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.

2016

Peter M. Jonas

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

"Neurology (SynapticCommunication in Neuronal Microcircuits)"

2015

Claudia Rapp

University of Vienna, Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Studies

"Byzantium, LateAntiquity, Social and Cultural History"

2014

Josef Penninger

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

"Functional Genetics"

2013

Ulrike Diebold

TU Wien, Institute of Applied Physics

"Surface Science"

2012

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

Institute of Physical Chemistry and Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells

"Solar Energy Conversion"

 

Thomas A. Henzinger

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

"Formal Methods for the Design and Analysis of Complex Systems"

 

2011

Gerhard J. Herndl

University of Vienna, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology

"Microbial Oceanography, Marine Biochemistry"

 

Jan-Michael Peters

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

"Chromosome Segregation during Human Cell Division"

2010

Wolfgang Lutz

Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Human Capital and Development Institute

"Demography"

2009

Jürgen A. Knoblich

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

"Asymmetric Cell Division"

 

Gerhard Widmer

University of Linz, Institute for Computational Perception

Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

"Computer Science, AI, Music"

2008

Markus Arndt

University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics

"Quantum Interference with Clusters and Complex Molecules"

2007

Christian Krattenthaler

University of Vienna, Faculty of Mathematics

"Classic Combinatorics and Applications"

 

Rudolf Zechner

University of Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences

"Metabolic Lipase in Lipid and Energy Metabolism"

2006

Hannes-Jörg Schmiedmayer

TU Wien, Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics

"Atomic Physics, Quantum Optics, Miniaturising on a Chip"

2005

Barry J. Dickson

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

"The development and function of neural circuits"

 

Rudolf Grimm

University of Innsbruck, Institute for Experimental Physics

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

"Atomic and Molecular Quantum Gases"

2004

Walter Pohl

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Studies

University of Vienna, Institute of History

"Early Medieval History and Culture"

2003

Renée Schroeder

University of Vienna, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics

"RNA Folding and Catalysis, RNABinding Antibiotics"

2002

Ferenc Krausz

TU Wien, Photonics Institute

"Quantum Optics: Ultrafast and High-Field Processes"

2001

Meinrad Busslinger

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

"Molecular Mechanisms of Lineage Commitment in the Hematopoietic System"

 

Heribert Hirt

University of Vienna, Center for Molecular Biology

"Cell Division Control in Plants"

2000

Andre Gingrich

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology

"Local Identities and Wider Influences"

 

Peter A. Markowich

University of Vienna, Institute for Mathematics

"Applied Mathematics"

1999

Kim Ashley Nasmyth

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

"Yeast Cell Cycle"

1998

Georg Gottlob

TU Wien, Institute for Information Systems

"Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence"

 

Walter Schachermayer

TU Wien, Institute for Statistics and Probability Theory

"Stochastic Processes in Finance"

 

Peter Zoller

University of Innsbruck, Institute for Physics

"Theoretical Quantum Optics and Quantum Information"

 

1997

Erich Gornik

TU Wien, Institute of Solid State Electronics

"Semiconductor Nanoelectronics"

 

Antonius und Marjori Matzke

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology

"Epigenetic Inactivation of Transgenes in Plants"

1996

Erwin F. Wagner

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)

"Morphogenesis of the Vertebrate Face"

 

Ruth Wodak

Austrian Academy of Sciences

"Discourse, Politics, Identity"

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