School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Dissertation Prize in Physics

The Physics Department of the University of Wuppertal, together with the Scientific Institution Physics of the Heinrich Heine University, annually awards the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Dissertation Prize, which is supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation. A competition is held to select the best dissertation in the field of physics.

The best applicants, selected by a jury, are invited to a decision colloquium where they can present their scientific work and compete for the prize. Here, too, a jury decides who can take home the prize.

Invitation to the Current Decision Colloqium

The decision colloquium for the WEH Dissertation Award 2023 will take place at the beginning of the lecture period in the winter semester 23/24 at Bergische Universität. The exact date will be announced.

Previous award winners and decision colloquia

Dr. Manuel Alejandro Escobedo Sánchez (HHU): Digital Fourier Microscopy and its application to soft matter systems

Link to the thesis here.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Egelhaaf

Dr. Federico Grasselli (HHU): Quantum Cryptography: from Key Distribution to Conference Key Agreement

Link to the thesis here.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Bruß

Overview of the decision colloquium here.

Dr. Vural Kaymak (HHU): Ultrahigh energy density physics and ion acceleration in nano- and microstructures.

Link to the PhD thesis here.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. A. Pukhov

Overview of the decision colloquium here.

Dr. Jan Küchler (BUW): Search for Partners of the Top Quark with the ATLAS Experiment

Link to the thesis here.

Supervision: Prof. Dr. P. Mättig

Overview of the decision colloquium here.

Prize Commission

BUW members: Prof. Dr. R. Hentschke (Chair), Prof. Dr. Knechtli, Dr. Julian Rautenberg, Melike Karasu HHU members: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Löwen (Vice Chair), Prof. Dr. Mathias Getzlaff, Dr. Hermann Kampermann, Karin Hoops

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