13. July 2026

Sarah Egert receives the University’s Teaching Award Sarah Egert receives the University’s Teaching Award

The University of Bonn awarded teaching prizes to 14 academic lecturers

Anyone who inspires and guides students and empowers them to never stop learning will shape the University well beyond the four walls of their lecture hall. With this year’s teaching prizes, the University of Bonn is recognizing 14 teachers who have supported their students with their unique ideas, commitment and specialist expertise. The awards are decided on by the students themselves based on their own evaluations of the teaching delivered and nominations from the faculties and the Bonn Center for Teacher Education.

Prof. Dr Sarah Egert at the presentation of the certificate by Prorector Prof. Dr Annette Scheersoi © Marc John | Uni Bonn

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The winners were handed their certificates by the Vice Rectors in front of an audience of some 2,000 graduates at the Universitätsfest ceremony at KUNST!RASEN in Bonn’s Rheinaue park on July 11. “Inspirational teaching is about more than imparting knowledge,” said Professor Klaus Sandmann, Vice Rector for Teaching, Learning and University Development, at the awards ceremony. “It sparks students’ curiosity, challenges them to think for themselves and gives them the confidence to forge their own paths. Through your hard work and dedication, you are creating precisely these spaces for learning, for which you deserve my most heartfelt thanks.”

The University of Bonn began awarding teaching prizes as long ago as 2011, honoring teachers who inject fresh ideas into their courses to keep them evolving, who help to shape degree programs or who trial innovative teaching formats. This is why they make a real difference: through their commitment, their creativity and their mission to convey knowledge to their students in the best way they possibly can.

2026’s prizewinners are:

Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences
Prof. Dr. Sarah Egert, Institute of Nutritional and Food Science

Bonn Center for Teacher Education
Theresa Strombach, Department of German and Comparative Literature and Culture

Faculty of Catholic Theology
Dominik Schlauß, Department of Old Testament Studies

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Dr. Marcus A. Hubert, Pharmacy Department
Julia Klumparendt, Earth Sciences Department
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Schober, Physics and Astronomy Department
Prof. Dr. Christoph Thiele, Molecular Biomedicine Department

Faculty of Medicine
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kürten, Institute for Anatomy—Chair of Neuroanatomy
Prof. Dr. Tobias Raupach, Institute for Medical Education

Faculty of Arts
Dr. Lucas Curstädt, Department of Language, Media Studies, and Musicology—Media Studies and Musicology Section
Dr. Ghattas Eid, Department of English, American, and Celtic Studies
Dr. Sang-Yi O-Rauch, Department of Oriental and Asian Studies

Faculty of Law and Economics
Prof. Dr. Alexander Scheuch, Department of Law—Institute of Commercial and Economic Law
JProf. Julia Mink, Ph.D., Department of Economics—Institute for Applied Microeconomics

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