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Our division member Stefan Dickopf receives the Otto Haxel Prize of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University for his excellent master thesis entitled "Design, installation and characterisation of a microwave transmission line for driving the transitions of the ³He⁺ hyperfine structure in a Penning trap".
The prize for the best experimental master thesis is endowed with 500 €.

We cordially congratulate Stefan on receiving this distinction of his scientific work.

Further information:

• Full text of master thesis: PuRe 

Our Max Planck Fellow Professor Achim Schwenk  of TU Darmstadt has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant  by the European Research Council (ERC).
His research project "Exploring the Universe through Strong Interactions" (EUSTRONG) will be funded with around 2.3 million euros over a period of 5 years. The aim of the EUSTRONG project is to investigate the Strong Interaction, one of the four fundamental forces of nature, in the universe.

This is already the second ERC grant for Achim Schwenk. We cordially congratulate him on receiving this distinction!

Please read more in the press releases of the MPIK , the TU Darmstadt  and the ERC .