Antje Baeumner, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, has been awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship from the Alexander von Humbodt Foundation and a Mercator Guest Professorship from the German National Science Foundation.

The Humboldt fellowship was awarded in recognition of her contribution to research and science. The Mercator guest professorship award for research and teaching will allow Baeumner to work during her upcoming sabbatical leave at the Institute of Biological and Chemical Microstructures and the Institute for Analytical Sciences in Dortmund, Germany, on microfluidics, dendrimers, surface chemistry and detection (her area of expertise), to image cancer cells in vivo using nanovesicles.

Baeumner, who earned her Ph.D. in technical biochemistry at the University of Stuttgart in 1997, has been on the Cornell faculty since 1999.