Today, the German Research Council (DFG) announced the ten awardees of the prestigeous Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize for the year 2022. Amongst them is Professor Dr. Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo from TU Darmstadt and GSI/FAIR. The DFG highlights Professor Martínez-Pinedo’s scientific oeuvre on the natural nucleosynthesis of heavy chemical elements in the Universe and his contributions to the recognition of neutron-star merger events appearing as transient kilonovae as the sites for the rapid-neutron capture process of the cosmic nucleosynthesis.

The DFG-announcement can be found here: https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2022/martinez_pinedo/index.jsp

Professor Martínez-Pinedo collaborates with 22 other Principal Investigators from TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Liebig University Gießen, and GSI/FAIR in the Hessian Research Cluster ELEMENTS for further clarifying the occurrence of heavy chemical elements in the Universe. He is also a Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1245 at TU Darmstadt and holds an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council.

The Institute for Nuclear Physics congratulates Professor Martínez-Pinedo to the well-deserved recognition of his ground-breaking scientific achievements.