Successful Year for OPTIMAS‘ Young Researchers

2015 was a particular successful year for the young researchers of the State Research Center OPTIMAS - altogether five awards were achieved for scientific work:

Dr. Michael Höning:

Promotionspreis der Alumni-Vereinigung des Fachbereichs Physik for his dissertation "Many-body phases of open Rydberg systems and signatures of topology in quantum gases"
(advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Fleischhauer).
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Dr. Philipp Pirro:

Promotionspreis des Freundeskreises der TU Kaiserslautern for his dissertation "Lineare und nichtlineare Spinwelleninteraktionen in magnetischen Mikrostrukturen"
(advisor: Prof. Dr. Burkard Hillebrands).

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Dr. Benedikt Müller:

Promotionspreis der Kreissparkassen-Stiftung for his dissertation "Relaxationsdynamik spinaufgelöster Elektronenverteilungen in laserangeregten Metallen"
(advisor: Prof. Dr. Bärbel Rethfeld).

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Dipl.-Phys. Felix Schmidt

Nachwuchspreis der Alumni-Vereinigung des Fachbereichs Physik for his diploma thesis "Kühlen, Fangen und Detektieren einzelner Cäsiumatome in einer magneto-optischen Falle"
(advisor: Prof. Dr. Artur Widera).

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Dipl.-Phys. Oliver Thomas

Nachwuchspreis der Alumni-Vereinigung des Fachbereichs Physik diploma thesis "Langzeitanregung von rydbergblockierten ultrakalten Quantengasen"
(advisor: Prof. Dr. Herwig Ott).

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The support of young researchers is an integral part of the OPTIMAS mission. This includes the general support for scientific autonomy as well as the nomination for established awards as appreciation of individual excellency.