Beneke studied
Physics,
Mathematics and
Philosophy at the
University of Konstanz,
University of Cambridge and
University of Heidelberg. In 1993 he received his doctorate at the
Technical University of Munich on the structure of perturbative series in higher order and habilitated in
Heidelberg in 1998. At the age of 33 Beneke became head of the Chair of
Theoretical Physics (Department E) at the
RWTH Aachen University in 1999. In 2008 Martin Beneke was awarded the
Leibniz Prize in the amount of 2.5 Million Euro. The research done by Beneke considerably contributes to the verification of theoretical concepts of elementary particle physics, to the indication of variations and to the identification of new structures. ==Awards==