Prize of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation

Guidelines for the prize award

The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation offer a prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of optical measuring technology. Works in the field of coordinate measuring technology or dimensional metrology are favoured.

The prize is donated with €1,500. The award of the prize takes place at the Alumni Day (official certificate presentation ceremony).

If there is no application to honour a doctoral thesis, the prize can be awarded to a diploma or master thesis in the field of optical measuring technology. In that case the prize is donated with €1,000.

All graduates, who finished her/his thesis in the last year and the university teachers of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy are eligible to apply for the prize and nominate candidates. Together with the application submit, please, the thesis, a list of publications and a CV of the candidate.

Previous Prize Winners

2024

The award of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation 2024 got Dr. Thorsten Goebel from Dr.-Ing.Bernd-Jochen Schniewind (mid), Chair of the Werth Foundation.

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Dr. Thorsten Albert Goebel
Institute of Applied Physics and Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering
for his doctoral thesis "Multi-channel spectral filtering by femtosecond written fiber Bragg gratings".

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2023

Dr. Martin Landmann
Institute of Applied Physics and Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering
for his doctoral thesis "Schnelle und genaue 3D-Formvermessungmittels Musterprojektion und Stereobildaufnahme im thermischen InfrarotExternal link".

The Prize of the Dr.-Ing Siegfried Werth Foundation 2023 was awarded to Dr. Martin Landmann (right) from Bernd Marshaus (Werth Foundation, in the mid).

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2022

Dr. Andreas Stark
Institute of Applied Optica und Biophysics
for his doctoral thesis "Untersuchungen zu 3D-Messverfahren auf der Basis von Speckle-BeleuchtungExternal link"

The Prize of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth-Stiftung 2022 was awarded to Dr. Andreas Stark (middle).

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2021

Dr. -Ing. Thomas SiefkeExternal link
Institut für Angewandte Physik
for his dissertation "Entwicklung von Drahtgitterpolarisatoren für Anwendungen im ultravioletten bis in den vakuumultravioletten Spektralbereich"

online awarding of the prize of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation to Dr. Thomas Siefke

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2020

The Vice Dean Prof. Holger Gies is awarding the Prize of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth foundation to Dr. Martin Heusinger

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Dr. rer.nat. Martin HeusingerExternal link
Institute of Applied Physics
for his doctoral thesis "Untersuchungen zu deterministischem und stochastischem Streulicht in hocheffizienten binären Beugungsgittern"External link
2019

Dr. rer. nat. Sina SaraviExternal link
Institute of Applied Physics
for his doctoral thesis "Photon -pair generation in photonic crystal waveguidesExternal link"

Bernd Marshaus (left) awards the prize of the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth foundation 2019 to Dr. Sina Saravi.

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2018

Dr. rer. nat. Stefan HeistExternal link
Institute of Applied Physics
for his dissertation "Hochgeschwindigkeits-3D-Formvermessung mittels aperiodischer Sinus-Muster"

Arno Fink (links), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung, und der Dekan, Prof. Wipf bei der Preisverleihung

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2017

Dr. rer .nat. Arno KlenkeExternal linkHelmholtz Institute Jena
for his dissertation "Performance Scaling of laser amplifiers via coherent combination of ultrashort pulses"

Der Dekan, Prof. Andreas Wipf (rechts) und Arno Fink (links), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung

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2016

Dr. rer.nat. Angela Klein
Institute of Applied Physics
for her dissertation "Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy: From Single-Tip to Dual-Tip OperationExternal link"

Der Dekan, Prof. Paulus (links) und Arno Fink (rechts), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung

Image: Falk Ronneberger
2015

Dr. rer. nat. Michael Zürch
Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
for his dissertation "Coherent High Resolution Imaging of Artificial and Biological Specimens Using Compact Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Sources" (published by Springer-Verlag)External link

Der Dekan, Prof. Paulus (rechts) und Arno Fink (links), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung

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2014

Dr. rer.nat.Marcus Große
Institute of Applied Optics
for his dissertation "Untersuchungen zur korrelationsbasierten Punktzuordnung in der stereophotogrammetrischen 3D-Objektvermessung unter Verwendung von Sequenzen strukturierter Beleuchtung"

Der Dekan, Prof. Paulus (rechts) und Arno Fink (links), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung

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2013

Dr. rer. nat. Jens Ulrich Thomas
Institute of Applied Physics
for his dissertation "Mode control with ultrashort pulse written fiber Bragg gratingsExternal link"

Dr. Jens Thomas und Dekan Prof. Gerhard Paulus bei der Preisverleihung
2012

Dr. rer. nat. Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin
Institute of Applied Physics
for her dissertation "Design, Realisierung und Charakterisierung von optischen Metamaterialien mit negativer BrechzahlExternal link "

Der Dekan, Prof. Brügmann (Mitte) und Arno Fink (rechts), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung
2011

Dr. rer. nat. Marco Hornung
Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
for his dissertation "Mosaik-Gitter-Kompressor für Femtosekunden-Laserimpulse hoher Energie"

Dr. Ralph Christoph (links), Geschäftsführer der Werth Messtechnik GmbH, und Arno Fink (rechts), Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Stiftung , bei der Preisverleihung
2010

Dipl.-Phys. Daniel Weigel (2010)

Dipl.-Phys. Daniel Weigel
Institute of Applied Optics
for his Diploma thesis "Auflösungssteigerung bei optischen Rastermikroskopen mit Hilfe eines bildinvertierenden Interferometers"