Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the highest endowed German science prize and enables researchers employed abroad to conduct a long-term, pioneering research project at a university in Germany. The Humboldt Professorships are awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Their purpose is to facilitate long-term, future-oriented research work at German universities and research facilities and thereby strengthen Germany’s competitive edge as a research location internationally. There are three Humboldt Professors currently working at the University of Münster.

The Humboldt Professorship offers me extraordinary freedom to pursue my own academic goals. In Münster it allowed me to assemble a large international group with a broad research spectrum in the theory of relativity, and to bring onboard a large number of visiting researchers for a longer period to Münster. The creates a special dynamic, in which new mathematical ideas can be conceived and put into practice.

Our Humboldt Professors

Year	Recipient	Subject area	Dossier Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2021	Prof. Dr. Gustav Holzegel	mathematics	Dossier Prof Holzegel
2016	Prof. Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel	Jewish studies	Dossier Prof Kogman-Appel
2012	Prof. Dr. Michael Weiss	mathematics	Dossier Prof Weiss