12/15/2023 This year, the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS is awarding three doctoral prizes exceptionally. The outstanding works of Angelo Caravano from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Elisabetta Bossio and Thomas Pöschl from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are being honoured. The ORIGINS PhD Awards were presented ceremonially during the ORIGINS Science Week from 3. - 6. December 2023 in Kloster Irsee. 

11/27/2023 The new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) TRR 392 "Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments", a collaboration between Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will start in April 2024. The scientists involved, including several from the ORIGINS Cluster, are researching the very first steps in the development of life on Earth. The focus is on how molecules evolved in a prebiotic world and produced the first life information in sequence form.

11/23/2023 The European Research Council (ERC) is funding ORIGINS scientists Prof. Til Birnstiel and Prof. Job Boekhoven with two Consolidator Grants for their innovative projects.

11/17/2023 Prof. Erwin Frey, ORIGINS scientist and Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, receives the Max Planck Medal - the most prestigious German Physical Society (DPG) award.

11/16/2023 ORIGINS scientist and Max Planck Director Petra Schwille receives the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany for services in the interest of the common good for her research.

11/09/2023 Since November 1, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has had a new address. After 65 years, the institute is saying "goodbye" to its location at the Englischer Garten in Munich and moving into a new building on the IPP site at the Garching Research Center. This closes a circle. The new domicile is not only located in the immediate vicinity of the excellence cluster ORIGINS, but also of the three MPIs, all of which were spun off from the MPP: the MPIs for Astrophysics, Plasma Physics, and Extraterrestrial Physics.

10/27/2023 ORIGINS physicist Prof. Johannes Henn has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of particle physics, cosmology and mathematics.

10/25/2023 Cluster Emeritus Prof. Dr. Andrzej J. Buras from the Technical University of Munich will receive the Sakurai Prize (official name: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics). The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in theoretical particle physics. The Sakurai Prize will be awarded by the American Physical Society at its annual meeting from 3 to 6 April 2024 in Sacramento, California, and honors outstanding achievements in particle physics theory.

10/16/2023 ORIGINS scientist and science journalist Harald Lesch has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

09/15/2023 The LMU astrophysicist and ORIGINS scientist has won the award for his modeling of dust traps in protoplanetary disks, solving a long-standing puzzle in planet formation.