Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

(Prof.) Dr. Dana Branzei

Top researcher Dana Branzei has been selected by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Humboldt Professorship 2025. The internationally renowned expert in molecular biology is currently researching the mechanisms of DNA repair at the Research Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, thereby contributing to the fundamental understanding of cancer development and therapy. She is to be appointed to the Research Center One Health Ruhr of the Research Alliance Ruhr at the University of Duisburg-Essen. The top researcher has already received numerous awards, including two prestigious prizes from the European Research Council.

Professor Dr. rer. nat. Marc Levine

Marc Levine is one of the world's leading experts in the field of algebraic geometry. His outstanding and innovative contributions to his field, most recently his theory of algebraic cobordism, have been well received and recognized with numerous awards, including the Wolfgang Paul Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2001. Levine is to become one of the directors of the planned Institute for Algebra at the University of Duisburg-Essen, building on his earlier stays in Essen. With Levine, a breadth of mathematical methods is to be covered there in future that is unique in Germany and would only be found in a few places worldwide.