Sofia Kovalevskaya Award
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The Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation of Germany
bestows the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award every two years. Sofia Kovalevskaya
(1850–1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician
, who made important contributions to mathematical analysis
, differential equations and mechanics
, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe
. This prestigious award named in her honor is given to promising young academics to pursue their line of research in the sciences or arts and humanities. The foundation encourages applications from all areas of the academy so long as the investigator received a Ph.D. in the last six years and may be categorized as "top flight" by their publications and experience as commensurate with age.
There have been 59 awards since the inception of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2002. Individual awards may total up to 1.6 million Euro each. Funds are awarded to build and lead a team of researchers for a five year period within a German host institution. The award is arguably one of the most prestigious and innovative awards in the world and is designed to foster long-term connections between Germany and world class young talent.
The next round of award winners, up to eight in total, will be announced in late March 2010. In the last round there were approximately 75 applicants and eight awards available, therefore the success rate of each application was around 10-15%. The next application period begins in 2011 and the number of awards will be announced nearer to the Autumn of 2011.
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Germany
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bestows the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award every two years. Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to...
(1850–1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, who made important contributions to mathematical analysis
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical analysis, which mathematicians refer to simply as analysis, has its beginnings in the rigorous formulation of infinitesimal calculus. It is a branch of pure mathematics that includes the theories of differentiation, integration and measure, limits, infinite series, and analytic functions...
, differential equations and mechanics
Mechanics
Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....
, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe
Northern Europe
Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Northern Europe typically refers to the seven countries in the northern part of the European subcontinent which includes Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland and Sweden...
. This prestigious award named in her honor is given to promising young academics to pursue their line of research in the sciences or arts and humanities. The foundation encourages applications from all areas of the academy so long as the investigator received a Ph.D. in the last six years and may be categorized as "top flight" by their publications and experience as commensurate with age.
There have been 59 awards since the inception of the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2002. Individual awards may total up to 1.6 million Euro each. Funds are awarded to build and lead a team of researchers for a five year period within a German host institution. The award is arguably one of the most prestigious and innovative awards in the world and is designed to foster long-term connections between Germany and world class young talent.
The next round of award winners, up to eight in total, will be announced in late March 2010. In the last round there were approximately 75 applicants and eight awards available, therefore the success rate of each application was around 10-15%. The next application period begins in 2011 and the number of awards will be announced nearer to the Autumn of 2011.
Award winners
2002- Tiziana Boffa Ballaran
- Anne Bouloumié
- Luc BovensLuc BovensDr Luc Bovens is a Belgian professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics, and former editor of Economics and Philosophy. His main areas of research are moral and political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of public policy, Bayesian epistemology, rational choice theory,...
- Stephane Charlot
- Volker Deckert
- Paolo D'Iorio
- Oliver Eickelberg
- Michael Feiginov
- Michael Gotthardt
- Stefan HechtStefan HechtStefan Hecht is a German chemist, working in the area of functional nanostructures. He is currently full professor at Humboldt University of Berlin and holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry and Functional Materials at the Department of Chemistry....
- Daniel Hofstetter
- Judith Klein-Seetharaman
- Manuel Koch
- Yuriy Makhlin
- Matilde MarcolliMatilde MarcolliMatilde Marcolli is an Italian mathematical physicist.- Career :Marcolli obtained her Laurea in Physics in 1993 summa cum laude from the University of Milan under the supervision of Renzo Piccinini, with a thesis on Classes of self equivalences of fibre bundles...
- Krzysztof Oplustil
- Kawon Oum
- Jane Elizabeth Parker
- Maxim Polyakov
- Alexander Pukhov
- Tina Romeis
- Luis SantosLuís SantosLuis Maurício Capelache dos Santos is a male water polo player from Brazil, who plays as a goalkeeper. He competed for his native country at the 2007 Pan American Games, where he claimed the silver medal with the Brazil men's national water polo team.-References:...
- Jochen SchneiderJochen SchneiderJochen Schneider is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships a silver and a bronze ....
- Joachim Schultze
- Eva Stoger
- Greg J. Stuart
- Gleb Sukhorukov
- Grigori Vajenine
- Zhong Zhang
2004
- Lucas Brunsveld
- Yanbei Chen
- Ferdinando Cicalese
- Michal Czakon
- Mark Depauw
- Brian Hare
- Jian-Wei Pan
- Tricia StrianoTricia Striano- Career :Tricia Striano was born in Weymouth Massachusetts. She obtained her BA in psychology from The College of the Holy Cross. She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology from Emory University in 2000, after which she became Head of the Independent Research Group on Cultural Ontogeny at the Max...
- Doris Y. Tsao
- Eckhard von Törne
- Martin Wilmking
2006
- Jens Bredenbeck
- Jure Demsar
- Felix Engel
- Natalia Filatkina
- Olga HoltzOlga Holtzthumb|Olga Holtz at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], October 2009Olga Holtz is a Russian mathematician who received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2006 and the European Mathematical Society Prize...
- Reinhard Kienberger
- Marga Cornelia Lensen
- Martin Lövden
- Thomas Misgeld
- Benjamin Schlein
- Taolei Sun
2008
- Cinzia Casiraghi, Italy, Physics, Freie Universität Berlin
- Karl Sebastian Lang, Austria, Medicine Universität Düsseldorf
- Esther Lutgens, The Netherlands, Medicine, RWTH AachenRWTH AachenRWTH Aachen University is a research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with roughly 33,000 students enrolled in 101 study programs....
- Nathan MacDonald, Great Britain, Biblical Theology, Universität Göttingen
- Daniele Oriti, Italy, Theoretical Physics, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik GolmGolm (Potsdam)Golm is a locality of Potsdam, the capital of the German state of Brandenburg. The former municipality was incorporated in 2003....
- Jan-Erik Siemens, Germany (previously at UC San Francisco), Neurophysiology, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin
- Mirka Uhlirova, Czech Republic, Molecular Genetics, Universität zu Köln
- Aleksi Vuorinen, Finland, Theoretical Physics, Universität Bielefeld