On the 6th of December 2012 The Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft decided to award Onur Güntürkün with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award. With 2.5 million Euro that can freely be spent within 7 years, the Leibniz award is the highest European award of its kind. The DFG calls it "freedom like in fairy tales".

It feels like that.