On12 November, the Humboldt-Preis 2025 was presented in the Lichthof Ost of the main building. Every year, Humboldt-Universit?t honours outstanding scientific work by students and early-career researchers with this award.
This year, Tim Stiebert ("Guaranteed Lower Eigenvalue Bounds for the Schr?dinger Eigenvalue Problem") and Lena Haden ("De jüngste dochter, wat de Lena waor: Grammar and semantics of wat . . . is relative clauses in Low German") for their bachelor's dissertations (750 euros each) and Ben Gerhardt ("Three-Dimensional Architecture and Linearised Mapping of Vibrissa Follicle Afferents") for his master's thesis (1,500 euros).
Julia Stier ("Migratory Imaginaries in the Context of Senegalese Migration to Europe - Mechanisms of (Re)Production and Implications for Migration Processes"), Dustin Kass ("Mechanistic Studies on the Biomimetic Activation of Disoxygen on Non-haem Iron Complexes") and Anna Seidel("The City in a State of Emergency. Spatial subversions in Lidija Ginzburg, Miron Bia?oszewski and D?evad Karahasan") each received 3,000 euros.
The special prize for research on Judaism and anti-Semitism (2,000 euros) went to Robert Mueller-Stahl ("Das Leben festhalten. German-Jewish private photography in the 1930s"), while Daniel Kohl received the prize for the best "Research to Innovation" work (1,000 euros each) for his master's thesis ("Towards Chip-Scale Optical Atomic Clocks utilising Rubidium MEMS Cells") and Barbara Hollunder for her doctoral thesis ("Brain Stimulation as Insight into the Architecture and Therapeutic Potential of the Human Dysfunctome").
Congratulations to all award winners!