The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the largest award in German research. The goal of the Leibniz Program is to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists and scholars, to expand their research possibilities, to reduce their administrative workloads, and to facilitate the employment of particularly qualified younger scientists.

Since 1988, 18 professors at Freie Universitaet Berlin have received the Leibniz Prize.

Overview

• Year: 1987
  Prof. Dr. Volker Erdmann
  Subject Area: Biochemistry
• Year: 1987
  Prof. Dr. Wolfram Saenger
  Subject Area: Biochemistry
• Year: 1991
  Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel
  Subject Area: Neurobiology
• Year: 1992
  Prof. Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
  Subject Area: Japanese Studies
• Year: 1992
  Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka
  Subject Area: Social History
• Year: 1994
  Prof. Dr. Johann Mulzer
  Subject Area: Organic Chemistry
• Year: 1994
  Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer
  Subject Area: Judaic Studies
• Year: 1995
  Prof. Dr. Emo Welzl
  Subject Area: Computer Studies
• Year: 1998
  Prof. Dr. Onno Oncken
  Subject Area: Geology
• Year: 1998
  Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge
  Subject Area: Microbiology
• Year: 2001
  Prof. Dr. Joachim Küpper
  Subject Area: Romance Languages and Literature
• Year: 2001
  Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler
  Subject Area: Mathematics
• Year: 2003
  Prof. Dr. Hélène Esnault
  Subject Area: Mathematics
• Year: 2003
  Prof. Dr. Rupert Klein
  Subject Area: Mathematics
• Year: 2003
  Prof. Dr. Gerhard Huisken
  Subject Area: Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Studies (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Golm)
• Year: 2004
  Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter
  Subject Area: Theater Studies
• Year: 2006
  Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
  Subject Area: Greek and Latin Languages and Literature
• Year: 2017
  Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
  Subject Area: Arabic Studies
• Year: 2023
  Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger
  Subject Area: Romance Languages and Literature