Awards & Distinctions
CMFI researchers have been recognized and honored for their scientific achievements. On this page we provide an overview.
Awards & Distinctions
| Evi Stegmann & Wolfgang Wohlleben | 2023 | Winner Science2Start Competition |
| Khaled Selim | 2023 | FEMS Outstanding Early Career Microbiologist Award |
| Paolo Stincone | 2023 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| Hans-Georg Rammensee | 2023 | CIMT Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Lars Angenent | 2022 | Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft |
| Harald Groß | 2022 | PHOENIX Pharmazie Wissenschaftspreis, category Pharmaceutical Biology |
| Khaled Selim | 2022 | Nikon PostDoc Award |
| Andreas Peschel | 2022 | Emil von Behring Prize Philipps-University Marburg |
| Detlef Weigel | 2021 | Stephen Hales Prize of the American Society of Plant Biologists |
| Simon Heilbronner | 2021 | Förderpreis of the DGHM (German Society for Hygiene and Mikrobiology) |
| Karl Forchhammer | 2020 | BioRegio Innovationspreis |
| Detlef Weigel | 2020 | Novozymes Prize of the Novo Nordisk Foundation |
| Hans-Georg Rammensee | 2020 | Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg |
| Ruth Ley | 2020 | Otto-Bayer Award |
| Detlef Weigel | 2019 | Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies |
| Monika Schütz | 2019 | DGHM-Förderpreis |
| Lisa Maier | 2018 | Robert Koch Postdoctoral Award for Microbiology |
| Andreas Kappler | 2019 | Terry Beveridge Award (Geobiology Society) |
| Klaus Brilisauer | 2019 | 1. Preis, Science2Start Ideenwettbewerb (BioRegio STERN) |
ERC Grants
| Lukas Mager | 2023 | ERC Starting Grant for project "Systematic Triangulation of Pathobiont-Host-Interactions" |
| Lisa Maier | 2022 | ERC Starting Grant for project "gutMAP" |
| Detlef Weigel | 2021 | ERC Synergy Grant for project "PATOCOM: Understanding and Predicting PATHOgens COMunities" |
| Christoph Ratzke | 2020 | ERC Starting Grant for project "BugDrug – Bugs as Drugs: Understanding Microbial Interaction Networks to Prevent and Treat Infections" |
Memberships
| Detlef Weigel | 2023 | Honorary doctorate, University of Helsinki |
| Andreas Kappler | 2023 | Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry |
| Lars Angenent | 2022 | ISMET Fellow |
| Hans-Georg Rammensee | 2022 | Member of German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina |
| Andreas Peschel | 2022 | Member of German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina |
| Urban Wiesing | 2022 | Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study |
| Andreas Kappler | 2022 | Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen |
| Andreas Kappler | 2022 | Fellow of the American Society of Microbiology |
| Friedrich Götz | 2020 | Advisory Board Member: The Physics of Anti-Microbial Resistance, UK – EPSRC |
| Andreas Peschel | 2020 | Member of the executive board, German Centre for Infection Research |
| Ruth Ley | 2020 | Member of the Scientific Council of the Pasteur Institute |
| Ruth Ley | 2020 | Member of German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina |
| Detlef Weigel | 2019 | Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Early Career Awards
| Simone Edenhart | 2022 | Dissertationspreis, Südwestmetall-Förderpreis |
| Moritz Koch | 2021 | 1. Prize Matariki Thesis Contest |
| Moritz Koch | 2021 | 2. Prize, German Thesis Award 2020/21, Körber-Foundation |
| Moritz Koch | 2021 | VAAM PhD-Award |
| Davina Höll | 2021 | 1. Prize German Thesis Award 2020/21, Körber Foundation |
| Davina Höll | 2021 | Dissertationspreis of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |