Young Investigator Award

The Young Investigator Award is an initiative of the Faculty of Life Sciences designed to honour young postdoctoral scientists publishing in the top journals of their field. Award recipients are selected based on their publication output. They are expected to use the grant, which will is formally disbursed to the account of their department, to conduct research or to support their participation at international meetings.

2024

  • Reynalda Córdova (Department of Nutritional Sciences)
  • Maria Santacá (Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)

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  • Former Awardees

    2023

    • Pere Gelabert (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology)
    • Arindam Ghatak (Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology)
    • Daijun Liu (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)
    • Darrin T. Schultz (Department of Neuroscience and Developmental Biology)
    • Laura van der Sluis (Department of Evolutionary Anthropology)

    2022

    • Petra Sumasgutner (Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)
    • Johannes Wessely (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)

    2021

    • Barbara Fischer (Department of Evolutionary Biology)
    • Bernd Lenzner (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)

    2020

    • Daniel Fernandes (Department of Evolutionary Anthopology)
    • Guillaume Latome (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)

    2019

    • Palak Chaturvedi (Department of Ecogenomic and Systemsbiology)
    • Bea Maas (Department of Botany und Biodiversity Research)

    2018

    • Bernhard Franzke (Department of Nutritional Sciences)
    • Simon Rittmann (Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology)
    • Sonja Windhager (Department of Theoretical Biology)

    2017

    • Florian Hofhansl (Dept. of Botany and Biodiversity Research)
    • Christina Romera-Castillo (Dept. of Limnology und Bio-Oceanography)
    • Dongdong Wang (Dept. of Pharmacognosy)

    2016

    • David Bowling (Department of Cognitive Biology)

    2015

    • Ulrike Grienke (Dept. of Pharmacognosy)
    • Vittorio Pace (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry)

    2014

    • Marisa Höschele (Dept. of Cognitive Biology)
    • Jorg J. M. Massen (Dept. of Cognitive Biology)

    2013

    • David Berry (Dept. of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science)
    • Constanze Voss (Dept. of Pharmacognosy)
    • Sonja Windhager (Dept. of Anthropology)

    2012

    • Stefan Schindler (Dept. of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology)

    2010

    • Rita Dornetshuber (Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
    • Grigory Genikhovich (Dept. of Molecular Evolution and Development)
    • Sabine Krist (Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy and Diagnostics)
    • Philipp Mitteröcker (Dept. of Theoretical Biology)
    • Oliver Neubauer (Dept. of Nutritional Sciences)
    • Friederike Range (Dept. of Cognitive Biology)
    • Christian Schlögl (Dept. of Behavioural Biology)

Gertrud Pleskot Award

The Gertrud Pleskot Award is designed to promote young female scientists at the Faculty of Life Sciences especially early in their scientific careers and is awarded based on the same criteria as the Young Investigator Award. Read more about Gertrud Pleskot (in German).

2024

  • Olga Kepinska (Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology)

 

 

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  • Former Awardees

    2023

    • Ya Chen (Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences)

    2022

    • Nicole Grunstra (Department of Evolutionary Biology)
    • Nazlisadat Seyed Khoei (Department of Nutritional Sciences)

    2021

    • Annette Brandt (Department of Nutritional Sciences)

    2020

    • Agnes Dellinger (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research)

    2019

    • Carina Siutz (Department of Behavioural Biology)
    • Ruth Sophie Taubner (Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology)

    2018

    • Victoria Klang (Department of Pharm.Technology and Biopharmaceutics)
    • Georgina Szipl (Core Facility Konrad Lorenz Research Station for Behaviour and Cognition, Grünau im Almtal)

    2017

    • Angela Ladurner (Dept. of Pharmacognosy)
    • Jessica Kozlowski (Dept. of Ecogenomics und Systems Biology)

    2016

    •  Eva Ringler (­Department of Integrative Zoology)

    2015

    • Magdalena Hoppel (Dept. of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics)
    • Iva Kelava (Dept. of Molecular Evolution and Development)

    2014

    • Ruxandra McKinnon (Dept. of Pharmacognosy)

    2013

    • Alice Auersperg (Dept. of Cognitive Biology)
    • Barbara Zdrazil (Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry)

    2012

    • Michaela Schwaiger (Dept. of Molecular Evolution and Development)
    • Anna Weinzinger (Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology)