2021 Monika Henzinger

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Monika Henzinger

Austria’s most highly endowed research award

With nominees named by the scientific community, winners selected by an international jury of experts, and a €1.5 million endowment that exceeds all other individual funding awards in Austria, the FWF Wittgenstein Award is unique in every respect. With this award, the FWF not only honors exceptional academic careers, but also offers researchers the resources they need to advance their own research work at the highest international level.

Gruppenbild der FWF-START und Wittgenstein-Preisträger — Setting the stage for outstanding research: The researchers accepting their awards at the formal award ceremony © Daniel Novotny/FWF

Target group

The funding program is aimed at outstanding researchers from all disciplines.

Funding goals

The program provides both recognition and support to excellent researchers (up to 60 years of age) who have already produced exceptional work and who occupy a prominent place in the international scientific community.

Funding period and funding amount

60 months
€1.5 million

Monika Henzinger 2021

In 2021, the prize was awarded to the German computer scientist Monika Henzinger (*1966). She holds a PhD from Princeton University in the US, was a research manager at Google, and has been a professor at the University of Vienna since 2009. Henzinger’s work focuses on the development and analysis of algorithms, with special emphasis on the protection of private data. The globally influential researcher holds over 80 patents.