On June 16, the startup Ovo Labs, was awarded the Max Planck Startup Award of the Stifterverband 2026.The prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, was awarded to Ovo Labs…
Category: Awards & Prizes
Anna Grebinyk is among the Zia fellows profiled by die ZEIT
Anna Grebinyk, the Treasurer of the German-Ukrainian Academic Society, was recently selected to become a Zia fellow. The German nationwide newspaper DIE ZEIT profiled the fellows, including Anna,…
Social and legal anthropologist Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva, Switzerland) is awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Dr Nataliya Tchermalykh is Research Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in the Faculty of Anthropology and Sociology. A legal anthropologist by training,…
Molecular biologist Nataliya Petryk (CNRS, France) awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant
A CNRS researcher within the Genome Integrity and Cancer unit (IGC – Univ. Paris-Saclay/Gustave Roussy/CNRS), Nataliya Petryk leads the Genome and Epigenome Replication team (Réplication du génome et…
Theoretical physicist Maksym Serbyn (IST Austria) wins an ERC Consolidator Grant
Maksym Serbyn develops theoretical frameworks to describe the complexity of many-body quantum phenomena. He has now been awarded his second ERC grant for the project “QMbeyondU: Quantum matter…
Physicist Andrii Chumak (University of Vienna) is awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Mid-Career Award
DUAG member phycisist Prof. Dr. Andrii Chumak (University of Vienna, Austria), where he leads the Nanomagnetism and Magnonics group, has been awarded the 2026 IEEE Magnetics Society Mid-Career…
Heritage scientist Antonina Chaban is awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Heritage scientist Antonina Chaban (The Cnr-National Institute of Optics/ Cnr-Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO, Florence, Italy) won an ERC Starting Grant for her project HeRiDe: “Advancing HeRitage science…
Germany, DFG: von Kaven Award 2025 Goes to Mathematician Andrii Mironchenko
Andrii Mironchenko’s work is concerned with so-called infinite-dimensional systems – mathematical models that may underlie optimised, adaptive and self-regulating traffic-control systems, for example, or intelligent power networks. They…
Ukrainian journalist and media scholar Dr Nataliia Steblyna named by Der Tagesspiegel as one of the 100 most important and influential scientists in the Berlin-Brandenburg region
The Berlin-based newspaper DER TAGESSPIEGEL listed Dr. Nataliia Steblyna as one of the 100 most important and influential scientists in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. TAGESSPIEGEL’s laudation: Ukrainian researcher Nataliia…
Neuroscientist Mykhailo Batiuk is awarded an ERC starting grant
Mykhailo Batiuk (Private photo) Dr. Mykhailo Batiuk, currently at the EPFL (Switzerland) won an ERC starting grant for his project sc-PTSD: Single Cell PTSD: Novel Target Identification to…