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Awards received

The department's scientists and students are regularly recognized for their research. Here you will find a selection from the last few years.

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TU-Informatikerin Georgia Chalvatzaki mit Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis ausgezeichnet

2025/10/29

Feierliche Übergabe in der Villa Hügel

Die Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung hat die Informatikerin Prof. Dr. Georgia Chalvatzaki mit dem Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis 2025 ausgezeichnet – einer der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Auszeichnungen in Deutschland. Die 37-Jährige ist seit 2023 Professorin für Interaktive Roboterwahrnehmung und Lernen am Fachbereich Informatik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Dem Auswahlgremium der Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung hatten insgesamt 42 Kandidatenvorschläge aus ganz Deutschland vorgelegen.
Picture: Katrin Binner

Picture: Katrin Binner

A portrait of Athene Young Investigator Dr. Manisha Luthra Agnihotri

2025/09/17

The Athene Young Investigator Programme supports outstanding researchers on their way to professorship

Dr Manisha Luthra Agnihotri, Senior Researcher in Professor Carsten Binnig's research department 'Systemic AI for Decision Support' (SAIDE) and postdoctoral researcher in the Data and AI Systems group at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, has been accepted into the Athene Young Investigator Programme at TU Darmstadt. The programme promotes the scientific independence of outstanding scientists at an early stage of their careers by enabling them to qualify for a professorship by independently leading a junior research group. We had the opportunity to talk to her and ask her a few questions.

2025

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize	Prof. Mira Mezini	Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO)	Significant long-term contribution to the field in research or engineering
Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis	Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki	Krupp-Foundation	Support for young university professors in the natural sciences and engineering with outstanding academic qualifications and a proven track record of excellent research achievements.

2024

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Dr. Hans Messer Stiftungspreis	Prof. Mariami Gachechiladze	Hans und Ria Messer Stiftung (bis 2024 Dr. Hans Messer Stiftung)	Promotion of research and teaching for scientists in the early stages of their careers who have achieved outstanding results
German Pattern Recognition Award	Prof. Justus Thies	The German Association for Pattern Recognition	Outstanding, research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.
ERC Starting Grant	Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki	European Research Council (ERC)	SIREN – Structured Interactive Perception and Learning for Holistic Robotic Embodied Intelligence
ERC Starting Grant	Prof. Justus Thies	European Research Council (ERC)	Learning Digital Humans in Motion
Milner Award	Prof. Iryna Gurevych	The Royal Society	Major contributions to natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence
LOEWE-Top-Professorship	Prof. Carsten Binning	Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – kurz: LOEWE	Data and AI Systems
Eurographics Young Researcher Award 2024	Prof. Justus Thies	European Association for computer graphics	His contributions to computer graphics in the field of markerless motion capture and synthesis
Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship	Prof. Marcus Rohrbach	Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation	Multimodal Reliable AI
ERC Consolidator Grant	Prof. Thomas Schneider	European Research Council (ERC)	PRIVTOOLS – Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy
Election to the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment	Prof. Carsten Binnig	VLDB Endowment	Particular commitment to the Foundation's objectives through their previous work
AAAI Fellow	Prof. Kristian Kersting	Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)	Significant contributions to the foundations and applications of statistical relational AI and neurosymbolic learning.

2023

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
German Pattern Recognition Award	Prof. Dr. Anna Rohrbach	The German Association for Pattern Recognition	Outstanding, research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.
Full Member of acatech	Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi	acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering	Recognition of his scientific achievements
LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur	Prof. Dr. Mira Mezini	Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – kurz: LOEWE	InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)	Association of outstanding scientists
Best-Performer at the European Robotics Hackathon	Rettungsrobotik-Team Hector, SIM Group	EnRicH- The European Robotics Hackathon	Radiation Mapping

2022

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
ERC Consolidator Grant	Prof. Dr. Sebastian Faust	European Research Council (ERC)	„CRYPTOLAYER – Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols“
ERC Advanced Grant	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych	European Research Council (ERC)	InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in Cross-Document Context
ERC Advanced Grant	Prof. Dr. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi	European Research Council (ERC)	Project “HYDRANOS”
EIC Transition Grant	Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D.	European Innovation Council (EIC)	Visual Robot Programming
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)	Association of outstanding scientists

2021

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
2nd place at the 8th German IT Security Awards	Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider, Daniel Kales, Christian Rechberger, Matthias Senker and Christian Weinert	Foundation “Horst Görtz-Stiftung”	Project “ContactGuard”: Mobile privacy-preserving contact discovery
ERC Proof of Concept Grant	Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D.	European Research Council (ERC)	Project „AssemblySkills“
LOEWE-Spitzen-Professur	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych	Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz – LOEWE	Ubiquitous knowledge processing
ACM Distinguished Member	Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing

2020

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Appointment as a Fellow of ACL	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)	Outstanding work in the field of natural language processing and machine learning.
ERC Consolidator Grant	Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.	European Research Council (ERC)	Project “RED – Robust, Explainable Deep Networks in Computer Vision”
ERC Starting Grant	Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider	European Research Council (ERC)	Project „PSOTI“
Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020	Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D. and his co-autores Deqing Sun and Michael J. Black	IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee at each year’s CVPR	„Secrets of Optical Flow Estimation and Their Principles“, 2010 (opens in new tab)
Google Women Techmakers Scholarship for Computer Science	Dr. Kristina Hostáková	Googles Women Techmakers program	Several essays discussing the question of how to be a strong female leader and encouraging women to pursue a career in computer science
Copernicus-Award	Prof. Sebastian Faust, Ph.D. and Stefan Dziembowski	German Research Foundation (DFG) and Foundation for Polish Science	Research in cryptography and IT-security
Appointment into Selection Committee of the ERC Scientific Council	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini	European Research Council (ERC)	Continuance and renewal of activities of the Scientific Council regarding „Horizon Europe“, the next research and innovation program of the EU

2019

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award	Dr. Felix Günther	ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)	Dissertation „Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols“
Weizenbaum-Award	Philipp Imperatori	Forum of Computer Scientists and IT Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF)	Bachelor-Thesis „Verschlüsselungspolitik der USA – Eine vergleichende Analyse der historischen Entwicklung“
Member in Quadriga for the National Pact of Cybersecurityt	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini	Federal Ministry of the Interior	Development and presentation of a macrosocial declaration for cybersecurity
Honorary doctorate	Prof. Dr. Dr. eh. Dieter W. Fellner	University of Rostock	Honorary doctorate of engineering (Dr.-Ing. eh.)
German AI-Award	Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting	Business journal „BILANZ“	Development of new methods for machine learning and artificial intelligence
ERC Starting Grant	Prof. Dr. Thomas Schneider	European Research Council (ERC)	Project „PSOTI“ (Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet)
Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Foundation-Award and European IT-Security-Award	Dr. Felix Günther	Foundation “DATEV-Stiftung Zukunft” and European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)	Dissertation „Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols“
Appointment as a Fellow of the EurAI	Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting	European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)	Continued contribution of excellent research in the field of artificial intelligence
Funding LOEWE-Centre “emergenCITY”	Prof. Dr. Matthias Hollick	Hessian Ministry of Science	Scientic centre coordination
Appointment into Panel of Eminent Persons of the Cyber Security Cluster	Prof. Dr. Matthias Hollick	Cyber Security Cluster Bonn e.V.	Recommendations in cybersecurity for politics and economics
1. place in „Hack the News Datathon“	Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych with her team	Data Science Society	Recognition of propaganda in news papers by means of artificial intelligence
ERC Proof of Concept Grant	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini	European Research Council (ERC)	REScala – A Programming Platform for Reactive Data-intensive Applications

2018

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Outstanding Contributions Award	Prof. Dr. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi	ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC)	For dedicated research, teaching and management in the security community and pioneering contributions for content protection, mobile security and Hardware-assisted security
APEX Award of Excellence	Prof. D. Johannes Buchmann	IEEE Computer Society	Award for edition of IEEE Security & Privacy concerning Postquantum Cryptography
IEEE Trustcom 2018 Best Paper Award	Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser, Sheikh Mahbub Habib and Nikolaos Alexopoulos	IEEE Computer Society	„Trust4App: Automating Trustworthiness Assessment of Mobile Applications“
Election in GDNÄ-board	Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchmann	Society “Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte e. V. (GDNÄ)”	Professional represantation in the field of computer science/ mathematics
Appointment into Fellow of the IEEE	Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D.	IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)	For contributions to motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles
Funding „EXIST-Forschungstransfer"	Prof. Dr. Oskar von Stryk and his team Stefan Kohlbrecher, Dorian Scholz and Alberto Romay	Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy	Funding of the team “Energy Robotics” for the development of autonomous mobile robot applications
Uni-DAS Science Award	Dr. Marius Cordts	Group Uni-DAS e.V.	Dissertation "Understanding Cityscapes: Efficient Urban Semantic Scene Understanding“
Appointment into Fellow of the society “Gesellschaft für Informatik”	Prof. Dr. Ralf Steinmetz	Society “Gesellschaft für Informatik”	Contribution to research of the synchronisation of multimedia data and adaptive communication systems
Distinguished Service Award	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bibel	European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)	Professional and organizational earnings in establishment of artificial intelligence (AI)
Google Faculty Research Award	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini	Google	Project „Identifying Problematic Children Apps“

2017

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Konrad-Zuse-Medaille	Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchmann	Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)	Recognition of his contributions to computer science
ARGOS Challenge	German-austrian„Argonauts“-Team \| Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group und Taurob GmbH, Wien	Total	Intelligent, autonomous surface robots on oil and gas platforms

2016

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Appointment into GI-Junior-Fellow (opens in new tab)	Dr. Juliane Krämer	Society “Gesellschaft für Informatik”	Mediation of the importance of computer science and relevance of IT and data security
GFFT Honorary membership for lifetime achievement	Prof. Dr. Johannes Buchmann	Society “Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers e.V. (GFFT)”	Honoring of lifetime achievement in the field of IT security and cryptography

2015

Award	Award Winner	Awarded by	Topic
Oracle Research Collaboration Award	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mira Mezini and Eric Bodden	Oracle	“FlowTwist: Efficient Context-sensitive Inside-out Taint Analysis for Large Codebases”
ERC Starting Grant	Prof. Jan Peters, Ph.D.	European Research Council (ERC)	SKILLS4ROBOTS – Policy Learning of Motor Skills for Humanoid Robots