Presentation of the Marthe Vogt Prize 2025 on October 13, 2025

Venue: Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, event hall on the 1st floor
Registration by October 6, 2025, at marthe-vogt-preisfv-berlin.de

5:30 p.m. Doors open and welcome reception

6:00 p.m. Start of event

Greeting: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Fiedler
Keynote: Vielfalt denkt weiter – Warum Forschung Empathie braucht | Shary Reeves
Laudatory speech: Dr. Sami Domisch
Lecture by the award winner: From local streams to global patterns — Mapping freshwater biodiversity with open science | Dr. Afroditi Grigoropoulou
Music: ECAP – Mascha Juno & Johannes Schleiermacher
Hosted by Martin Böhnke & Dr. Patricia Löwe

Followed by a reception with live music

Download: Invitation

The Award

The Marthe Vogt Award honors an outstanding doctoral thesis in a field of research covered by one of the institutes of the Forschungsverbund Berlin. The institutes’ fields of research include, among others, molecular pharmacology, structural biology and chemical biology, new materials, aquatic ecology and biodiversity research, veterinary medicine, biotechnology and environmental research, nanomaterials, quantum materials, optoelectronics and materials research, laser research and light matter interaction and applied mathematics. The doctorate should have been completed at a non-university research institution or at a university in the Berlin/Brandenburg region.

Name giver Marthe Vogt (1903–2003) researched neurotransmitters and worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung in Berlin-Buch, today‘s location of our Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP). She is a role model for our prize in an academic and human way. Because of the National Socialist policy against Jewish scientists, she left Germany in 1935 and continued her research in Great Britain.

^{Artwork: Anja Matzker | The modified portrait of Marthe Louse Vogt is licenced under CC BY 4.0 to the best of one's knowledge.}