Awards ceremony in Berlin

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorships were awarded by the Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka and the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Helmut Schwarz.

Both, Wolf B. Frommer and Jijie Chai were recruited in the frame of CEPLAS. The nomination for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship was carried out in the case of Wolf B. Frommer jointly by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich and by the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in the case of Jijie Chai.