KLS Award for Early Career Postdocs

With the postdoc awards, the priority research area annually honours advanced young scientists in the life sciences from medical and non-medical research at Kiel University who have distinguished themselves with outstanding achievements at one of the institutions associated with KLS.

  • annually, call starts in July,
  • prizes: 2 x 6,000 € (one prize per category),
  •  application will be sorted into one category (medical, non-medical life sciences).

 

Eligibility:

  • Research activities must be focused on medical or non-medical life sciences,
  • application max. 3 years after having obtained the doctoral degree (date of document is determinant,
  • outstanding doctoral thesis,
  • excellent research quality,
  • postdoc must be working in a KLS member institute or clinic.

Awardees 2021

NameGroupCategoryFunding
Dr. Michael RaatzDepartment of Evolutionary Theory(Prof. A. Traulsen), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, PlönMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Lukas PfeiferPlant Glycan Group (Prof. B. Classen), Pharmaceutical InstituteNon-Medical Research

6,000 €

Awardees 2020

NameGroupKategorieUnterstützung
Dr. Elisa RosatiGenetics and Bioinformatics (Prof. A. Franke), Institute for Clinical Molecular BiologyMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Sascha RahnUnit for Degradomics of the Protease Web (Prof. C. Becker-Pauly), Biochemical InstituteMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Malte RühlemannGenetics and Bioinformatics (Prof. A. Franke), Institute for Clinical Molecular BiologyNon-Medical Research6,000 €
 Dr. Joāo BotelhoEvolutionary Ecology and Genetics (Prof. H. Schulenburg), Zoological InstituteNon-Medical Research6,000 €

Awardees 2019

NameGroupCategoryFunding
Dr. Florian TranSystems Immunology (Prof. S. Schreiber / Prof. P. Rosenstiel), Clinic for Internal Medicine I / Institute for Clinical Molecular BiologyMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Hamed RajabiFunctional Morphology and Biomechanics (Prof. S. Gorb), Zoological InstituteNon-Medical Research6,000 €

Awardees 2018

NameGroupCategoryFunding
Dr. Friederike ZunkeMolecular Biology of Cytokines (Prof. S. Rose-John), Biochemical InstituteMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Andrey PravdivtsevBiomedical Imaging (Prof. J. Hövener), Clinic for Radiology and NeuroradiologyNon-Medical Research6,000 €

Awardees 2017

NameGroupCategoryFunding
Dr. Marcus ScheweIon Channels (Prof. T. Baukrowitz), Institute of PhysiologyMedical Research6,000 €
Dr. Camilo BarbosaEvolutionary Ecology and Genetics (Prof. H. Schulenburg), Zoological InstituteNon-Medical Research6,000 €