Hardy R. Schmitz was honoured on 9 February 2016 for his services to the Adlershof campus. He was Managing Director of Wista Management GmbH for 14 years until the turn of the year 2015/2016. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, President of Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (HU), emphasised his many years of commitment to the development of the location, to the HU institutes located in Adlershof and in particular to the Graduate School of Excellence SALSA and the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof.
