Zeiss Ph.D. Award in Modern Optics
On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Carl Zeiss in 2016 the ZEISS company together with the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena offered the "ZEISS Ph.D. Award in Modern Optics". The prize is sponsored by ZEISS with €3,000. The aim is to support doctoral projects which are highly relevant for the development and application of modern optics, optoelectronics or photonics. The prize is awarded for the outstanding scientific research and technological implementation of aspects of this field.
Information leaflet/Award Guidelines pdf, 38 kb · de(in German only)
Announcement of the prize for 2025pdf, 152 kb · de Deadline: 24th January 2025
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2024
M.Sc. Marijn Rikers
Institute of Solid State Physics
for his doctoral project "Manipulation of magnetic dipole transitions using dielectric metasurfaces" -
2023
Marco Hanft from Zeiss AG hands out the ZEISS PhD Award in Modern Optics 2023 to M.Sc. Sebastian Klimmer (right).
Image: Andrey YershovM.Sc. Sebastian Klimmer
Institute of Solid State Physics
for his doctoral project "Nonlinear optics with out-of-plane excitons in layered materials integrated on metasurfaces" -
2022
Dr. Michael Kempe (right) and the Dean, Prof. Christian Spielmann, gives the Zeiss PhD Award in Modern Optics to Anindita Dasgupt
Image: Falk RonnebergerM.Sc. Anindita DasguptaExternal link
Institute of Applied Optics and Biophysics and Leibniz Instite of Photonic Technology
for her doctoral project "Optimizing optical recordings of cell dynamics using correlativ SIM ans STED microscopy" -
2021
Awarding of the ZEISS PhD Award in Modern Optics 2021 to Marta Gilaberte Basset by Marco Hanft from Carl ZEISS AG
Image: Falk RonnebergerM.Sc. Marta Gilaberte Basset
Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics
for her doctoral project "Quantum imaging with undetected photons" -
2020
Marco Hanft from CARL ZEISS AG is awarding the ZEISS Ph.D. Award in Modern Optics 2020 to M.Sc. Felix Wiesner.
Image: Volker HelmigM.Sc. Felix Wiesner
Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
for his doctoral project "Dreidimensional, materialaufgelöste Kohärenztomographie mit extrem ultravioletter Strahlung" -
2019
Dr. Rudolf von Bünau (left) and the Dean Prof. Dr. Wipf (right) hand out the ZEISS Ph.D. Award in Modern Optics 2019 to M.Sc. Wilhelm Eschen
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2018
M.Sc. Johannes Stock
Image: Falk RonnebergerM.Sc. Johannes Stock
Institute of Applied Physics
for his doctoral project on holistic simulation of optical systems -
2017
Jan Reislöhner
Image: Jan NathanaelM.Sc. Jan Reislöhner
Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics
for his doctoral project on attosecond laser physics -
2016
M.Sc. Martin Gebhardt
Image: Jan-Peter KasperM.Sc. Martin Gebhardt
Institute of Applied Physics
for his doctoral project on the development of ultrafast high-power laser sources in the mid infrared range