Copernicus Award
# Copernicus Award

The Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award (also known as Copernicus Award) is a biannual science award conferred by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Foundation for Polish Science "to the individuals most active in Polish-German scientific cooperation who have made exceptional research achievements as a result of that cooperation." The award was established in 2006 and is named after Renaissance astronomer and polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). It carries a cash prize of €200,000 shared equally by two winners, one from Germany and one from Poland. In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must have at least a doctoral degree and work in Polish or German scientific institutions.

Permanent members of the Jury of the Copernicus Award include: Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw) – chair of the Jury; Immo Fritsche (Leipzig University) – deputy chair of the Jury; Bernd Büchner (IFW Dresden); Paweł Idziak (Jagiellonian University); Maria Mittag (University of Jena); Marek Samoć (Wrocław University of Technology).

## Copernicus Award winners

| Year | Name | Institution |
| - | - | - |
| 2022 | Sascha Feuchert | University of Giessen |
| 2022 | Krystyna Radziszewska | University of Łódź |
| 2020 | Stefan Dziembowski | Warsaw University |
| 2020 | Sebastian Faust | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| 2018 | Stefan Anker | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 2018 | Piotr Ponikowski | Wrocław Medical University |
| 2016 | Agnieszka Chacińska | University of Warsaw |
| 2016 | Peter Rehling | University of Göttingen |
| 2014 | Marek Żukowski | University of Gdańsk |
| 2014 | Harald Weinfurter | TU Wien |
| 2012 | Jacek Błażewicz | Poznań University of Technology |
| 2012 | Erwin Pesch | University of Siegen |
| 2010 | Alfred Forchel | University of Würzburg |
| 2010 | Jan Misiewicz | Wrocław University of Technology |
| 2008 | Andrzej Sobolewski | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| 2008 | Wolfgang Domcke | Technical University of Munich |
| 2006 | Barbara Malinowska | University of Warsaw |
| 2006 | Eberhard Schlicker | University of Bonn |
