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Rankings, Awards …

Rankings, Awards …. Success in the Excellence Initiative. The goal of the Excellence Initiative is to to raise the profile of top performers in the academic and research community by means of three lines of funding:

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Rankings, Awards …

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  1. Rankings, Awards …

  2. Success in the Excellence Initiative The goal of the Excellence Initiative is to to raise the profile of top performers in the academic and research community by means of three lines of funding: The University of Stuttgart has been successful in two of the Excellence Initiative’s three lines of funding. Funding has been granted to: • Strategies for the future • Excellence clusters • Graduate Schools • The “Simulation Technology” Excellence Cluster • The “Advanced Manufacturing Engineering” Graduate School 2010/11 application in all three lines of funding

  3. Top Places in Rankings >>> • Most successful German university in the 6th EU Framework Program, particularly in the fields of “Information Society Technologies”, “Sustainable Development”, “Nanotechnologies, Multifunctional Materials and New Production Processes” and “Scientific Support to Policies” • Total amount of third-party funding (Federal Statistical Office 2006): 3rd place in Germany • Third-party funding per professor (Federal Statistical Office 2006): 1st place in Germany • 4th place in CHE-Research Ranking 2007 (Engineering place 1) • One of the top grant recipients in the university sector in the DFG’s grant ranking 2009 (Engineering place 4, water research place 1)

  4. <<< Top Places in Rankings • Chemistry: Excellence Group in CHE Excellence Ranking 2007 and in the top group in the Wissenschaftsrat‘s Rating 2007 • Technical Biology: In the top group in CHE University Ranking 2009 • In the top 3 for a wide range of Engineering study programs (ranked by CHE, Spiegel, Focus 2007) • International appeal of research in Stuttgart in the field of engineering: research visits by international scholarship holders and award- winners of the Humboldt Foundation (2009): 2nd place in Germany

  5. Eminent Awards >>> Stuttgart researchers regularly win eminent awards and prizes. For instance … • Nobel Prize for Physics 1985: Prof. Klaus von Klitzing • DFG’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2004, State Teaching Prize 2007: Prof. Frank Allgöwer • Hertha-Sponer-Prize 2010 of Deutsche Physikalische Gesellsch.: Dr. Na Liu • Körber European Science Award 1999: Prof. Bernd-Helmut Kröplin • Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize 2008: Prof. Hans-Joachim Werner Prof. Klaus von Klitzing Prof. Frank Allgöwer Dr. Na Liu Prof. Bernd-Helmut Kröplin Prof. Hans-Joachim Werner

  6. Eminent Awards >>> • José Entrecanales Ibarra Prize 2008, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 2002: Prof. Jörg Schlaich • State Research Prize 2009: Prof. Wolfram Pyta • State Research Prize 2007: Prof. Dieter Wolf • State Research Prize2003: Prof. Martin Dressel • Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring 2009: Prof. em. Siegfried Wagner Prof. Jörg Schlaich Prof. Wolfram Pyta Prof. DieterWolf Prof. Martin Dressel Prof. SiegfriedWagner

  7. Eminent Awards >>> • IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Grant 2009 and IBM Faculty Award 2008: Prof. Frank Leymann • IBM Faculty Award 2009: Prof. Bernhard Mitschang • IEEE VGTC Technical Achievement Award for Visualisation 2007: Prof. Thomas Ertl • Walter Schottky Prize 2007: Dr. Fedor Jelezko • Berblinger Prize 2006 u.1996: Prof. Rudolf Voith-Nitschmann Prof. Frank Leymann Prof. Bernhard Mitschang Prof. Thomas Ertl Dr. Fedor Jelezko Prof. RudolfVoith-Nitschmann

  8. <<< Eminent Awards The University of Stuttgart was also very pleased to hear of the extraordinary success of its alumnus… • Nobel Chemistry Laureate 2007: Prof. Gerhard Ertl Prof. Gerhard Ertl

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