Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for Catherine Heymans | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft https://www.mpg.de/12407860/max-planck-humboldt-research-award-for-catherine-heymans
Catherine Heymans from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland is the first winner of the new Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award. The award, which is worth EUR 1.5 million, is financed by funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and awarded jointly by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition to the astrophysicist, whose research focuses on Dark Energy, honours also went to the mathematician Sam Payne and the robotics expert Robert Wood, who received the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award and prize money of EUR 60,000 each. The awards will be formally presented in Berlin on 7 November by the President of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Martin Stratmann, the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Hans-Christian Pape, and the BMBF State Secretary, Michael Meister.
University of Edinburgh since 2008, where she became a professor