Mar 24, 2016
The most important German prize for Young Academics has been awarded to two TU Dresden researchers
Two TU Dresden researchers will receive the most important prize for young academics in Germany. The historian Dr. Christoph Lundgreen and the computer scientist Dr. Markus Krötzsch will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Each prize is valued with 20.000 Euro and will be awarded in Berlin on 18th May 2016. The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize is named after the nuclear physicist and former DFG President, and has been awarded since 1971 to early career researchers in recognition of their outstanding achievements. It is considered the most important prize for young academics in Germany. 134 scientists from all disciplines have been nominated for this year’s prize and ten will be honoured with the award.
Dr. Christoph Lundgreen, Chair of Ancient History
Already during his studies Christoph Lundgreen pursued two subject areas; history and law. This is substantially reflected in his research. In his PhD dissertation regarding the „Regelkonflikte in der Römischen Republik“ (“Rules in Conflict in the in the Roman Republic”) Lundgreen integrates considerations of legal theory as well as political sciences and sociology. Thus, he was able to derive innovative aspects for the political culture of the Roman Republic. The concept of the rule, extended by its inversion - the conflicting rule - is not only conceptually redefined, but the rule/violation itself becomes a historical kaleidoscope, through which Lundgreen analyses the order of the Roman Republic and the communication between the socio-political institutions.'
https://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/philosophische_fakultaet/ig/age/mitarbeiter/Lundgreen
Markus Krötzsch, International Center for Computational Logic
Knowledge representation is the machine-readable representation of human knowledge, which permits an intelligent, automatic knowledge processing by computers. This basic technology enables an intelligent handling of large and complex data in numerous areas of application. Mark Krötzsch has provided important research contributions, among others as the Emmy Neother junior research group leader at TU Dresden in the area of knowledge representation. He has created Wikidata, a “Wikipedia of Data”, which provides Wikipedia editions in all languages with data, which was already visible in millions of articles. So with the help of the “semantic” Wiki, developed by Krötzsch, you are now for example able to find an answer to the question, in which of the world’s largest cities a woman is serving as mayor.
https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Markus_Kroetzsch
Further information about the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize is available here:
https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibnitz-preis/
Media inquiries:
Dr. Christoph Lundgreen
Tel.: +49 (0) 351 463-35823 (Sekretariat)