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Research Prizes 2024
The Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize 2024 for an outstanding doctoral thesis went to Dr Dieter Skroblin from the Technical University of Berlin. The European Innovation Award for Synchrotron Radiation was awarded to Dr Manfred Faubel from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Göttingen and Dr Bernd Winter from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. The prizes were awarded at the BESSY II user meeting in Berlin-Adlershof in December.
Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize
Dieter Skroblin (centre) at the award ceremony for the Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize in Berlin-Adlershof in December 2024 with Dr Michael Krumrey (left) from PTB and Dr Franziska Emmerling (right) from BAM. (Photo: Michael Setzpfandt).
The Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Prize 2024 was awarded to Dr. Dieter Skroblin from the Technical University of Berlin. His dissertation “Application of X-ray Characterization Tools for ordered Nanostructures: Hybrid Detectors, Magnetic Sample Environment & Computational Simulations” was carried out at PTB and combines innovative X-ray scattering and spectrometry methods to study nanomaterials. Dr. Skroblin made significant progress in experimental setups and data interpretation, including the calibration of a hybrid pixel detector and the development of a device for aligning nanoparticles in a magnetic field. The award committee recognized the importance of his work for future research priorities at the planned synchrotron radiation source BESSY III.
Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation
From left to right: Prof. Gerard Meijer, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Dr. Manfred Faubel, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Dr. Bernd Winter, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Dr. Franziska Emmerling, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. © M. Setzpfandt / HZB
The 2024 Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Prize was awarded to Dr. Manfred Faubel of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and Dr. Bernd Winter of the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. They received the prize for their groundbreaking development and application of liquid jet photoelectron spectroscopy (LJ-PES). The method is widely used to study surface phenomena, biochemical reactions and atmospheric chemistry. Prof. Gerard Meijer from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin gave the laudatory speech at the award ceremony on December 11, 2024 in Berlin-Adlershof.
Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V.
The Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e. V. is dedicated to the promotion of science and research with synchrotron radiation and in particular of young scientists. It aims to be a link between the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the public and to foster co-operation between the HZB, its friends and sponsors and other institutions in Germany and abroad. The association's main activities include the annual awarding of the Ernst Eckhard Koch Dissertation Prize and the Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation.
In memory of the former scientific director of BESSY, Prof. Dr Ernst-Eckhard Koch, who died in September 1988, the association has awarded the Ernst-Eckhard Koch Prize annually since 1990 to honour outstanding doctoral theses in the field of synchrotron radiation. The doctoral theses should have been carried out at HZB or DESY in Hamburg, the main places where E.-E. Koch worked.
Since 2001, the association has also awarded the Europe-wide Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation, which is awarded for an outstanding achievement that contributes significantly to the further development of the technology, methodology or utilisation of synchrotron radiation.
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