Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
The Sofia Kovalevskaya Prize of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is named after the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) and is awarded every two years by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2002.
The price is up to 1.65 million euros doped ( up to 2006 1.2 million euro ) and thus by the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the third highest honor awarded in German research prize. The prize money is used to build a research group at a German research institute or university and to use specific projects within six years.
The prize is awarded to scientists from abroad or researching abroad German scientists. About a third of award winners are German, are being brought back with the price to Germany.
Award winners
- 2002: Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Anne Bouloumié, Luc Bovens, Stephane Charlot, Volker Deckert, Paolo D' Iorio, Oliver Eickelberg, Michael Feiginov, Michael Gotthardt, Stefan Hecht, Daniel Hofstetter, Judith Klein - Seetharaman, Manuel Koch, Yuriy Makhlin, Matilde Marcolli, Krzysztof Oplustil, Kawon Oum, Jane Elizabeth Parker, Maxim Polyakov, Alexander Pukhov, Tina Romeis, Luis Santos, Jochen Schneider, Joachim Schultze, Eva Stoger, Greg J. Stuart, Gleb Sukhorukov, Grigori Vajenine, Zhong Zhang
- 2004: Lucas Brunsveld, Yanbei Chen, Ferdinando Cicalese, Michal Czakon, Mark Depauw, Brian Hare, Jian- Wei Pan, Tricia Striano, Doris Y. Tsao, Eckhard von Törne, Martin Wilmking
- 2006: Jens Brede Beck, Jure Demsar, Felix Engel, Natalia Filatkina, Olga Holtz, Kienberger, Marga Cornelia Lensen, Martin Lövden, Thomas Misgeld, Benjamin Schlein, Taolei Sun
- 2008: Cinzia Casiraghi, Karl Sebastian Lang, Esther Lutgens, Nathan MacDonald, Daniele Oriti, Jan- Erik Siemens, Mirka Uhlirova, Aleksi Vuorinen
- 2010: Isabel Bäurle, Lapo Bogani, Camin Dean, Christian Doeller, Brandon Dotson, Gustavo Fernandez Huertas, Joern Fischer, Christiana Fountoulakis Mäsch, Jörg Fröbisch, Joseph Hennawi, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Eike Kiltz, Philipp Alexander Lang, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Andreas Possible Simone Pika, Roberto Rinaldi, Dmitry Volodkin
- 2012: Pavel Buividovich, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Tanja Gaich, Kerstin Kaufmann, Liu Na, Veronika Lukacs - Kornek, Ulf A. Orom, Miriam Ronzoni, Patricia Schady, Richard Stancliffe, Athanasios Typas, Samuel Wagner, Nils B. Weidmann, Yan Yu