Awards and Honors

Below is an overview of the awards and honors received by researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Virology.

Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger der LCI Summer School 2025: Maisha Adiba (LIV), Jędrzej Mazur (LIV), Moumita Sengupta (BNITM) und Mia Le (BNITM & LIV)

Preiträgerinnes des Posterpreises am LIV Scientific Retreat 2025

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Preisträgerinnen der LIV Retreat Best Talks 2025

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Awards and Honors from External Organisations

Else-Kröner Memorial Scholarship 2025

Name of the awardee: Dr. Britta Zecher (Virus Immunology)
Organisation: Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation

Journal of General Virology Poster Prize 2025
34th Annual GfV Meeting, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Charlotte Flory(Systems Arbovirology)
Organisation: German Society for Virology (GfV)

Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Talk Award 2025
31st International Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus, Flaviviruses and Related Viruses, Singapur

Name of the awardee: Dr. Sreejith Rajasekharan(Systems Arbovirology)
Organisation: National University of Singapore (NUS)

Award “Fiorenzo Mazzi” for Best Master Thesis in Crystallography 2025

Name of the awardee: Gabriele Diana(Integrative Virology)
Organisation: AIC - Italian Crystallography Association

Award for PhD Dissertation 2025
Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Dr. Rene Rosch (Structural Cell Biology of Viruses)
Organisation: Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg

First Prize for Speed Talk
LCI Summer School 2025, Plön

Name of the awardee: Maisha Adiba(Genomic of Retroviral Infections)
Organisation: Leibniz Centre of Infection

2nd Place – Best Talk
LCI Summer School 2025, Plön

Name of the awardee: Mia Le(Viral Systems Modeling)
Organisation: Leibniz Centre of Infection

Best Poster Award
LCI Summer School 2025, Plön

Name of the awardee: Jędrzej Mazur (Structural Cell Biology of Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Centre of Infection

Poster Award
4th CSSB International Symposium ‘Mechanisms of Infection: From Structure to Translation’ 2025

Name of the awardee: Yuliia Mironova(Structural Cell Biology of Viruses)
Organisation: Centre for Structural and Systems Biology

Poster Award
RTG2771 symposium “International Symposium Cell and Structural Biology of Host Pathogen Interaction” 2025

Name of the awardee: Henriette Ebel(Structural Cell Biology of Viruses)
Organisation: Research Training Group 2771 Humans and Microbes

Nominations

Nomination for Leibniz Dissertation Award 2025

Name of the nominee: Dr. Thomas Mulvaney(Integrative Virology)
Organisation: Leibniz Association

Ingeborg-Gross Prize 2024

Name of the awardee: Jule Alina Russow(Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Freundes- & Förderverein Chemie (Friends’ and Supporters’ Association of Chemistry)

Dr. Martini Prize 2024 (2. Place)

Name of the awardee: Dr. Britta Zecher (Virus Immunology)
Organisation: Paul-Martini Foundation

Best Poster Award
LCI Summer School 2024, Schneverdingen

Name of awardee: Luca Genz(Integrative Virologie)
Organisation: Leibniz Centre of Infection

Robert-Koch Award for Early-Career Scientists 2023

Name of the awardee: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder (Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Ruhr University Bochum

Loeffler-Frosch Prize 2023

Name of the awardee: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder (Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Ruhr University Bochum

Jürgen-Wehland Prize 2023

Name of the awardee: Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder (Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)

Best Poster Award 2023
3rd Fall Meeting of the German Society of Mass Spectrometry (DGMS) Young Scientists, Hünfeld

Name of the awardee: Stefan Pfister (Systems Arbovirology)
Organisation: German Society for Mass Spectrometry

Best Poster Award 2023
LCI Summer School 2023

Name of the awardee: Stefan Pfister (Systems Arbovirology)
Organisation: Leibniz Centre of Infection

Travel Grants

EMBO Travel Grant
EMBO Workshop „The Mobile Genome: Genetic and Physiological Impacts of Transposable Elements“ 2025, Heidelberg

Name of the awardee: Maisha Adiba (Genomics of Retroviral Infections)
Organisation: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

DAAD Kongressreiseprogramm – Travel Grant 2025

Name of the awardee: Janina Conradi(Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

LIV-Awards

At LIV, we recognize outstanding achievements by our scientists. Each year, we present the “Best Postdoc Author Award” and the “PhD Best Author Award” to postdoctoral researchers and doctoral candidates for the most outstanding scientific publication.

As part of our annual LIV Scientific Retreat, awards are also given for the best oral presentations and poster presentations.

LIV Postdoc Best Author Award 2025

Name of the awardee: Vojtěch Pražák (Structural Cell Biology of Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

LIV PhD Best Author Award 2025

Name of the awardee: Yingqi Deng (Virus-Host-Interaction)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Best Talk Award
LIV Scientific Retreat 2025, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Luca Genz(Integrative Virology)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Best Talk Award
LIV Scientific Retreat 2025, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Jule Alina Russow(Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Best Poster Award
LIV Scientific Retreat 2025, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Hendrik Jahnz(Genomic of Retroviral Infections)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Poster Award
LIV Scientific Retreat 2025, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Cedric Manhke(Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Poster Award
LIV Scientific Retreat 2025, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Laura Staliunaite (Virus-Host-Interaction)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Mobility Grant 2025

Name of the awardee: Laura Staliunaite (Virus-Host-Interaction)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

LIV PhD Award 2024

Name of the awardee: Enrico Caragliano (Virus-Host-Interaction)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

LIV Postdoc Best Author Award 2024

Name of the awardee: Guendalina Marini (Integrative Virology)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

LIV PhD Best Author Award 2024

Name of the awardee: Konstantin v. Stromberg (Viral Transformation)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Best Oral Presentation 2024
LIV Scientific Retreat, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Dr. Andrea Pirosu (Virus Immunology)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Poster Award 2024
LIV Scientific Retreat, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Jule Alina Russow (Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology

Poster Award 2024
LIV Scientific Retreat, Hamburg

Name of the awardee: Cedric Manhke (Emerging Viruses)
Organisation: Leibniz Institute of Virology