We are happy to announce that Bernhard has been awarded the prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Medal of the TUM at the Dies Academicus 2014! TUM president Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann awarded the medal in recognition of our break through publication in Nature featuring one of the first draft maps of the human proteome.

TUM awards the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal in recognition of outstanding achievements in science, technology or medicine and committed service to the university as a teacher and researcher. The medal was first awarded in 1997 and is named after Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Germany's pioneer in neutron physics and one of the most prominent scientists TUM ever had. Maier-Leibnitz developed the technical concept behind Germany's first neutron source (atomic egg, 1957/58) in Garching.