News from the Academy

Portrait photo of Christiane Wiesenfeldt. She looks directly at the viewer and smiles slightly. She has shoulder-length blonde hair worn loose.

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Christiane Wiesenfeldt is a new member of the Academy

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences has elected musicologist Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt as a full member.

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, the state's most prestigious research prize, worth a total of €200,000, recognizes outstanding scientific achievements in microbiotechnology, migration research, 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 receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2026

Physicist Klaus Blaum receives the award from the DFG 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 Stefan Maul receives the award from the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV). Since 2019, he has been leading 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.

academy program

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 science. The inscription "Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1909" (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences 1909) runs around 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.