Prizes & Awards

Prizes for students of the Centre

  • Dr. Ulrike Ober
    2012, Award of the Foundation Council of the Georg-August-University Göttingen in the category "Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists". The award-winning publication was "Using Whole-Genome Sequence Data to Predict Quantitative Trait Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster".
  • Dr. Jingky Lozano
    2010, First Prize Young statisticians`Competition by Belgian Statistical Society for the presentation of "A generalized method for analyzing genetic main effects and epistasis among candidate genes using parent-offspring trios"
  • Dr. Frank Konietschke
    2010, Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) for an outstanding doctoral thesis
    2009, Hoeffding Award for his presentation during the workshop "Nonparametric Statistics: Refined, Redefined, and Renewed"
  • Dr. Carola Werner
    2007, Gustav-Adolph Lienert Award for Excellent Dissertation 2006 by The International Biometric Society
    2006, Academic prize for Excellent Dissertation by Commerzbank-Stiftung
  • Dr. Jan Bulla
    2006, Academic prize for an excellent dissertation by Commerzbank-Stiftung
  • Dr. Karthinathan Thangavelu, MPhil.
    2004, 'Best Young Research Paper Award' for joint work with E. Brunner 'Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney test for stratified samples and Efron's paradox dice' by International Conference on the 'FUTURE OF STATISTICAL THEORY, PRACTICE AND EDUCATION' (American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Indian Statistical Association)
  • Dr. Guido Skipka
    2004, Gustav Adolph Lienert Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis by The International Biometric Society

Prizes for members of the Centre

  • PD Dr. Antonia Zapf
    2016, Habilitation Award of the Medical Centre of the University of Göttingen for her research on "Methods for the evaluation and selection of diagnostic tests"
  • Dr. Nadja Klein
    2015, Wolfgang-Wetzel-Award of the German Statistical Society for her paper "Bayesian Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape for Zero-Inflated and Overdispersed Count Data" (Journal of the American Statistical Association)
    2014, Award for the best dissertations 2014 of the Universitätsbund Göttingen for her dissertation "Bayesian Structured Additive Distributional Regression"
  • Prof. Dr. Helmut Herwartz
    2013, "Aareal Award of Excellence in Real Estate Research" of the Aareal Bank Group for his outstanding work in real estate economics research on "On housing booms and credit market conditions: A state space model". This price was awarded for a joint work with Dr. Fang Xu of the University of Reading.
  • Prof. Dr. Tim Friede
    2012, Paul-Martini-Preis, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS) e.V. A joint work with Dr. Heinz Schmidli (Novartis Pharma AG, Basel). Publication: Blinded sample size reestimation with count data: Methods and applications in multiple sclerosis, Statistics in Medicine 29: 1145-1156.
  • Prof. Dr. Heike Bickeböller
    2012, Leadership Award der International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
  • Dr. Christoph Scherber
    2012, Faculty of 1000 Nature paper selected for the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. Paper: Stevnbak, Scherber et al. (2012) Interactions between above- and belowground organisms modified in climate change experiments. Nature Climate Change 2, 805-808.
    2011, Award of the Foundation Council of the Georg-August-University Göttingen in the category "Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists". The award-winning paper: Scherber C et al. (2010) Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment. Nature 468, 553-556.
  • Prof. Dr. Margarete Boos
    2010/2011, Innovation Prize Human Resources, CeBit - Initiative Mittelstand & Landkreis Göttingen, a joint project with with Malamut TeamCatalyst (university start-up)
  • Prof. Dr. Walter Zucchini
    2008, "Herbert Sichel Medaille" of the South African Statistical Association
  • Prof. Dr. Oliver Mußhoff
    2007, "Heisenberg Scholarship" for outstanding research achievements, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  • Dr. Christoph Scherber
    2007, "Horst Wiehe Award 2007" of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland for his Ph.D.
    Thesis: "Invertebrate herbivory, plant diversity and ecosystem processes in experimental grassland"
  • Prof. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D.
    2006, World Bank "Green Award" for "leadership and commitment in promoting environmental sustainability in World Bank projects
  • Dr. Christoph Scherber
    2005, "Heureka" Award for Science Journalism of Sanofi-Aventis. Publication: Bartfeld, S., Dries, C., Gutschenreiter, A., Scherber, C.: online feature about "Molecular Therapies" in the journal www.sciencegarden.de
  • Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer
    2004, Prize of the GEWISOLA (Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus) for an "Outstanding Scientific Work of a Young Scientist"
  • Prof. Dr. Oliver Mußhoff
    2004, Prize of the GEWISOLA for an "Outstanding Scientific Work of a Young Scientist" (for doctoral thesis), Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaus e.V. (GeWiSoLa)
    2003, "Humboldt-Award" for an outstanding doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Sperlich
    2003, Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize 2000-2002
  • Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer
    2002, EAAE Young Scientists Prize' for Best publication of young researcher in European Review of Agricultural Economics (2001, 28) by European Association of Agricultural Economists
  • Prof. Dr. Manfred Denker
    2002, Humboldt Price of the Polish Foundation of Science (FNP) (Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej)
    1995, Senior Scientist Award of the Japanese Society of Promotion of Sciences (JSPS)