2024
The 2024 Nils Klim Prize was awarded to Siddharth Sareen for his research in environmental social sciences.
2023
The 2023 Nils Klim Prize was awarded to Danish literary researcher Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen for her research into the history of the Danish novel, its narrative structure and its fictionality.
2022
The 2022 Nils Klim Prize was awarded to Finnish theologian Elisa Uusimäki, for her outstanding research into the literary and cultural history of Judaism in antiquity.
2021
The 2021 Nils Klim Prize was awarded to Finnish-Russian Daria Gritsenko, for her outstanding research contributions in the intersection between political science, environmental studies and digital humanities.
2020
The Danish theologian Frederik Poulsen was awarded the 2020 Nils Klim Prize for his outstanding contributions to Old Testament Studies.
2019
The Nils Klim Prize 2019 was awarded to the Icelandic-Swedish philosopher Finnur Dellsén for his research in the fields of philosophy of science and epistemology.
2018
The Nils Klim Prize for 2018 was awarded to the Norwegian political scientist Francesca R. Jensenius.
2017
The Nils Klim Prize for 2017 was awarded to the Norwegian Economist Katrine Vellesen Løken.
2016
The Nils Klim Prize for 2016 was awarded to the Swedish legal scholar Sanja Bogojević.
2015
The Nils Klim Prize for 2015 was awarded to Danish social scientist Rebecca Adler-Nissen.
2014
The Nils Klim Prize for 2014 was awarded to the Norwegian linguist Terje Lohndal.
2013
The Nils Klim Prize for 2013 was awarded to the Norwegian economist Ingvild Almås.
2012
The Nils Klim Prize for 2012 was awarded to the Danish social scientist Sara Hobolt.
2011
The Nils Klim Prize for 2011 was awarded to the Norwegian jurist and legal theorist Jørn Jacobsen.
2010
The Nils Klim Prize for 2010 was awarded to the Swedish historian Johan Östling.
2009
The Nils Klim Prize for 2009 was awarded to the Danish philologist David Bloch.
2008
The Nils Klim Prize for 2008 was awarded to the Finnish sociologist Anne Birgitta Pessi.
2007
The Nils Klim Prize for 2007 was awarded to the Swedish social scientist Carina Keskitalo.
2006
The Nils Klim Prize for 2006 was awarded to the Swedish economist Linda Wedlin.
2005
The Nils Klim Prize for 2005 was awarded to the Norwegian linguist Dag Trygve Truslew Haug.
2004
The Nils Klim Prize for 2004 was awarded to the Danish media theorist Claes de Vreese.