Sociologist Céline Teney in the University of Bremen’s Faculty of Social Sciences has been awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016, the most important prize for early-career researchers in Germany. The prize endowed with 20,000 euros is granted by German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Of the 134 nominated outstanding researchers across all faculties of German universities, a total of ten were finally selected to receive the award at a prize giving ceremony to be held in Berlin on May 16, 2016. One of the prizewinners is Céline Teney from the University of Bremen.
Céline Teney’s main research topics<
The Bremen professor currently leads a Collaborative Junior Research Group supported by the Excellence Initiative at the SOCIUM Research Center for Inequality and Social Policy on the topic “Winners of Globalization? A Study on the Emergence of a Transnational Elite in Europe”. Building on her broad education in sociology, Céline Teney has earned a reputation in the fields of integration research and political sociology. Announcing its grounds for the award, the jury stressed: “Characteristic for her research is the broad thematic scope which ranges from the acculturation of ethnic minorities, through the transnationalization of elites and other social groups, to the election success of extreme right-wing political parties. Teney makes expert use of numerous methods of data analysis such as the geographically weighted statistical evaluation procedures applied in her analysis of the NPD’s election success”. Born in Belgium, Céline Teney studied for her doctorate in Freiburg and Brussels before, among other things, participating in research stays at the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Harvard University.
Information on the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize<
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize has been awarded to outstanding early-career researchers every year since 1977 in recognition of their achievement and at the same time to provide motivation to purposefully continue pursuing their research career. Named after the nuclear physicist and former President of the German Research Foundation – in whose term of office the prize was first awarded – the prize is not only generally considered to be the most important of its kind for early-career researchers in Germany. In a survey conducted by the periodical “bild der wissenschaft”, Germany’s largest research organizations voted the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize as the third-most-important of all Germany’s science prizes – preceded only by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation and the German President’s Zukunftspreis [Future Prize].
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