Announcing the Academia Europaea prizes and recipients for 2025#
Academia Europaea is proud to announce the recipients of our prestigious prizes for 2025, recognising outstanding scholarly excellence and impact across disciplines.
Erasmus Medal 2025 – Awarded to László Lovász MAE#
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Erasmus Medal will be awarded to Professor László Lovász MAE, mathematician, past Academic Director of the Academia Europaea Budapest Knowledge Hub
and former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Lovász is also recipient of the AE Barcelona Hypatia Prize (2019).
First awarded to János Kornai at the fourth Annual Meeting in Budapest in 1992, the Erasmus Medal has become a highlight of Academia Europaea’s annual conference. It celebrates lifetime scholarly excellence, achievement, and impact, with past recipients including Nobel Laureates Paul Crutzen, Harold Kroto, and Bert Sakmann.
Professor Lovász will receive the Medal at the AE Annual Conference, Building Bridges, in Barcelona in October. The laudation will be delivered by Professor Janos Pach MAE.
Advanced Adam Kondorosi Prize for Plant Sciences 2025 – Awarded to Jens Stougaard MAE#
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Advanced Adam Kondorosi Prize for Plant Sciences will be awarded to Professor Jens Stougaard MAE.
Established in 2016, this prize commemorates the pioneering work of the late Professor Adam Kondorosi MAE in plant-microbe interactions and symbiotic nitrogen fixation. It recognises landmark research that has significantly advanced scientific understanding in these fields.
The Prize will be formally awarded at the European Nitrogen Fixation conference in Oxford this August. Professor Stougaard will also deliver the Adam Kondorosi Award Lecture at the AE Annual Conference in Barcelona in October.
Sydney Brenner Medal 2025 – Awarded to Markus Ralser#
The 2025 Sydney Brenner Medal will be awarded to Professor Markus Ralser, Director of the Institute and Group Leader in Biochemistry and Systems Biology of Metabolism at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
Established in 2022 by the Class of Life Sciences (Class C), the Medal honours the legacy of one of Academia Europaea’s founding members - Sydney Brenner. It celebrates exceptional scholarship and personal achievement within 20 years of obtaining a PhD (with allowance for career breaks), in the field of molecular biology and related disciplines.
Professor Ralser will receive the Medal at Building Bridges. The laudation will be given by Professor Kathryn Lilley MAE.
