The Department of Physics and Astronomy awards a €2,000 faculty prize for the best dissertation completed in the previous two semesters. The prize is sponsored by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation and was first awarded in 2019. Calls for applications are issued each summer; applications must reach the Dean’s Office by 31 August.
Eligibility
All researchers who completed their doctoral studies with the grade summa cum laude in the preceding summer or winter semester may apply.
In addition, primary advisors may nominate scientists who completed their doctoral studies in the preceding summer or winter semester.
Application / nomination materials
A two-page summary of the dissertation’s main scientific results, written by the applicant or nominee, and comprehensible to physicists from all subfields within the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy. This summary is required in all cases.
Please send applications and nominations to dekanat@physik.uni-heidelberg.de
Gergana Dimitrova Borisova
“From State-Selective Probing to Coherent Control: Excited-State Dynamics in Two-electron Systems”
Fabian Hahner
“The Pure Spinor Superfield Formalism and Twisted Supergravity”
Laura Olivera Nieto
“The diffuse Neutrino flux due to interactions of AGN jets with the CMB and the EBL”
Sabine Harribey
“Renormalization in tensor field theory and the melonic fixed point”
Marvin Holten
“From Pauli Blocking to Cooper Pairs: Emergence in a Mesoscopic 2D Fermi Gas”
Martin Braß
“Ab-initio calculations of the electron capture spectrum in ¹⁶³Ho”
Lennart Volz
“Particle imaging for daily in-room image guidance in particle therapy”
Jonas Karthein
“Next-Generation Mass Spectrometry of Exotic Isotopes and Isomers”
Gonzalo Alonso Alvarez
“The Universe as our Lab: Axions and other Light Dark Matter Candidates”
Anna-Christina Eilers
“The Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes”
Dominik Mitzel
“Suche nach neuer Physik in seltenen Charm-Zerfällen bei LHCb”
