The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) awarded the 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to three female and seven male researchers. The selection committee chose the winners from a pool of 144 nominees. Of the ten prizewinners, three work in the humanities and social sciences, two in the life sciences, three in the natural sciences and two in the engineering sciences. The winners each receive €2.5 million in prize money. They are entitled to use the prize money for their research work in any way they wish, without bureaucratic obstacles, for a period of up to seven years. The Leibniz Prizes will be officially presented on 18 March 2026 in Berlin. 

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