Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz receives prestigious Humboldt award

The School is delighted to share that Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This outstanding honour is conferred to internationally recognised researchers in recognition of their entire academic record to date.

Professor Fernández-Götz was nominated for the award by Professor Dr Alexandra W. Busch, director of the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA). The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presents approximately 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards annually to internationally renowned academics from abroad in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in research. The award is named for German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In addition to receiving personal award money in the amount of EUR 60,000, award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation with specialist colleagues in Germany.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors distinguished international scientists and scholars irrespectively of their academic discipline or nationality and maintains an international network of academic cooperation and trust. The research awards have been a central pillar of the Foundation’s sponsorship activities since 1972. Numerous prize winners were later awarded a Nobel Prize. The Humboldt Foundation is delighted to be able to count Professor Fernández-Götz among the Humboldt Network.