NYU Chemistry Professor Alexej Jerschow was selected to be the inaugural receipient of the Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award, which was established to "honour researchers who have shaped their field even beyond their immediate research area and who have furthermore contributed to promoting diversity in the STEM domain." Alexej will collaborate with physicist Dmitry Budker from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the award will be presented to him at a formal ceremony held on 28 June 2023 as part of the Humboldt Foundation’s Annual Meeting in Berlin. Congratulations to Alexej!
For more information, click here to read the Humboldt Foundation press release.