Pakistani scientist, Asifa Akhtar, will receive the prestigious GottfriedWilhelm Leibniz Prize next year. She is among the ten recipients to win thenomination for outstanding research work in her field. The award ceremonywill be a virtual event, scheduled for March 15, 2021.——————————
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Asifa Akhtar serves as VP for The Max Planck Society, Germany’s mostsuccessful research institution. Since 1948, 18 Nobel laureates haveemerged from the research organization, putting it on par with some of thebest research institutions worldwide.
Hailing from Karachi, Asifa Akhtar achieved her doctorate at the ImperialCancer Research Fund London, U.K, in 1997. Later, she moved to Germany,where she worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at the European Molecular BiologyLaboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Adolf-Butenandt Institute in Munichfrom 1998 to 2001.
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In 2008, Asifa received the Early Career European Life Science OrganisationAward, the EMBO membership in 2013, and the Feldberg Prize in 2017. She waselected as a member of the renowned National Academy of Science Leopoldinain 2019.
The German Research Foundation (DFG) committee has historically awarded theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2021 to four female and six malescientists. Of the ten winners, two each hail from the humanities andsocial sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and four from lifesciences. They were nominated from 131 proposals by the relevant selectioncommittee. Each recipient of the Leibniz Award will receive a cash prize of2.5 million euros.
