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Prizes & Awards

TUM scientists in all departments are regularly awarded top prizes for their achievements. Here is an overview.

The Latest Awards

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Professor Gudrun Klinker and Professor Nassir Navab from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology receive the Career Impact Award of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (The MICCAI Society) presents Professor Daniel Rückert with the Enduring Impact Award 2024. He received the award at the MICCAI conference, which took place from October 6 to 10, 2024, in Marrakech, Morocco.

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The European Research Council is funding a project by Alexander Fraser, Professor of Data Analytics & Statistics at TUM Campus Heilbronn, with an ERC Advanced Grant. Fraser and his team want to improve the integration of less common languages into so-called Large Language Models (LLMs).

Humboldt Professorships

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most highly endowed German science award. It is awarded to top researchers who are world leaders in their field and are active abroad. The Humboldt Professorships are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

  • 2022: Stefanie Jegelka
  • 2022: Suvrit Sra
  • 2021: Angela Schoellig
  • 2020: Daniel Rückert
  • 2018: Marco Caccamo
  • 2014: Andreas Schulz
  • 2011: Hans-Arno Jacobsen
  • 2010: Gerhard Kramer
  • 2009: Burkhard Rost

Leibniz Prizes

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important research funding award in Germany. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) uses it to promote the work of outstanding scientists. The prize is endowed with up to 2.5 million euros.

  • 2023: Fabian Theis
  • 2020: Thomas Neumann
  • 2019: Sami Haddadin
  • 2016: Daniel Cremers
  • 2012: Barbara Wohlmuth
  • 2008: Holger Boche
  • 2008: Susanne Albers
  • 1997: Ernst W. Mayr
  • 1995: Gerhard Hirzinger
  • 1994: Manfred Broy
  • 1991: Karl-Heinz Hoffmann

ERC Grants

The European Research Council supports frontier research through individual funding and enjoys an excellent reputation in the research community.

ERC Starting Grants

  • 2024: Berna Özkale Edelmann
  • 2024: Jana Giceva
  • 2023: Kristen Kozielski
  • 2022: Angela Dai
  • 2022: Pramod Bhatotia
  • 2021: Viktor Leis
  • 2018: Antonia Wachter-Zeh
  • 2018: Majid Zamani
  • 2018: Matthias Nießner
  • 2016: Agnieszka Wykowska
  • 2014: Nils Thüerey
  • 2013: Sandra Hirche
  • 2013: Björn Schuller
  • 2012: Massimo Fornasier
  • 2012: Andrey Rybalchenko
  • 2011: Eva Viehmann
  • 2010: Fabian Theis
  • 2010: Noam Berger Steiger
  • 2010: Eckehard Steinbach
  • 2009: Daniel Cremers

ERC Consolidator Grants

  • 2024: Alexander Fraser
  • 2023: Jia Chen
  • 2020: Robert König
  • 2020: Robert Wille
  • 2019: Sandra Hirche
  • 2019: Nils Thürey
  • 2018: Matthias Althoff
  • 2017: Eva Viehmann
  • 2016: Thomas Neumann
  • 2015: Christian Liedtke
  • 2014: Daniel Cremers
  • 2014: Wolfang Kellerer

ERC Advanced Grants

  • 2022: Gordon Cheng
  • 2021: Fabian Theis
  • 2019: Mathias Drton
  • 2019: Daniel Rückert
  • 2019: Daniel Cremers
  • 2018: Alin Albu-Schäffer
  • 2017: Javier Esparza
  • 2015: Susanne Albers
  • 2011: Rüdiger Westermann
  • 2010: Martin Buss

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

  • 2019: Sandra Hirche
  • 2019: Daniel Cremers
  • 2018: Nils Thürey
  • 2016: Rüdiger Westermann
  • 2015: Eckehard Steinbach
  • 2013: Daniel Cremers

ERC Synergy Grants

  • 2023: Julien Gagneur

IEEE Fellows

IEEE Fellows are appointed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to researchers who have made exceptional contributions to their field.

  • 2023: Alois Knoll
  • 2022: Nassir Navab
  • 2021: Wolfgang Utschick
  • 2020: Daniel Rückert
  • 2020: Sandra Hirche
  • 2019: Gerhard Rigoll
  • 2017: Gordon Cheng
  • 2015: Eckhard Steinbach
  • 2014: Martin Buss
  • 2014: Helmut Gräb
  • 2011: Holger Boche
  • 2011: Paolo Lugli
  • 2010: Gerhard Kramer
  • 2007: Markus-Christian Amann
  • 2006: Günther Schmidt
  • 2003: Dierk Schröder
  • 2000: Johann-Friedrich Luy*
  • 1998: Wolfram Boeck
  • 1997: Gerd Hirzinger
  • 1994: Kurt Antreich
  • 1994: Peter Russer
  • 1993: Josef A. Nossek
  • 1992: Joachim Hagenauer
  • 1980: Wolfgang Harth

Legend: * = not at TUM at the time of the award

ACM Fellows

ACM Fellows are appointed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to members who have made outstanding contributions to the field of computer science and information technology.

  • 2022: Peter Boncz
  • 2022: Alfons Kemper
  • 2008: Lawrence C. Paulson

TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professors

Since 2007, the Technical Univerity of Munich awards the honorary title "TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor" to internationally outstanding scientists who have developed a leading research field and who cooperate with their TUM colleagues on a long-term basis. The honorary title is awarded by the President on the basis of a resolution of the Extended Presidential Board and the Senate.

  • Leon O. Chua
  • Patrick Dewilde
  • Eveline Gottzein (1931-2023)
  • Martin Grötschel
  • Oussama Khatib
  • James E. Massey (1934-2013)
  • Yoshikito Nakamura
  • Lawrence C. Paulson
  • Sidney I. Resnick
  • August-Wilhelm Scheer
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