Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft") is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German research foundation) every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years. Every year, ten Leibniz prizes are awarded.

Prize winners of relevence to psychology include

2013

 * Onur Güntürkün, Biologische Psychologie, Universität Bochum

2012

 * Michael Brecht – Neurophysiologie/Zelluläre Neurowissenschaft (Bernstein Zentrum für Computational Neuroscience Berlin und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

2011

 * Michael Brecht, Neuroscience (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin)
 * Christian Büchel, Cognitive neuroscience (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

2010

 * Jan Born, Neuroendocrinology / Sleep research (University of Lübeck)
 * Ulman Lindenberger, Lifespan psychology (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
 * Stefan Treue, Cognitive Neurosciences (German Primate Center, Göttingen)

2009

 * Antje Boetius, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
 * Holger Braunschweig, University of Würzburg
 * Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg
 * Heinrich Detering, University of Göttingen
 * Jürgen Eckert, University of Dresden
 * Armin Falk, University of Bonn
 * Frank Kirchhoff, University of Ulm
 * Jürgen Rödel, University of Darmstadt
 * Karl Lenhard Rudolph, University of Ulm
 * Burkhard Wilking, University of Münster
 * Martin R. Zirnbauer, University of Cologne

2007

 * Magdalena Götz - neurology (GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich)

2006

 * Thomas Mussweiler – social psychology (University of Cologne)

2004

 * Karl Christoph Klauer - social and cognitive psychology (University of Bonn)
 * Hannah Monyer - neurobiology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)

2002

 * Reinhold Kliegl - general psychology (University of Potsdam)

2001

 * Arthur Konnerth - neurophysiology (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich)

2000

 * Klaus Fiedler - cognitive social psychology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)

1999

 * Hans-Christian Pape - neurophysiology (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg)

1997

 * Angela D. Friederici - neuropsychology (Max Planck Institute for Neuropsychological Research, Leipzig)

1995

 * Niels Birbaumer - psychophysiology (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
 * Thomas Schweizer (†) - cultural anthropology (University of Cologne)

1994

 * Ulf Eysel - neurophysiology (Ruhr University Bochum)

1993

 * Johannes Buchmann and Claus-Peter Schnorr - information theory (Universität Saarbrücken and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
 * Michael Frotscher - neuroanatomy (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
 * Wolfgang Prinz - psychology (MPI für für Psychologische Forschung, München)

1991

 * Randolf Menzel - zoology/neurobiology (Free University of Berlin)

1989

 * Heinrich Betz - neurobiology (Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg)

1986

 * Dietrich Dörner - psychology (Otto-Friedrich University)