Who will take home the €100,000 Einstein Foundation early career award? Meet the finalists pioneering research quality!
Join us to hear from five outstanding early-career researchers—selected by an international jury from 72 applicants as finalists for the prestigious Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research.
Thanks to the generous support of the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research, the Early Career Award category provides €100,000 to empower the winner to bring their vision to life.
Each finalist will pitch innovative, forward-thinking ideas aimed at strengthening the rigor, reliability, reproducibility, and transparency of research practices across disciplines – from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and life sciences.
Register now to watch the live presentations on 10 November!
The 2025 Early Career Award Finalists
- Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of AI on Scientific Cognition and Research Integrity: Laura Globig, New York University, USA
- Image2Model Exchange: Democratizing AI analysis through FAIR data and model sharing: Hernan Andres Morales Navarrete, Universidad De Las Américas, Ecuador
- High Resolution Climate Dataset for West Africa: A Service for Climate Protection and Energy Transitions: Team Lead Aissatou Ndiaye, University of Augsburg, Germany
- UMUD: A Web Application to Address the Need for Open Research Data and Reproducibility in Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography: Team Lead Paul Ritsche, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Erring rigorously – On quantifying the impact of errors in the wet lab on downstream analysis: Maximilian Sprang, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
The event highlights how these visionary approaches can transform the ways knowledge is generated, shared, and evaluated—ultimately strengthening the integrity and openness of scientific inquiry. Following the presentations, the jury will deliberate and select the winner, who will receive €100,000 to bring their idea to fruition.
This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with the next generation of researchers who are shaping the future of science with integrity and creativity.
Moderator
Ulrich Dirnagl, Founding Director of the QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
The Einstein Foundation Award
The Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research honors substantial contributions that strengthen the culture of robust, transparent, and reproducible research across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and life sciences.
By recognizing and incentivizing forward-thinking approaches that enhance the integrity and openness of research processes, the award supports efforts that improve how knowledge is generated, shared, and evaluated across all disciplines. These foundational improvements are essential to enabling sustainable and meaningful responses to the pressing challenges of our time.