The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation have created an award for international researchers who show outstanding potential.
The Max Planck-Humboldt Award is being funded by the federal education ministry and will be awarded for the first time in 2018, according to a Max Planck announcement made on 31 July.
The €1.5-million award will be given to one researcher a year, who will move to Germany for a temporary research residency. The award will alternate between the natural and engineering sciences, the life sciences and the human sciences.