 | Date | Award | Name | |
 | 2012 |
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 | 15 May | Eurographics Distinguished Career Award 2012 | Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel |  |
 | 2011 |
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 | 1 Jul | 2011 SIGMOD Contributions Award | Gerhard Weikum |  |
 | 2010 |
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 | 4 Jun | Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
| 28 Dec | Member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering | Gerhard Weikum |  |
 | 22 Nov | GDD-Wissenschaftspreis | Sebastian Gerling |  |
| 3 Nov | CIKM Best Paper Award | Gerard de Melo |  |
 | 27 Oct | Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship in Randomized Algorithms | Carola Winzen |  |
| 20 Oct | HUPO Young Gun Award | Mario Albrecht |  |
 | 20 Oct | GI Fellow | Gerhard Weikum |  |
| 17 Sep | IT-Community Award | Jörg Herrmann+IST Group |  |
 | 29 Jan | Günter-Hotz-Medaille | Fabian Müller |  |
| 4 Jan | Google Research Award | Gerhard Weikum |  |
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| 16 Jun | Otto-Hahn-Medaille | Thomas Schulz, Fabian Suchanek |  |
 | 6 Mar | GI DBIS Dissertationspreis | Sebastian Michel |  |
| 1 Feb | Travel grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds,
Foundation for Basic Research in Medicine,
funding the research stay at UC Berkeley,
San Francisco, CA, USA,
February - April 2009 | Dorothea Emig |  |
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| 11 Jun | Otto-Hahn-Medaille | Christoph Bock |  |
 | 10 Oct | Forschungspreis Technische Kommunikation der Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung | Holger Bast |  |
| 25 Apr | Best Paper Award for GMP Conference 2008 Paper | Torsten Langer |  |
 | 21 Apr | Best Paper Award at the ICGL Conference | Gerard de Melo |  |
 | 2007 |
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 | 14 Apr | Otto-Hahn-Medaille | Sebastian Michel |  |
| 19 Dec | Dr. Meyer-
Struckmann-Wissenschaftspreis | Holger Bast |  |
 | 7 Nov | Heinz Billing Preis | Holger Bast, Stefan Funke |  |
| 25 Jun | Best Student Paper Award | Peter Haider, Ulf Brefeld |  |
 | 29 Mar | Best Poster Presentation | Oliver Sander |  |
| 28 Mar | 1. Posterpreis auf dem WS "New Approaches in Drug Design & Discovery" | Iris Antes, Christoph Hartmann, Thomas Lengauer |  |
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| 25 Apr | Honorable Mention within the Sigmod Dissertation Award | Martin Theobald |  |
 | 23 Apr | Otto-Hahn-Medaille | Martin Theobald,Christian Theobalt |  |
| 16 Nov | Heinz-Billing-Preis | Rafal Mantiuk, AG4 |  |
 | 16 Jun | Doctor of Mathematics, honoris causa, from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
| 10 Jan | ACM Fellow | Gerhard Weikum |  |
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| 11 May | Otto-Hahn-Medaille | Andrey Rybalchenko |  |
 | 24 Aug | Ackermann Award of the European Association of Computer Science Logic (EACSL) | Konstantin Korovin |  |
| 23 Aug | Saar LB-Wissenschaftspreis (Innovationspreis der SaarLB) | Ingo Wald |  |
 | 5 May | ATI Fellowship Award | Christian Theobalt |  |
 | 2004 |
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 | 21 Oct | SEL-ALCATEL | Peter Sanders |  |
| 20 Oct | Preis der Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg | Tobias Sing |  |
 | 8 Jun | Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis | Friedrich Eisenbrand |  |
| 1 Jan | Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
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| 12 Dec | Karl-Heinz Beckurts Preis | Thomas Lengauer |  |
 | 13 Oct | Diplomarbeit "Advanced Shadow Map Parameterization" als beste Diplomarbeit an einer deutschen Fachhochschule ausgezeichnet. | Thomas Annen |  |
| 12 Feb | Wilhelm-Gottfried-Leibniz Award | Hans-Peter Seidel |  |
 | 1 Jan | Prize for Scientific Achievements in Collaborative Research of the University of Wroclaw | Witold Charatonik, Andreas Podelski |  |
| 1 Jan | Prechel-Stiftung Award for Excellence | Jochen Maydt |  |
 | 1 Jan | DAAD Postdoc Stipendium | Jan Kautz |  |
| 1 Jan | Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina | Thomas Lengauer |  |
 | 1 Jan | Kühborth-Stiftung Award for Excellence | Jochen Maydt |  |
 | 2002 |
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 | 1 May | nVidea Fellowship | Jan Kautz |  |
| 1 May | Saar LB-Wissenschaftspreis (Innovationspreis der SaarLB) | Jörg Haber; Kolja Kähler |  |
 | 21 Jan | Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde an Uni Magdeburg | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
| 1 Jan | Bestes Poster bei 33. Cristallographic Course, Erice | Andreas Kämper |  |
 | 1 Jan | Eurographics Fellow | Hans-Peter Seidel |  |
| 1 Jan | Woody Bledsoe Reisestipendium | Thomas Hillenbrand |  |
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| 1 Nov | Heinz-Billing Preis | Jörg Haber |  |
 | 1 Oct | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis der Humboldt-Stiftung | Naveen Garg |  |
 | 2000 |
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 | 1 May | Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz-Preis | Leif Kobbelt |  |
| 1 Jan | Heinz-Billing-Preis | Oliver Kohlbacher |  |
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| 1 Mar | ACM Fellow and member of the Academia Europea | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
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| 1 Jan | Konrad-Zuse-Medaille | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
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| 1 Jan | Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Preis | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |
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| 1 Jan | Humboldt Preis für Deutsch-Französische Zusammenarbeit | Kurt Mehlhorn |  |