On 12 November 2025, the Humboldt Preis 2025 was presented in the Lichthof Ost of the main building. Every year, Humboldt-Universit?t honours outstanding academic work by students and early-career researchers with this award.
This year, Tim Stiebert and Lena Haden were each honoured with prize money of 750 euros for their bachelor's dissertations. Lena Haden wrote her bachelor's dissertation entitled "De jüngste dochter, wat de Lena waor: Grammar and semantics of the wat . . . is relative clauses in Low German", Tim Stieber investigated the topic "Guaranteed Lower Eigenvalue Bounds for the Schr?dinger Eigenvalue Problem".
Ben Gerhardt received prize money of 1,500 euros for his master's thesis entitled "Three-Dimensional Architecture and Linearised Mapping of Vibrissa Follicle Afferents".
Julia Stier ("Migratory Imaginaries in the Context of Senegalese Migration to Europe - Mechanisms of (Re)Production and Implications for Migration Processes"), Dustin Kass ("Mechanistic Studies on the Biomimetic Activation of Disoxygen on Non-haem Iron Complexes") and Anna Seidel ("The City in a State of Emergency. Spatial subversions in Lidija Ginzburg, Miron Bia?oszewski and D?evad Karahasan") each received 3,000 euros.
The Sonderpreis for research on Judaism and anti-Semitism went to Robert-Mueller Stahl. For his work "Capturing life. German-Jewish private photography in the 1930s", he received 3,000 euros.
Daniel Kohl and Barbara Hollunder were honouredfor their final theses for the best "Research to Innovation" work. They each received 1000 euros. Daniel Kohl wrote his master's thesis on "Towards Chip-Scale Optical Atomic Clocks utilising Rubidium MEMS Cells". Barbara Hollunderresearched "Brain stimulation as an insight into the architecture and therapeutic potential of the human dysfunctome" in her doctoral thesis.)
Congratulations to all award winners!