustainable… [read more]

Physics, Award | 23.12.2025

TUM Fellow Dr. Florian Dirnberger Honored with the Röntgen Prize at JLU Giessen

For groundbreaking research on magnetic two-dimensional materials and photonics [read more]

Clean Technology Solutions, e-conversion, Chemistry, Award | 18.12.2025

Jennifer L.M. Rupp elected to the board of the Materials Research Society

Starting 1 January 2026, the e-conversion expert has a vote in the MRS’s most important decision-making body for a period of three years. [read more]

Research, Chemistry, Award | 16.12.2025

Wilhelm Manchot Research Professorship 2024 Awarded to Prof. Rong Xu

Recognition for groundbreaking research in photocatalysis, hydrogen technologies, and sustainable chemistry. [read more]

Physics, Award | 12.12.2025

Physicist Frank Pollmann receives Leibniz Prize

Most important German research award goes to TUM professor [read more]

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Academic Awards and Honors (TUM)

Numerous Nobel Prizes, Leibniz Prizes and Humboldt Professorships: Academics of the TUM are regularly honored with major science awards. The university also confers some prestigious awards and honors of its own.

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