Distinctions
2024
Pei-Lun He
Tenure-track Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zheng Gong
Tenure-track Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciencies, Institute of Theoretical Physics in Peking
Xiaofei Shen
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the School of Physics, Peking University
2023
Qingzheng Lyu
Associate Professor at the Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics
Dominik Lentrodt
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society [press]
Christoph H. Keitel
Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics [press]
2022
Antonino Di Piazza
Joint call as tenured full professor at the University of Rochester and as
distinguished scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics [press]
Yuanbin Wu
Full Professor at Nankai University
Zheng Gong
Matter and Radiation at Extremes Young Scientist Award [press]
2021
Jörg Evers
Physics World Top 10 Breakthrough 2021 [IOP] [publication]
Adriana Pálffy-Buß
W2 professorship call to University of Würzburg [press]
2020
Adriana Pálffy-Buß
Inclusion in the DFG's Heisenberg Programme [press]
2019
Adriana Pálffy-Buß
Röntgen Prize by Justus Liebig University Giessen [press]
Luling Jin
Associate Professor at Hubei University
Meng Wen
Associate Professor at Hubei University
Yue-Yue Chen
Tenure-track Full Professor at Shanghai Normal University
Adriana Pálffy-Buß
Hertha Sponer Prize by the German Physical Society (DPG) [press]
2018
Jörg Evers
Außerplanmäßiger Professor at Heidelberg University
Kilian Heeg
Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers [press]
Kilian Heeg
ESRF Young Scientist Award by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility [press]
Sven Ahrens
Associate Professor at Shanghai Normal University
2017
Jian-Xing Li
Tenure-track Full Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Jonas Gunst
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society [press]
Kilian Heeg
IBAME Young Scientist Award by the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect
2016
Robert Fleischhaker
Professorship at FH Aachen after PhD and seven years of industry experience
Sebastian Meuren
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society [press]
(followed by postdoc positions at Princeton University and Stanford University and a tenure track for research director at LULI (Paris))
2015
Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan
Outstanding Referee Certificate by American Physical Society
Wen-Te Liao
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at National Central University in Taiwan
Mihai Macovei
Director of the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
2014
Felix Mackenroth
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society
Heiko Bauke
Certificate of Reviewing Excellence by Elsevier
Jörg Evers
Röntgen Prize by Justus Liebig University Giessen
2012
Ni Cui
Tenured Associate Professor at Jinan University, Guangzhou
Markus Kohler
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society
2011
Carsten Müller
W3 call (chair) to Düsseldorf University
Sebastian Meuren
Otto Haxel Prize by Heidelberg University
Carsten Müller
Teaching Prize of Heidelberg University's Physics Faculty
Ben King
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society (followed by an associate professorship at University of Plymouth)
Chengpu Liu
Research Assistant Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (followed one year later by a professorship at State Key Lab of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai, China)
2010
Jörg Evers
Election to the Kollegiat of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Christian Buth
Tenure-track appointment as scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
Jörg Evers
Dulger Prize by Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2009
Jörg Evers
Outstanding Referee Certificate by American Physical Society
Dieter Bauer
W3 call (chair) to Rostock University
Atif Shahbaz
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at GC University Lahore
Erik Lötstedt
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society (followed by an associate professorship at University of Tokyo)
2008
Adriana Pálffy
Fast-track Programme by Robert Bosch Foundation
Martin Kiffner
Otto Hahn Medal by Max Planck Society
Ulrich D. Jentschura
Tenure-track Assistant Professorship Call at Missouri University in Rolla (followed by full professorship)
Christoph H. Keitel
Outstanding Referee Certificate by American Physical Society
2007
Andrey Surzhykov
Helmholtz group leader at GSI (followed by W3 chair call to TU Braunschweig)
Peter Orth
Otto Haxel Prize of the University of Heidelberg (followed by full professorship at Saarland University)
2006
Manfred Lein
W2 Call as Professor to Kassel University (followed by W3 chair call to Hanover University)
Manfred Lein
Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
Jörg Evers
Institute of Physics: Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group PhD Prize (1st prize)
Christoph H. Keitel
Fellow of Optical Society of America
2005
Ulrich D. Jentschura
Heisenberg Stipend
2003
Christoph H. Keitel
Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society
Dieter Bauer
Heisenberg Stipend (extended until 2008)