March 14, 2026, Berlin
2025 Einstein Foundation Award Ceremony
On Albert Einstein's birthday, the Einstein Foundation bestowed the Einstein Foundation Award For Promoting Quality in Research in its three categories for the fifth time at the Bode-Museum Berlin.
Winners, jury members, and foundation leadership shared why the award is truly unique. Watch the short interviews!
WELCOME
- Martin Rennert, Chair of the Executive Board, Einstein Foundation Berlin
- Bernhard Weisser, Director of the Numismatic Collection of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
ADDRESSES
- Stefan Evers, Mayor and Senator for Finance of the State of Berlin
- Ina Czyborra, Senator for Higher Education and Research, Health and Long-Term Care of the State of Berlin
KEYNOTE
- Neil MacGregor, Former Director of the National Gallery and the British Museum London, Founding Director of Humboldt Forum Berlin, Advisor to the CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Louvre Museum, Paris
INTRODUCTION AWARD CEREMONY
- 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
- Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, President of the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award Jury
THE AWARDS WERE PRESENTED BY
- Christopher Baum, Chief Translational Research Officer at Charité, Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
- Ina Czyborra, Senator for Higher Education and Research, Health, and Long-Term Care of the State of Berlin
- Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, President of the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award Jury

THE WINNERS OF THE 2025 AWARDS
- Individual Award: Simine Vazire, Australia
- Institutional Award: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative, Brazil
- Early Career Award: Erring Rigorously (Maximilian Sprang), Germany
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