Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the German Physical Society and the German Chemical Society – 2025
This prestigous prize was awarded to Professor Peter Hommelhoff, see here and here for more details.
Körber Foundation Dissertation Prize – 2024
Dr Tobias Weitz was awarded a 5000€ 2nd prize from the Körber Foundation for his dissertation, perhaps the most visible doctoral prize in the whole of Germany.
Shoulders-Gray-Spindt Prize – 2024
Leon Brückner was awarded the Shoulders-Gray-Spindt (SGS) Prize for the promotion of young scientists in the field of vacuum nanoelectronics on behalf of the founders of the International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC) for his publication on ‘Coherent particle acceleration on a nanophotonic chip’.
Röntgen Prize – 2023
Dr Roy Shiloh was awarded the Röntgen Prize 2023 of the University of Giessen – endowed with a prize of 15,000€ for his outstanding contributions to the realisation of a photonic particle accelerator.
Applied Photonics Award – 2023
Dr Tobias Weitz was awarded the ‘Jury Prize for basic research work in an important future field of the modern information society’ for his dissertation ‘Lightwave electronics in graphene’.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – 2022
Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2022, Germany’s most important research funding prize, by the German Research Foundation (DFG) alongside other prize winners. The prize is endowed with research funds of 2.5 million euros.
Ohm Prizes
The Ohm Prizes are awarded annually by the Department of Physics for the best theses ranging from bachelor’s theses to doctoral dissertations:
2025 Felix López Hoffmann – master thesis
2023 Simon Wittigschlager – master thesis
2023 Tobias Volk – bachelor thesis
2022 Nils Bode – bachelor thesis
2021 Dr. Christian Heide – dissertation
2021 Urs Häusler – master thesis
2018 Jonas Heimerl – master thesis
2018 Helene Müller – bachelor thesis
2017 Philip Dienstbier – master thesis
2017 Paul Beck – bachelor thesis
2017 Timo Eckstein – bachelor thesis
Poster prizes
Prizes for the best poster contributions are awarded at many international conferences:
2024 DPG Spring Conference – Julian Freier for ‘Experiments on cell irradiation and film dosimetry with low-energy electrons from a compact ultrafast electron source’.
2022 EuroNAAc4 Conference – Stefanie Kraus for “Acceleration of electrons using nanophotonic structures”.
2022 ATTO-VII Conference – Philip Dienstbier for “Tracing sub-cycle electron dynamics in two-color nearfields of nanometric metal tips”.
2022 Center for Nanoscience at LMU Munich (CeNS) – Tobias Boolakee with the Nanoinnovation Award for “A light-field controlled logic gate in a graphene heterojunction”.
2019 5th International Symposium on Synthetic Carbon Allotropes – Christian Heide for “Attosecond charge transfer from a 2D material (graphene) to a 3D material (silicon carbide)”.
2017 Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Control of Light & Matter – Dr. Takuya Higuchi for “Control of quantum mechanical interference effects of electrons in graphene induced by the fast oscillating electromagnetic field of short laser pulses”.