News from the Academy

Photos of the three state research award winners: On the left (Largus Angenen) is an older man with glasses and short hair, in the middle is a woman with chin-length dark hair (Irena Kogan), and on the right is a younger man with short brown hair (Robert Zeiser).

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State research awards 2026 go to Tübingen, Mannheim, and Freiburg

This year, Prize research Prize —the most lucrative of its kind, with a total prize fund of 200,000 euros—honors outstanding scientific achievements in microbiotechnology, migration studies, and immunology.

Portrait photo of Klaus Blaum. Front view of a man smiling at the viewer. He is not wearing glasses and has short brown hair.

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Klaus Blaum to Receive Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2026

Physicist Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum is receiving the Prize for his work on physical constants and symmetries in nature, which is based on precision measurements using ions in electromagnetic traps.

Chest portrait of Stefan Maul. He wears round glasses, has short gray hair, and smiles at the viewer. He wears a shirt, tie, and suit jacket.

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Stefan M. Maul is "University Teacher of the Year"

Assyriologist Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefan Maul has been awarded the Prize German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV). Since 2019, he has been directing the excavation of ancient Nineveh, the former capital of the Assyrian Empire (now Iraq).

Four portrait-format sheets show characters from different languages. Arrows point downwards from the sheets to a horizontal field containing zeros and ones. This field has "Global Basic Lexicon" written on the right-hand side.

Research Projects

Digital collection of basic vocabulary for around 1,500 languages of the world

New project included in the Academies Program funding.

The bronze medal depicts the head of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. The inscription "Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and Humanities " runs along the edge of the medal.

Calls for tenders

Academic semester 2026/27

Call for applications for funding for a sabbatical semester in the Academies Program. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2026.

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Academy Day 2025

Video report from the Academy Day, which took place on September 27, 2025, in Heidelberg.