Habilitation Prize of the Friedrich Schiller University

The  Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität de is awarding a prize for the best habilitation thesis one times a year.
Since 2020 the habilitation prize is named Rowena Morse Prize and inludes also junior professors and leaders of junior research groups as candidates. The prize is donated with €5,000.


The following members of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy were awarded with the habilitation prize:

  • 1999

    PD Dr. Jürgen Blum
    Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitätssternwarte
    "Planetesimalentstehung im frühen Sonnensystem - Beiträge der Laborastrophysik"

  • 2003

    Dr. habil. Wolf Gero Schmidt
    Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik
    "Semiconductor surfaces and their optical properties calculated from first principles"

  • 2010

    Dr. habil. Ulrich Sperhake
    Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut
    "Numerical simulations of astrophysical black-hole binaries"

  • 2017

    PD Dr. Claudia SchnohrExternal link
    Institut für Festkörperphysik
    "    Complex semiconductors: From atomic-scale structure to band gap bowing"

    PD Dr. Claudia Schnohr