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

TUM Ambassadors, 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

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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.

Physics, Award | 12.12.2025

Physicist Frank Pollmann receives Leibniz Prize

Most important German research award goes to TUM professor

Research, Bioscience, Chemistry, Award | 11.12.2025

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal for Profs. Jennifer Rupp and Friedrich Simmel

On December 4, 2025, during the Dies Academicus, two TUM School of Natural Sciences professors were awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal.

BioSysteM, Fundamental Science for Health, Fundamental Forces and Cosmic Evolution, Biomolecular Engineering & Design, ERC, ORIGINS, Research, Bioscience, Physics, Award | 10.12.2025

Six ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to TUM researchers

EU funding for projects in biotechnology, medicine, and physics. Karoline Schäffner, Danny Nedialkova, Karen Alim and Roberto Rizzato from NAT are…

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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.