title: Copernicus Award
text: # Copernicus Award
  
  The Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award (also known as Copernicus Award) is a biannual science award conferred by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Foundation for Polish Science "to the individuals most active in Polish-German scientific cooperation who have made exceptional research achievements as a result of that cooperation." The award was established in 2006 and is named after Renaissance astronomer and polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). It carries a cash prize of €200,000 shared equally by two winners, one from Germany and one from Poland. In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must have at least a doctoral degree and work in Polish or German scientific institutions.
  
  Permanent members of the Jury of the Copernicus Award include: Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw) – chair of the Jury; Immo Fritsche (Leipzig University) – deputy chair of the Jury; Bernd Büchner (IFW Dresden); Paweł Idziak (Jagiellonian University); Maria Mittag (University of Jena); Marek Samoć (Wrocław University of Technology).
  
  ## Copernicus Award winners
  
  | Year | Name | Institution |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2022 | Sascha Feuchert | University of Giessen |
  | 2022 | Krystyna Radziszewska | University of Łódź |
  | 2020 | Stefan Dziembowski | Warsaw University |
  | 2020 | Sebastian Faust | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
  | 2018 | Stefan Anker | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
  | 2018 | Piotr Ponikowski | Wrocław Medical University |
  | 2016 | Agnieszka Chacińska | University of Warsaw |
  | 2016 | Peter Rehling | University of Göttingen |
  | 2014 | Marek Żukowski | University of Gdańsk |
  | 2014 | Harald Weinfurter | TU Wien |
  | 2012 | Jacek Błażewicz | Poznań University of Technology |
  | 2012 | Erwin Pesch | University of Siegen |
  | 2010 | Alfred Forchel | University of Würzburg |
  | 2010 | Jan Misiewicz | Wrocław University of Technology |
  | 2008 | Andrzej Sobolewski | Polish Academy of Sciences |
  | 2008 | Wolfgang Domcke | Technical University of Munich |
  | 2006 | Barbara Malinowska | University of Warsaw |
  | 2006 | Eberhard Schlicker | University of Bonn |
  