Honors and Awards 2023–2026
Last update: September 2026
Items already listed in the last research report, due to partially overlapping reporting periods, are marked with *.
Ahner, Helen Member of the presidium of the "Die Junge Akademie," Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2025; Member of the "Die Junge Akademie," Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2024; Manfred Lautenschläger Prize, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2024.
Appelhoff, Stefan Open Science Innovation Award, MPI for Human Development, 2024.
Bauer, Thomas / Gigerenzer, Gerd / Krämer, Walter / Schüller, Katharina getAbstract Book Award, Business Impact Award for Grüne fahren SUV und Joggen macht unsterblich, getAbstract, 2023.
Berger, Julian Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics, Joachim Herz Foundation, 2025.
Bermudez Schettino, Rodrigo Best Poster-Award in the Section "Most Informative & Intuitive Design," International Marsilius Academies, 2025.
Ciranka, Simon Salto Exchange Programme, Max Planck Society, 2023.
De la Derna, Ignacio Grant for Technical AI Safety research, in the area of "Finding feature representations," Coefficient Giving, 2025.
Dhellemmes, Félicie Best Presentation Award at the Scientific Networking Days of Science of Intelligence, Science of Intelligence, 2025.
Engelmann, Neele Disciplinary Diversity & Integration Award in Cognitive Science at the CogSci 2024 for the paper "Understanding rule enforcement using drift diffusion models," Cognitive Science Society, 2024.
Espinosa de Villafranca, Pedro Young Scholar for the LEVANTE initiative, Jacobs Foundation, 2025.
Fraemke, Deniz TwinLife User Conference – Travel Award, University of Bremen, 2025; BGA Student Travel Award, Behavior Genetics Association, 2024.
Frevert, Ute Senior Fellowship Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2026; *President / Appointed President, Max Weber Foundation, 2023.
Gigerenzer, Gerd International Fellow, The British Academy, 2024; Honorary Doctorate, University of Southampton, 2024; Inauguration of the "Gerd Gigerenzer Laboratory of Psychology," Woxsen University, 2024; Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2024; ERC Vice-President for Social Sciences and Humanities, European Research Council (ERC), 2024; *Larry H. Strasburger MD Award, Harvard Medical School, 2023.
Givon-Benjio, Nur Minerva Fellowship, Minerva Stiftung, 2026.
Harerimana, Nadia / Raffington, Laurel / Zarandooz, Sepideh / Fraemke, Deniz / Willems, Yayouk Academic partner, European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN), 2024.
Hechtlinger, Shahar de Finetti Award of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM), European Association for Decision Making (EADM), 2025.
Hertwig, Ralph Allais Memorial Prize in Behavioral Sciences, Maurice Allais Foundation, 2026; Wilhelm Wundt Medal 2026, German Psychological Society, 2026.
International Max Planck Research School on Learning, Institutions, and Future Evolution (LIFE) Permanent establishment of IMPRS LIFE in honor of the graduate program's outstanding achievements, Max Planck Society, 2025.
Köbis, Nils EU Horizon Grant for his project RESPOND – Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies, European Commission, 2023.
Kozyreva, Anastasia / Wineburg, Sam / Lewandowsky, Stephan / Hertwig, Ralph * Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens designated as one of the 10 most impactful articles in 2022, Association for Psychological Research, 2023.
Kühn, Simone Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft 2024 [100 most important minds in capital city science], Tagesspiegel, 2024; *ERC Consolidator Grant 2022, European Research Council (ERC), 2023; Fellow, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), 2023; Member of the DFG Review Board, DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2023.
Lindenberger, Ulman International Fellow, The British Academy, 2025; Fellow, The Royal Society, 2025; *Foreign Member (Class for Social Sciences), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2023.
Lorenz-Spreen, Philipp APS Rising Star 2024, Association for Psychological Science, 2024.
Mayer, Karl Ulrich Preis der DGS für ein hervorragendes wissenschaftliches Lebenswerk, German Sociological Association (GSA), 2026.
Mohammadi, Siawoosh *ERC Consolidator Grant 2022, European Research Council (ERC), 2023.
Ngo, Chi (Zoe) Part of the first Cohort of the 2024 Jacobs Foundation LEVANTE Program, Jacobs Foundation, 2025.
Offer, Konstantin Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration, Joachim Herz Foundation, 2024.
Pahl, Kerstin Maria Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Intellectual History, University of Oxford, 2026; Member of the presidium, European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), 2025, *Fulbright Fellowship, Harvard University, 2023; *Präsidium „Die Junge Akademie,“ BBAW, 2023.
Peikert, Aaron Dieter Rampacher Prize 2023, Max Planck Society, 2024; Otto Hahn Medal 2024, Max Planck Society, 2024.
Peikert, Aaron / Diemerling, Hannes / Brandmaier, Andreas M. / Ernst, Maximilian S. Open Science Innovation Award, MPI for Human Development, 2025.
Poser, Benedikt ISMRM Senior Fellowship, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2026.
Power, Sarah Child & Brain Development Next Generation Scholar Award 2023–2024, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), 2023.
Raffington, Laurel Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship, Jacobs Foundation, 2025; Early Career Award, Behavior Genetics Association, 2025; R01 research grant, National Institutes of Health, 2024.
Rahwan, Iyad Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation, Fondazione CRT, in collaboration with the ISI Foundation, 2025; Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft 2023 [100 most important minds in capital city science], Tagesspiegel, 2023; Top Artificial Intelligence Visionaries in the Arab World, Inc. Arabia, 2023.
Sarıoğlu, Esra *Best Book Award 2023 for The body unburdened. Violence, emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey, ASA Section on Sociology of Body & Embodiment, American Sociological Association, 2023.
Schwarze, Sina A. Otto Hahn Medal 2025, Max Planck Society, 2025.
Sperber, Jessica F. / deSteiguer, Abby / Willems, Yayouk / Zipple, Matthew Wiley Young Investigator Award for the symposium "Epigenetic signatures of socioeconomic position across childhood," International Society of Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) in collaboration with Wiley, 2025.
Thoma, Anna I. Otto Hahn Medal 2024, Max Planck Society, 2024.
Wagner, Gert G. *APS Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, 2023.
Werner, Tobias Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration, Joachim Herz Foundation, 2025.
Wertz, Annie E. *Don Symons Award for best paper of last 3 years, How plants shape the mind, Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), 2023.
Willems, Yayouk / Raffington, Laurel Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship, European Commission, 2024.
Yun, Chaewon / Tuchtfeld, Erik / Tiedeke, Anna Sophia / Johannsen, Germán Oscar "Best Research Environment Award" for their joint research group humanet3, Die Junge Akademie, in cooperation with the Volkswagen Foundation, 2025.