Max Planck Society
Association of German research institutes
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| 2024 | Laura Waller from University of California, Berkeley wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Computational microscopy |
| 2024 | Geordie Williamson from University of Sydney wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award in Mathematics |
| 2024 | Torsten Hoefler from ETH Zurich wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing with applications in Climate Sciences |
| February 2024 | The Max Planck Society terminated the employment of Lebanese-Australian professor Ghassan Hage from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, citing controversial social media posts about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which sparked widespread academic criticism and support for Hage from international scholarly organizations. |
| 2023 | Ferenc Krausz wins the Nobel Prize in Physics as a member of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2023 | Kandice Tanner from National Cancer Institute wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for research on biophysics of metastatic cancer spread |
| 2023 | Amy Buck from University of Edinburgh wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for research on inter-species RNA communication |
| 2023 | Rotem Sorek from Weizmann Institute of Science wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for research on bacterial defense mechanisms against viruses |
| 2022 | Svante Pääbo wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine as a member of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2022 | Wim Decock from Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve and Liege wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Social Sciences |
| 2022 | Margaret Roberts from UCSD wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for research on censorship and disinformation |
| 2022 | Vanessa Ogle from Yale University wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Social Sciences |
| 2021 | Benjamin List wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Klaus Hasselmann wins the Nobel Prize in Physics as members of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2021 | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero from MIT wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for research in Quantum Materials |
| 2021 | Sumit Gulwani from Microsoft wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for AI-assisted Programming |
| 2021 | Anastassia Alexandrova from UCLA wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Theoretical Chemistry |
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Reinhard Genzel wins the Nobel Prize in Physics as members of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2020 | The Nature Index ranked Max Planck Institutes third worldwide in research published in Nature journals. |
| 2020 | Roberto Bonasio from University of Pennsylvania wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award in Life Sciences |
| 2020 | Luciano Marraffini from Rockefeller University wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Life Sciences |
| 2019 | Establishment of Max Planck Law as a network, bringing together multiple Max Planck Institutes engaged in legal research. |
| 2019 | Ufuk Akcigit from University of Chicago wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award in Macroeconomics |
| 2019 | Elliot Tucker-Drob from University of Texas at Austin wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Personality and Developmental Psychology |
| 2018 | The award was succeeded by the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, which annually recognizes an internationally renowned mid-career researcher from outside Germany interested in a research residency in Germany. |
| 2018 | Robert Wood from Harvard University wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for research in Soft Robotics |
| 2018 | The Max Planck Society had a budget of approximately €1.8 billion. |
| 2018 | Catherine Heymans from University of Edinburgh wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award for research on Dark Energy |
| 2018 | Sam Payne from University of Texas at Austin wins the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in Tropical Geometry |
| 2017 | The last traditional Max Planck Research Award was presented before the award format changed. |
| 2016 | The Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean was established at Harvard University, marking the latest Max Planck Research Center. |
| 2016 | Bonnie Bassler from Princeton University and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology received recognition for work on sensory perception of organisms. |
| 2015 | Bryan Stanley Turner from City University of New York and Hans Joas from Humboldt University of Berlin were acknowledged for research on religion and modernity, exploring secularisation and social and religious pluralism. |
| 2014 | Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena was renamed to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. |
| 2014 | Stefan W. Hell wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a member of the Max-Planck-Society |
| 2014 | Robert J. Schoelkopf from Yale University and Jörg Wrachtrup from University of Stuttgart were recognized for advances in quantum nanoscience. |
| June 2014 | Martin Stratmann became President of the Max Planck Society, taking leadership of the organization and its administrative headquarters in Munich. |
| 2013 | Chris Field from Carnegie Institution for Science & Stanford University and researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry were noted for research on the influence of climate change on ecosystems. |
| 2012 | A controversy emerged regarding PhD student compensation, with only 2,000 out of 5,300 PhD students having employment contracts. The issue of wage dumping for young scientists was discussed during the passing of the 'Wissenschaftsfreiheitsgesetz' (Scientific Freedom Law) in the German Parliament. |
| 2012 | Controversy arose over PhD student employment contracts, with only 2,000 out of 5,300 students receiving employment contracts at the 80 Max Planck Institutes. |
| 2012 | Columbia University Law School and Martin Hellwig from the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods were acknowledged for work on regulating international financial markets. |
| 2011 | The Max Planck Society issued a statement defending its PhD student compensation model, arguing that a PhD is an apprenticeship and not a full professional job. |
| 2011 | Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University and Bernhard Schölkopf from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems were recognized for research in intelligent systems. |
| 2010 | New York University College of Dentistry and Michael Tomasello from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology were acknowledged for research in evolution. |
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