Awards to Group Members
"PhD Externships":
One pillar of our scientific training philosophy is to support our PhD students to take 3 months off their home projects and go to world-leading labs abroad. These externships help our students to acquire new skillsets and mindsets, while working on completely different topics that they independently design and propose. This refreshes the air during the PhD years, builds bridges for postdoc applications and collaborations, and is an enjoyable recognition for intellectual commitment and hard work.
- Philipp Mauker: Yasuteru Urano at Uni Tokyo (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship)
- Markus Müller: Evan Miller at UC Berkeley (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship & BaCaTec grant)
- Lukas Zeisel: Andy Myers at Harvard (2023; Otto Bayer fellowship)
- Jan Felber: Ben Cravatt at Scripps (2022)
- Alex Sailer: Dirk Trauner at NYU (2021; DAAD fellowship)
Individual Awards within the group - our "journal cover gallery":
We strongly encourage and support our group members to secure individual funding and prizes. Winning your own funding is an integral step in an academic career, allows you to test your knowledge and ideas against the rigour of the peer review system, and is a prestigious recognition for any CV. We also feel that supporting our group members to win prizes and recognition is a better investment than building a collection of journal vanity covers.
45. Alexander Wiegand
Studienstiftung d.d.V.
PhD Fellowship 2025
44. Jan-Philip Prohaska
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
Kekulé PhD Scholarship 2025
43. Markus Müller
AbbVie Promotionspreis PhD award 2025
42. Julia Brandmeier
LMU Central award for Best MSc Research at LMU 2024
41. Dr. Jan Felber
Studienstiftung Friedrich Hirzebruch Prize for best PhD in natural sciences in Germany, 2024
40. Dr. Martin Reynders
Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2024
39. Julia Brandmeier
PROSA-LMU Abroad Fellowship 2023 (Melbourne, Australia)
38. Lukas Zeisel
Winner, inaugural Merck European Retrosynthesis Competition (solo!) 2023
37. Dr Jan Felber
Winner, Symeres / European MedChem-ChemBio Federation EFMC PhD Prize 2023
36. Dr Li Gao
Roche-EFMC Public Choice Prize for best junior scientist talk at EFMC 2023
35. Dr Li Gao
GDCh's PhD representative to the EuroMedChem conference EFMC 2023
34. Dr Jan Felber
Klaus Tschira KlarText PhD Prize 2023 in Chemistry (film online)
33. Carina Schmitt
Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2023
32. Dr Jan Felber
GDCh Biochemistry PhD award 2023 (+ prize talk at the WiFo Leipzig conference)
31. Lucas Dessen Weissenhorn
FöFoLe Dr. med. scholarship 2023
30. Dr Li Gao
GDCh Medicinal Chemistry PhD prize 2023 (+ prize talk at the FiMC Vienna conference)
29. Dr Martin Reynders
LMU-NYU Cooperation Grant 2023
28. Markus Müller
BaCaTec Exchange Project 2023 (to UC Berkeley, USA)
27. Dr Jan Felber
AbbVie Promotionspreis PhD award 2023
26. Dr Julia Thorn-Seshold
CeNS Investment Award 2022
25. Lukas Zeisel
CeNS Publication Award 2022
24. Markus Müller
Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2022
23. Lukas Zeisel
Otto Bayer Fellowship in Drug Discovery 2022
22. Dr Martin Reynders
CeNS Young Investigator 2021
21. Philipp Mauker
Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2021
20. Elena Fajardo-Ruiz
Stiftung d. d. Wirtschaft Fellowship 2021
19. Jan Felber
CeNS Nano Innovation Award 2021 - Silver Award
18. Dr Martin Reynders
SPP1926 Next Generation Optogenetics Young Investigator Grant 2021
17. Dr Martin Maier
Merck Innovation Cup MedChem Competition Winner 2021
16. Philipp Mauker
Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2021
15. Lukas Zeisel
Römer Prize (MSc) 2020
14. Adrian Müller-Deku
CeNS Publication Award 2020
13. Lukas Zeisel
Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Kekulé PhD Scholarship 2020
12. Benedikt Baumgartner
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellowship 2020
9-11. Lukas Zeisel
Lindau Nobel Meeting Selectee, 2020, 2021 & 2022
8. Alex Sailer
DAAD PhD Exchange scholarship 2021 (NYU, USA)
7. Dr. Julia Thorn-Seshold
Joachim-Herz Add-On Research Fellowship 2020
6. Lena Poczka
FöFoLe & GRK2338 Dr. med. scholarship 2020
5. Jan Felber
Studienstiftung d.d.V. PhD Fellowship 2019
4. Magdalena Scheck
PROSA-LMU Abroad Fellowship 2019 (Biel, Switzerland)
2-3. Dr Julia Thorn-Seshold & Dr Kristina Loy
CiPSMwomen 2019 Funds
1. Jan Felber
Römer Prize (MSc) 2018