- Michael Ehrmann was awarded an honorary professorship by Cardiff University in Wales.
- Corinna Schirling received the poster award of the “Forschungstag 2008 Research Day at University Hospital Essen.
- The Applied Zoology / Hydrobiology research group succeeded in gaining Dr. Ana Perez del Olmo as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholar.
- In May 2008, Dr. Christiane Wittmann received the “Wissenschaftspreis 2007, a special prize for ecology awarded by the Gesellschaft für Wissenschaft und Leben e.V. (GWL) and the National-Bank for outstanding scientific achievement in the field of biology.
