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Professor Peter A. van Aken
Professor Bernhard Keimer
Professor Klaus Kern
Professor Joachim Maier
Professor Jochen Mannhart
Professor Jörg Wrachtrup

on the World's Best List of the most cited scientists for the year 2018 ("Highly Cited Researchers" from Clarivate Analytics).

Norman Pellet

was awarded with the "Doctoral Thesis Award in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering", also known as ‘the ISIC prize’ for his PhD thesis. (11.2017)

Dr Yan Yu

was awarded with the "2017 Small Young Innovator Award" from the Organizing Committee of the Small Sciences Symposium, Wiley. (08.2017)

Professor Joachim Maier

was nominated as Fellow of The Electrochemical Society. [more]

Dr Chia-Chin Chen

has received the "SSI-21 award" for the best presentation of a young researcher at the Solid State Ionics Conference in Padua. (06.2017)

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing

Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina. (11.2016)

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing

"IAS Senior Fellow", City University of Hong Kong (07.2016)

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing

Doctor Honoris Causa of the Osaka University "for outstanding contributions to academic research and education". (03.2016)

Pance Naumov

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awardee doing research at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (X-Ray Diffraction Group). (07.2015)

Humboldt Professorship for Hidenori Takagi

Research Minister Wanka and Humboldt Foundation President Schwarz confer Alexander von Humboldt Professorships during a special ceremony in Berlin.

One award winner is Hidenori Takagi, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Photo: Humboldt-Stiftung/Svea Pietschmann [more]

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Video on award winner Hidenori Takagi.

Hidenori Takagi (AvH)

More Information: Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Press Release (2013)

Prizes & Awards

Dr. Eva Benckiser

received the Walter Schottky Prize 2019 of the German Physical Society for her outstanding contributions to research on complex materials with correlated electrons. By developing x-ray spectroscopic methods she obtained novel insight into the electronic structure of metal-oxide interfaces and created a promising basis for targeted manipulation of their magnetic and transport properties. (11.2018) [more]

Prof. Dr. Peter A. van Aken

The Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, appointed Professor Dr. Peter A. van Aken as an Honorary Professor for the period 2018–2023. (11.2018)

Prof. Dr. Peter A. van Aken

The European Commission awards a Horizon H2020-INFRAIA-2018-2020 grant to Peter A. van Aken as a principle investigator and as the coordinator of the project "ESTEEM3 - Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy". (09.2018)

Albert Crewe Award 2018 for Timothy J. Pennycook

The Albert Crewe Award annually honors an early career scientist, in the field of physical sciences, for significant contributions in the field of microscopy and microanalysis during the first six years since doctoral graduation. The 2018 Crewe Award winner is: Timothy J. Pennycook, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany.

Timothy Pennycook had insight into the importance of drift and collection angle on the EELS elemental mapping data before even beginning his PhD. He is an innovator who pushes the bounds of what is physically possible with technological development. His work has shed light on the dynamics of materials and was the first to see the dynamics of a chemical reaction in atomic scale detail. (09.2018)

Prof. Dr. Darrell Galen Schlom

was awarded a Humboldt Research Award.

Professor Schlom comes from Cornell University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, USA and works in the field of "Production and Properties of Functional Materials". He will be hosted by Prof. Dr. Jochen Mannhart (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany). (09.2018)

Dr. Chia-Chin Chen

won the "Starck-Dissertation Award". This prestigious prize is conferred for the best dissertation in the year in Germany in the field of Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science. The title is: "Mass Storage at Heterojunctions: Theory, Experimental Evidence, and Electrochemical Applications". (09.2018)

ERC Starting Grant 2018

The European Research Council awards a Starting Grant to Dr. Nahid Talebi Savari currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. Titel of the project: "Quantum Coherent Control: Self-Interference of Electron Beams with Nanostructures". (07.2018) [more]

ERC Starting Grant 2018

The European Research Council awards a Starting Grant to Dr. Timothy Pennycook currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. Titel of the project: "High Definition Electron Microscopy: Greater clarity via multidimensionality". (07.2018) [more]

Dr. phil. Joseph Falson

was awarded a ›Nobel Laureate Fellowship‹ to get an unique insight into the research activities of a Nobel Laureate. (07.2018) [more]

Dr. rer. nat. Eslam Khalaf

was awarded a Otto Hahn Medal for the theoretical analysis of disorder effects on electronic transport in topological quantum wires. (07.2018) [more]

Luzia Germann

has been awarded a "Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award" 2018 from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA). (07.2018)

Professor Dimas G. de Oteyza

was awarded with a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in recognition of his outstanding research record, including cutting-edge achievements with seminal influence on the field of physical chemistry. (11.2017)

Bayerischer Ingenieurinnen-Preis

Katrin Fürsich was awarded by the Bavarian Ministry of Science for her outstanding thesis. (10.2017) [more]

Humboldt Research Award for Professor Andrzej M. Oleś

in recognition of his entire achievements in the theoretical physics of condensed matter. (11.2017) [more]

Iman Rastegar

His work on exploring oxide heterostructures for electron emission to achieve efficient energy conversion has been honored with the Shoulders-Gray-Spindt Award 2017 at the 30^th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference in Regensburg. (07.2017). [more]

Young Scientist Award for Y. Eren Suyolcu

Y. Eren Suyolcu was awarded the "Young Scientist Award" at the E-MRS 2017 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France. The prize was awarded for the research project "Dopant Size Effects on Interfacial Superconductivity in Lanthanum Cuprate Bilayers". (05.2017)

Professor Bettina Lotsch

was awarded with the "EU-40 materials prize" of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). (05.2017) [more]

Dr Stephan Rauschenbach

was awarded the 2017 Mattauch–Herzog Prize for Young Researchers by the German Mass Spectrometry Association.
The prize is awarded for outstanding scientific achievements in one of the two main areas of modern mass spectrometry, organic/biochemical analysis, and element and isotope analysis. It is one of the most prestigious and financially attractive prizes in the analytical sciences. (03.2017)

Professor Andrzej M. Oleś

was awarded the „Research Minister’s Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Basic Research in the Technical Sciences”. This Polish prize is awarded every year to one person only and comes with a prize money equivalent to 20,000 €. (12/2016)

Professor Andrzej M. Oleś

Guest professor at the MPI-FKF is awarded with the Marian-Smoluchowski-Emil-Warburg Award 2017 „Für seine Arbeiten über komplexe Ordnungsphänomene in der Festkörperphysik, insbesondere unter Einbeziehung orbitaler Freiheitsgrade des Elektrons.” (11.2016)

Photo: Tomasz Oleś [more]

$The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) announced Prof. Dr. E. Robert Dinnebier as Director-at-Large (2016-2020).$

Prof Dr Robert E. Dinnebier

The International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) announced Prof. Dr. E. Robert Dinnebier as Director-at-Large (2016-2020). [more]

Dr Andreas Grüneis

The Max Planck Society and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have appointed seven outstanding scientists as leaders of Max Planck Research Groups and tenure track professors at TUM. Dr Andreas Grüneis was appointed to this "MaxPlanck@TUM" alliance. (10.2016) [more]

ERC Starting Grant

The European Research Council awards a project grant to Dr Andreas Grüneis currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. Project titel: "Towards chemical accuracy in computational materials science". (08.2016)

Student Award for Y. Eren Suyolcu

Y. Eren Suyolcu was awarded a "Student Award" (Presidential Scholar Award) at the Microscopy & Microanalysis Conference 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. The prize was awarded for the research project "Linking Dopant Distribution and Interatomic Distortions at La_1.6M_0.4CuO₄/La₂CuO₄ Superconducting Interfaces". (07.2016)

Dr Christoph Große

received a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. Academic host: Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge. (06.2016)

Otto Hahn Medal

Dr Christoph Große was awarded with an Otto Hahn medal. (06.2016) [more]

ERC Consolidator Grant

The European Research Council awards a project grant to Dr Christian R. Ast currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. (04.2016) [more]

ERC Advanced Grant

The European Research Council awards a project grant to Professor Bernhard Keimer. (07.2015) [more]

Otto Hahn Medals

Dr Benedikt Frieß and Dr Tomce Runčevski were awarded with an
Otto Hahn medal. (06.2015) [more]

Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Ali Alavi has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society. (05.2015) [more]

New MPI-FKF Research Group

led by Dr Philipp Hansmann, with the goal of performing calculations for correlated electron systems. (04.2015) [more]

StEM has joined MPI-FKF

On April 1, 2015, the Stuttgart Center for Electron Microscopy (StEM) of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) has joined our Institute, MPI-FKF. The transfer of the Center, led by Professor Peter van Aken, is a consequence of the scientific evolution of MPI-IS and further strengthens our analytical capabilities. (04.2015) [more]

Ernst-Eckhard Koch Award

Dr Alex Manuel Frano Pereira graduated with distinction from the Technical University of Berlin, and won the Springer thesis Award for his outstanding research on metal-oxide heterostructures. (01.2015) [more]

ERC Starting Grants

The European Research Council awards project grants to Professor Bettina V. Lotsch and Dr Sebastian Loth, both currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. (12.2014) [more]

Appointment of Dr Stefan Kaiser to a joint Junior Professorship at the University of Stuttgart

He will start an "Ultrafast Solid State Spectroscopy" group at the MPI-FKF focusing on optical control and non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly correlated electron systems and novel quantum materials. (12.2014) [more]

Prange Prize 2014

Nobel laureate Professor Klaus v. Klitzing has been named the 2014 recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. (11.2014)

Walter Schottky Prize 2015

Dr Andreas Schnyder, scientist in the Quantum Many-Body Theory Department, will receive the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society for his work on the classification of topological insulators and superconductors. (11.2014) [more]

Joint Junior Professorship

Dr Andreas Rost was appointed to a joint junior professorship at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the University of Stuttgart. (11.2014) [more]

International Society of Electrochemistry

Andreas Wohlfarth was awarded the "Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2014" (XIVth International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes, Geelong, Australia). (08.2014)

Hugo-Häring Award 2014

The newly constructed Precision Laboratory on the Büsnau campus was built on an initiative of Professor Kern in close collaboration between the construction department of the Max Planck Society, HammesKrause Architects and the Institute. (08.2014)
Photo: Wolf-Dieter Gericke [more]

Europhysics Prize 2014

Professor Jochen Mannhart has been awarded the Europhysics Prize together with Harold Hwang and Jean-Marc Triscone. With their work, the scientists have taken an important step towards making chips for computers or mobile phones smaller and more energy-efficient. (08.2014) [more]

The IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Low Temperature Physics

will be awarded to Dr Mathieu Le Tacon for his "innovative photon scattering experiments elucidating spin and charge ordering phenomena and excitations in high-temperature superconductors and other correlated-electron materials". (08.2014) [more]

Professor Robert J. Schoelkopf and Professor Jörg Wrachtrup to receive the Max Planck Research Award

The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation honour pioneering work in the field of quantum nanoscience. (07.2014)
Photo: David Ausserhofer/private photo [more]

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing was elected Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. (06.2014)

Academy Prize 2014

Dr Mathieu Le Tacon received the Academy Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. (05.2014)

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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing and Professor Theodor Hänsch were appointed honorary members of the Board of Trustees of the PTB. (05.2014)

ESRF Young Scientist Award 2014

At the annual ESRF Users’ Meeting on 3rd February, the Users’ Organisation declared solid state physicist Dr Mathieu Le Tacon, aged 33, winner of the Young Scientist Award for his outstanding work on a new electronic phase of cuprates that competes directly with superconductivity. (02.2014) [more]

Hall of Fame

Professor Klaus v. Klitzing, Director at the MPI for Solid State Research, was appointed to the Hall of Fame of German Research. (12.2013) [more]

Bryan R. Coles Prize 2013

Dr Bum Joon Kim wins the Coles Prize "For seminal contributions to the discovery and experimental study of an unconventional Mott insulating state induced by relativistic spin-orbit coupling in the transition metal oxide Sr₂IrO₄". (08.2013)

for Dr Dmytro Inosov for the work on magnetic excitations in iron-based high-Tc superconductors, and especially for the detailed studies of the magnetic resonant mode in the superconducting state. (09.2012)