Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Prof.in Eva Viehmann (mathematics) — Eva Viehmann, professor of theoretical mathematics, won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2024.
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The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most prestigious research funding award in Germany. The recipients receive prize money totalling 2.5 million euros which can be freely used at their discretion to finance their research projects. There are currently ten Leibniz prizewinners employed at the University of Münster.

Receiving the Leibniz Prize was a great honour and recognition of my previous work. The prize money will offer me complete freedom to conduct research as I wish in the coming years and expand my research team.
Prof Eva Viehmann, mathematics

2024 | Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann (mathematics)
Prof Dr Eva Viehmann received the Leibniz Prize in 2024 in recognition of her influential work in the area of arithmetic algebraic geometry as part of the Langlands programme. She is a contributing researcher in the Cluster of Excellence “Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure”.

Prof Dr Eva Viehmann at the University of Münster

Profile by DFG on prizewinner Prof Dr Eva Viehmann
2013 | Prof Dr Frank Glorius (chemistry)
Prof Dr Frank Glorius received the Leibniz Prize in 2013 as one of the world’s leading experts in the highly contested field of organic catalysis, and in particular, in the area of C-H bond activation. He was distinguished for his pioneering work in the application of C-H activation for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, as well as for his significant contribution to developing the field of oxidative cross couplings catalysed with bivalent rhodium.

Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius at the University of Münster

Profile by the DFG on prizewinner Prof Dr Frank Glorius
2013 | Prof Dr Thomas Bauer (Islamic studies)
Prof Dr Thomas Bauer was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2013 for drawing a globally unique connection between philological interpretation and text editing using a broad, innovative approach that takes cultural- and mentality-historical considerations into account. His studies on literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods are considered groundbreaking as is his (re-)discovery of Islam as a “culture of ambiguity”.

Prof Dr Thomas Bauer at the University of Münster

Profile by the DFG on prizewinner Prof Dr Thomas Bauer
2009 | Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking (mathematics)
The Leibniz Prize was awarded to Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking, a leading international differential geometer, in 2009 for his breakthroughs in classifying Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature, as well as in the area of convergence of the Ricci flow.

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Wilkinga t the University of Münster

Profile by the DFG on prizewinner Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking
2003 | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf (Catholic theology)
As a leading Catholic church historian, Prof Dr Hubert Wolf received the Leibniz Prize in 2003 for tying the subject of church history to the larger, interdisciplinary contexts of political and scientific history and for effectively evaluating massive amounts of source material.

Prof Dr Hubert Wolf at the University of Münster

Profile by the DFG on prizewinner Prof Dr Hubert Wolf

Other prizewinners

Year	Recipient	Subject area
1999	Prof Dr Joachim Cuntz	mathematics
1999	Prof Dr Hans-Christian Pape	medicine
1998	Prof Dr Dietmar Vestweber	cellular biology
1992	Prof Dr Christopher Deninger	mathematics
1992	Prof Dr Peter Schneider	mathematics

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

2024 | Prof. Dr. Eva Viehmann (mathematics)

2013 | Prof Dr Frank Glorius (chemistry)

2013 | Prof Dr Thomas Bauer (Islamic studies)

2009 | Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking (mathematics)

2003 | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf (Catholic theology)

Other prizewinners