Leibniz Dissertation Award
Since 1997, the Leibniz Association has been presenting a Dissertation Award for outstanding achievements in a PhD. Since 2007, the prize has been awarded annually in two categories: Humanities & Social Sciences and Natural & Technical Sciences. It is a way for the Association to recognise two outstanding PhD dissertations from member institutes. The prize is worth 5,000 euros.
Prizewinners 2025
Cäcilia vom Baur Ph.D.
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Technological Change: Origins and Impacts in the Labor Market“
Dr. Lisa Budzinski
German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Single-cell Microbiota Signatures in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases“
2024
Dr rer. pol. Hana Attia
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Biased Coercion: The Imposition, Management, and Termination of US Sanctions“Dr rer. nat. Sara Kopf
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Development of Hydrogen Isotope Exchange Methodologies for the Deuteration of Aromatic Substrates“Dr rer. nat. Maximilian Kotz
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„The economic costs of climate change: accounting for the changing variability and extremes of temperature and precipitation“2023
Dr-Ing. Nicole Mensching
Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering — IWT
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Charakterisierung metallischer Werkstoffe durch partikel-orientiertes Strahlen“Dr rer. pol. Jonas Jessen
German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Unintended Consequences and Spill-over Effects of Family Policies: Six Essays in Labour and Family Economics”2022
Dr Magdalena Novak
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Touch this wisely – you may want to know more … How the haptic sense may enhance learning experiences and learning outcomes”Dr Marina Pekmezović
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Fungal virulence attributes and epithelial responses during vaginal Candida infections“2021
Dr Pola Lehmann
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Political Parties as Agents of Deliberative Representation. How Parties Change Positions When Moving between the Electoral Arena and the Parliamentary Arena.”Dr Oana Patricia Zaharia
German Diabetes Center - Leibniz Institute for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (DDZ)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Risk of diabetes-associated diseases in subgroups of patients with recent-onset diabetes: a 5-year follow-up study.”2020
Dr Michelle Beghelli
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum - Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology (RGZM), Mainz
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„From the quarry to the church. The economics of Early Medieval stone architectural sculpture: materials, makers and patrons (7th - 9th centuries)”Dr Pattarachai Srimuk
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Faradaic electrode materials for next-generation electrochemical water desalination”To the video of the award ceremony
2019
Dr Felix Haaß
German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg (GIGA)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Buying Democracy? The Political Economy of Foreign Aid, Power-Sharing Governments, and Post-Conflict Political Development“Dr Catrin Ciemer
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Complex systems analysis of changing rainfall regimes in South America and their implications for the Amazon rainforest“2018
Dr Carlos Alberto Haas
Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (IfZ)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Das Private im Getto. Transformationen jüdischen privaten Lebens in den Gettos von Warschau, Litzmannstadt, Tomaschow und Petrikau 1939-1944“Dr Aleeza Farrukh
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Photo-Triggerable Laminin Mimetic Peptides for Directional Neural Regeneration“2017
Dr Julia Strasheim
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Hamburg
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Interim Governments and the Stability of Post-Interim Peace“Dr Leonie Wenz
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Climate change impacts in an increasingly connected world“2016
Dr Stefan Huber
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Towards a Common Model Framework for Number Comparison"Dr Maria Richter
Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Imaging and controlling electronic and nuclear dynamics in strong laser fields“2015
Dr Tobias Stöhr
Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„Social and Economic Effects of Migration“Dr Judith Mylius
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN), Magdeburg
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Phasic and tonic changes of neuronal activity in primate auditory cortex induced by the dopaminergic ventral midbrain“2014
Dr Hauke S. Meyerhoff
Leibniz- Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Linking perceptual animacy to visual attention: An investigation of detection efficiency and attentional bias for chasing objects among distracters"Dr Mehmet Kaynak
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics / Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik (IHP), Frankfurt (Oder)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"RF-MEMS Switch Module in a 0.25µm SiGe:C BiCMOS Process"Dr Tom Bretschneider
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"In vitro Charakterisierung nicht kanonischer Ketosynthasen und Imaging-Massenspektrometrie von Naturstoffen"2013
Dr Kristina Tschulik
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"Electrochemical Deposition of Metallic Layers and Structures in Magnetic Gradient Fields"Dr Erik Hornung
Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich e. V.
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Human Capital,Technology Diffusion and Economic Growth – Evidence from Prussion Census Data"2012
Dr Claudia Dziallas
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"Microbial interactions with cyanobacteria and zooplankton"Dr Anja Hanisch
Institute of Contemporary History Munich - Berlin (IfZ)
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Die DDR im KSZE-Prozess 1972-1985. Zwischen Ostabhängigkeit, Westabgrenzung und Ausreisebewegung"2011
Dr Henriette Kirchner
German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam Rehbrücke Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„The ghrelin system links dietary lipids with the endocrine control of energy homeostasis“Dr Martin Binder
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
„The Selectivity of Humanitarian Intervention“2010
Dr Kristin Knipfer
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen
„Pro oder kontra Nanotechnologie? Unterstützung von kritischem Denken und reflektiertem Urteilen im Museum“Dr Pierre-Étienne Druet
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
„Analysis eines Modells für die Kristallzüchtung aus der Schmelze unter Magnetfeldern“2009
Dr Alexander Petring
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Reformtätigkeit in Wohlfahrtsstaaten - Akteure, Konstellationen und Institutionen"Dr Angelika Sturm
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"Parasit-Wirtszell Interaktionen während der Malaria Leberphase"2008
Dr Xiaobing Wang
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Labor market behavior of Chinese rural households during Transition"Dr Christian Merkl
Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Monetary and Labor Policies under Market Frictions"Dr Laura Busse
German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Goettingen
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"Effects of selective attention on sensory processing of visual Motion"2007
Dr Markus Huff
Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen
Category Humanities and Social Sciences
"Verbalisierungsprozesse bei dynamischen Szenen"Dr Lise Bech Christensen
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
Category Natural and Technical Sciences
"Probing quasar sight lines in three dimensions"2006
Dr Andrea Walther
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI), Jena
"Molekulare Analysen des Aktinzytoskeletts des polaren Wachstums in Ashbya grossypii und Candida albicans"2005
Dr Anneke Funk
Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI), Hamburg
"Identifizierung und funktionelle Modulation essentieller zellulärer Komponenten für die Propagation von Hepatitis-B-Viren"2004
Dr Robert Arlinghaus
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin
"A human dimensions approach towards sustainable recreational fisheries management"2003
Dr Michael Fertig
RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen
"Germany as an Immigration Country – Empirical Evidence"2002
Dr Dietmar Süß
Institute of Contemporary History Munich - Berlin (IfZ)
"Kumpel und Genossen. Arbeiterschaft, Betrieb und Sozialdemokratie in der bayerischen Montanindustrie 1945 – 1976"2001
Dr Richard Kopold
Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Berlin
"Atomare Ionisationsdynamik in starken Laserfeldern"2000
Dr Dr Holger Boche
Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik in Berlin
"Untersuchungen zur Approximation im Komplexen"1999
Dr Andreas Gröhn
Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
"Netzwerkeffekte und Wettbewerbspolitik: eine ökonomische Analyse des Software-Marktes"1998
Dr Thorsten Wieprecht
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Berlin
"Der Einfluss struktureller Parameter auf die Membranaktivität antibakterieller Magainin-analoger Peptide"1997
Dr Anett Vahle
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZR)
"Hochtemperaturgaschromatographie mit Spurenmengen der Homologen des Elements 106 im O2-H2O(g)/SiO2(s)-System"
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