March 14, 2025, Berlin

2024 Einstein Foundation Award Ceremony

On Albert Einstein's birthday, the Einstein Foundation bestowed the 2024 Einstein Foundation Award For Promoting Quality in Research in its three categories for the fourth time at the Bode-Museum Berlin.

WELCOME

  • Martin Rennert, Chair of the Executive Board, Einstein Foundation Berlin
  • Herrmann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

OPENING REMARKS

  • Kai Wegner, Governing Mayor of Berlin

CEREMONIAL LECTURE

  • Robbert Dijkgraaf, former Minister of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands

VIDEO MESSAGE

  • Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, President of the 2024 award jury 

LAUDATORS 

  • Ulrich Dirnagl, Secretary of the Einstein Foundation Award and founding director of the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
  • Dorothy Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, former jury member and nominator of PubPeer (video)
  • Csaba Szabo, Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and nominator of Elisabeth Bik (video)

THE AWARDS WERE PRESENTED BY

  • Ulrich Dirnagl, Secretary of the Einstein Foundation Award
  • Peter-André Alt, Spokesman of the Management Board of the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft and Thorsten Wilhelmy, Managing Director of the Einstein Foundation Berlin
  • Ina Czyborra, Senator for Higher Education and Research, Health, and Long-Term Care of the State of Berlin

THE WINNERS OF THE 2024 AWARDS

  • Individual Award: Elisabeth Bik, Netherlands/USA
  • Institutional Award: PubPeer (Brandon Stell & Boris Barbour), USA
  • Early Career Award: Pixel Quality (Helena Jambor & Christoph Schmied), Switzerland/Germany

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