Prizes and Honors awarded to MPSD Researchers
2024
ERC Starting Grant
Chunyu Guo (MQM)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
George Trenins (Theory, SAbIA)
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Christian Schäfer (Theory)
2024 EPS Europhysics Prize
Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Fangzhou Zhao (Theory)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Mark Kamper Svendsen (Theory)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship
Samuel Holt (SSU CS)
Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize
Mariana Rossi (Theory, SAbIA)
2023
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Jonathan Mannouch (Theory)
Foreign Member of the CAS
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
ERC Consolidator Grant
Michael Sentef (Theory, TDPPSS)
DTU Young Researcher Award
Mark Kamper Svendsen (Theory)
Spanish National Research Prize
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
DOE Early Career Award
James McIver (CMD, UTQM)
ERC Consolidator Grant
Philip Moll (MQM)
2022
Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Bo Yuan (CMD, QCMD)
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
Hackathon win
Ashwin Kumar, Martin Lang, Kevin Yanes Garcia (SSU CS)
ERC Starting Grant
Enrico Ronca (Theory)
Jean-Marie Lehn and Klaus von Klitzing Prize
Kateryna Kusyak (CMD, UTQM)
Bernhard Heß Prize
Frank Schlawin (CMD)
Stefan Hell Prize
Felix Sturm (CMD, UTQM)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship
Hope Bretscher (CMD, UTQM)
ERC Consolidator Grant
Ajit Srivastava
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Hope Bretscher (CMD, UTQM)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
I-Te Lu (Theory)
2021
Mildred Dresselhaus Prize
Prineha Narang (Theory)
Brebis Bleaney Memorial Lecture 2021: Driven Quantum Materials
Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Ofer Neufeld (Theory)
Fellow of the European Physical Society (EPS)
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Albert Liu (CMD, QCMD) and Alan Lewis (Theory, SAbIA)
2020
Otto Stern Prize
Gunda Kipp (CMD, UTQM)
Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
Ángel Rubio (Theory)
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship
Franco Bonafé and Jin Zhang (both Theory)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Dongbin Shin (Theory)
2019
Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Ankit Disa (CMD, QCMD)
2018
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Simone Latini (Theory)
European Physical Society prize
R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Humboldt Research Fellowship
Eryin Wang (CMD, QCMD)
Chorafas Prize
Eryin Wang (CMD, QCMD)
2017
Frank Isakson-Preis of the American Physical Society - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Member of the Academia Europaea - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Humboldt Research Fellowship - Ankit Disa (CMD, QCMD)
Best Oral Presentation at CFEL Symposium - Alexander von Hoegen (CMD, QCMD)
ERC Starting Grant - Wanzheng Hu (CMD, QCMD)
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions research grant - Joaquim Jornet-Somoza (Theory)
Reimar-Lüst-Fellowship of the MPG - Roman Mankowsky (CMD, QCMD)
Honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in Canada - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Max-Born-Prize 2018 of the Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (DPG) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Humboldt Research Fellowship - Shunsuke Sato (Theory)
Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions research grant - Peizhe Tang (Theory)
2016
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - Martin Eckstein (Theory, TCSE)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission - Florian G. Eich (Theory)
Dr. Karl-Robert Brauns Prize for Ophthalmology of the Dr. Liselotte and Dr. Karl-Robert Brauns Foundation - Stephan J. Linke (with N.-O. Hansen, R. J. D. Miller, L. Ren et al.) (ARD, Miller-Group)
Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Honoured Alumni of the Year Award in Chemistry of the University of Manitoba - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Best Poster Award (First Prize) of the 8th International Conference on Coherent Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopy (CMDS 2016) - Alessandra Picchiotti (ARD, Miller-Group)
Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - Angel Rubio (Theory)
JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Medal of the Real Sociedad Española de Física (RSEF) - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Member of Academia Europaea - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Emmy Noether junior research group of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Michael Sentef (Theory)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission - Lede Xian (Theory)
2015
Dannie-Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities for his time-resolved measurements of light-induced phase transitions in highly correlated electron systems - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Max Born Medal and Prize 2015 of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers - Xinxin Cheng (ARD, Miller-Group)
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers - Sérgio Domingos (CCM)
Miller Research Fellowship of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science - Cassi Hunt (CMD, QCMD)
Prix Arnulf-Françon of the Société Française d'Optique (SFO) for the Massive Open Online Course "Optique non-linéaire" - Vincent Kemlin (CMD, QCMD)
PCCP Best Poster Prize at the Tulip VI Summer School on Modern Developments in Spectroscopy - Anna Krin (CCM)
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers - James McIver (CMD, QCMD)
E. Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy of the American Chemical Society (ACS) - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
Wilhelm-Ostwald-Nachwuchspreis 2015 of the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gesellschaft, the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry and the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - Rike Müller-Werkmeister (ARD, Miller-Group)
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers - Cristóbal Pérez (CCM)
Max Planck Prince of Asturias Mobility Grant - María del Mar Quesada Moreno (CCM)
Frontiers Innovator Award of the Wellcome Trust - Wesley D. Robertson (ARD, Miller-Group)
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - Angel Rubio (Theory)
XVth Manuel Laborde Werlinden Prize for the spin-off "Materials Evolution" - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Prize for Chemistry 2015 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities for her pioneering development of new methods to study the rotational spectra of state-selected molecules in extremely cold conditions - Melanie Schnell (CCM)
Max Planck India Mobility Grant - Anshu Sharma (ARD, Miller-Group)
2014
Humboldt Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Jacob Burgess (CMD, DNES)
Postdoc Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Jacob Burgess (CMD, DNES)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission - Arend G. Dijkstra (ARD, Miller-Group)
Award of the Freundes- und Förderverein Chemie der Universität Hamburg e.V. for one of the best doctoral theses at the Department of Chemistry in 2014 - Dennis Eggert (ARD, Miller-Group)
Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - Sebastian Loth (CMD, DNES)
Best Student Presentation Award in Symposium V of the 2014 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) - Roman Mankowsky (CMD, QCMD)
PCCP ‘Hot Topics’ Poster Prize at the Bunsentagung 2014 - Simon Merz (CCM)
Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission - Rike Müller-Werkmeister (ARD, Miller-Group)
Max Planck India Mobility Grant - Satya Pal Nehra (ARD, Miller-Group)
Visiting Miller Professor of the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Premio Rey Jaime I 2014 of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Fundación Valenciana de Estudios Avanzados - Angel Rubio (Theory)
Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - Melanie Schnell (CCM)
2013
Humboldt Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Gaston Corthey (ARD, Miller-Group)
Arnold Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Martin Eckstein (CMD, Theory)
Helene Lange Prize of the EWE Foundation and the University of Oldenburg - Melanie Schnell (CCM)
2012
Synergy Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - Andrea Cavalleri (CMD, QCMD)
Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)
2011
Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society - Isabella Gierz (CMD, QCMD)
McNeil Medal for Public Awareness of Science. Awarded by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for his dedication to the promotion of science throughout his career and as a founder of "Science Rendezvous" - R. J. Dwayne Miller (ARD, Miller-Group)