DuPont-Young Professor Award

Jürgen Seibel has been awarded the Young Professor Award from the chemical company DuPont, which is endowed with  $ 75 000 of funding over three years. The money is used to fund the winners’ own research. The DuPont Young Professor grant program is significant, not only for the diversity of people, universities and studies represented, but also because it has reached out to the academic community for more than four decades, making it one of the most sustained programs for academic support. There were nine winners, of which Seibel is the only European. His prize money will be heading to the Sugar Research at the University of Würzburg.