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s. It is awarded once per year by the Austrian Science Fund on behalf of the Austrian Ministry for Science. It is endowed with up to 1.2 million Euro for a proposed research project for six years. The recipients are selected by an international jury of experts. The same jury also selects the recipients of the related

Wittgenstein-Preis The Wittgenstein Award (german: Wittgenstein-Preis) is an Austrian science award supporting the notion that "scientists should be guaranteed the greatest possible freedom and flexibility in the performance of their research." The prize money of up ...

Recipients

* 1996: Christian Koeberl, Ferenc Krausz, Ulrich Schmid, Peter Szmolyan, Karl Unterrainer, Harald Weinfurter,

Gerhard J. Woeginger Gerhard J. Woeginger (31 May 1964 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist who worked in Germany as a professor at RWTH Aachen University, where he chaired the algorithms and complexity group in the department of co ...

, Jakob Woisetschläger * 1997: Gerhard Holzapfel, Bernhard Palme, Michael Schmid * 1998: Peter Grabner, Gottfried Kirchengast, Rudolf Valenta, Gerhard Widmer * 1999: Christoph Marschner, Norbert Mauser, Otmar Scherzer, Thomas Schrefl, Christoph Spötl, Joseph Strauss * 2000: Thomas Brabec, Susanne Kalss, Dietrich Leibfried, Herbert Strobl, Bernhard Tilg * 2001: Markus Arndt, Michael Buchmeiser, Wolfgang Drexler, Wilfried Ellmeier, Clemens Sedmak * 2002: Wolfgang Heiss, Michael Jursa, Georg Schett, Dieter Schmalstieg, Joachim Schöberl * 2003: Georg Kresse, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, Andreas Villunger * 2004: Thomas Bachner, Michael Kunzinger, Vassil Palankovski, Thomas Prohaska, Gerhard Schütz * 2005: Michael Hintermüller, Matthias Horn, Andrea Lusser, Michael Moser, Norbert Zimmermann * 2006: Hartmut Häffner, Norbert Polacek, Piet Schmidt,

Josef Teichmann Josef Teichmann (* 27 August 1972 in Lienz) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at ETH Zürich working on mathematical finance. After studying mathematics at the University of Graz, he pursued his PhD at the University of Vienna. The titl ...

Gerald Teschl Gerald Teschl (born 12 May 1970 in Graz) is an Austrian mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics. He works in the area of mathematical physics; in particular direct and inverse spectral theory with application to completely integrable ...

* 2007: Kathrin Breuker, Thomas Bugnyar, Otfried Gühne, Bernhard Lamel, Thomas Lörting, Paul Mayrhofer, Sigrid Wadauer, Thomas Wallnig * 2008: Markus Aspelmeyer, Tom J. Battin, Massimo Fornasier, Daniel Grumiller, Alexander Kendl, Karel Riha, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Christina Waldsich * 2009: Francesca Ferlaino,

Ilse Fischer Ilse Fischer (born 29 June 1975) is an Austrian mathematician whose research concerns enumerative combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, connecting these topics to representation theory and statistical mechanics. She is a professor of mathemat ...

, Arthur Kaser,

Manuel Kauers Manuel Kauers (born 20 February 1979 in Lahnstein, West Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is working on computer algebra and its applications to discrete mathematics. He is currently professor for algebra at Joha ...

, Thorsten Schumm, David Teis * 2010: Julius Brennecke, Barbara Horejs, Barbara Kraus,

Melanie Malzahn Melanie Malzahn (born 1973 in Hamburg) is a German professor of Indo-European studies at the University of Vienna specializing in the history of the Tocharian languages. Biography Between 1992 and 1999, Malzahn studied linguistics and Ancient Near ...

, Florian Schreck, Bojan Zagrovic * 2011: Peter Balazs, Agata Ciabattoni, Sebastian Diehl, Alwin Köhler, Thomas Müller, Peter Rabl, Michael Sixt, Philip Walther * 2012: Julia Budka, Kaan Boztug, Alexander Dammermann, Jürgen Hauer, Michael Kirchler, Sofia Kantorovich, Michael Kirchler, Franz Schuster * 2013: Stefan L. Ameres, Notburga Gierlinger, Clemens Heitzinger, Georgios Katsaros, David A. Keays, Ovidiu Paun, Thomas Pock, Paolo Sartori, Stefan Woltran * 2014: Bettina Bader, Mathias Beiglböck,

Karin Schnass Karin Schnass (born 1980) is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. Education and career Schnass was born in Kloster ...

, René Thiemann, Sigrid Neuhauser, Alexander Grüneis, Markus Aichhorn, Manuel Schabus * 2015: Christoph Aistleitner, Ivona Brandić, Marcus Huber, Ben P. Lanyon, Gareth Parkinson, Rupert Seidl, Kristina Stöckl,

Caroline Uhler Caroline Uhler (born 1983) is a Swiss statistician working in the field of machine learning and applications in genomics. Her research focuses on developing methods for causal inference to infer regulatory relationships from different data modaliti ...

* 2016: Christopher Campbell, Felix Höflmayer, Nikolai Kiesel,

Tracy Northup Tracy E. Northup (born 1978) is an American physicist who works at the Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research considers the development optical cavities and trapped ions to better quantum mechanical int ...

, Michael Eichmair,

Harald Grobner Harald Grobner (born 4 December 1980 in Neunkirchen, Austria) is an Austrian mathematician at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna. His research focuses on questions of algebra and number theory within the Langlands program. Caree ...

* 2017: Hannes Fellner, Claudine Kraft, Wolfgang Lechner, Vera Fischer, Miriam Unterlass, Andrea Pauli * 2018: Emanuela Bianchi, Josef Norbert Füssl, Philipp Haslinger, Oliver Hofmann, Robert R. Junker, Gina Elaine Moseley * 2019: Moritz Brehm, Christa Cuchiero, Bruno de Nicola, Christoph Gammer, José Luis Romero, Richard Wilhelm * 2020: Alice Auersperg, Elisa Davoli, Gemma De las Cuevas, Robert Ganian, Julia Lajta-Novak, Aleksandar Matkovic, Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt

References

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External links

START-Preis page of the Austrian Science Fund
Austrian science and technology awards