Scientific excel­lence

The IQST Fellows have received many presti­gi­ous awards including:

  • 5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prizes
  • 3 ERC start­ing grants, 1 ERC Consol­id­ator Grant, 7 ERC advanced grants, 3 ERC Synergy grants & 2 ERC Proof of Concept Grants
  • 2 Alexan­der von Humboldt profess­or­ships
  • a Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award
  • IQST fellows are regularly among the Highly Cited Research­ers™ world­wide
  • together with numer­ous other awards.

Selec­tion of most presti­gi­ous awards, grants and prizes:

2024

  • Harald Giessen, Robert Wichard Pohl Prize

2023

  • Michael Saliba, Helmholtz High Impact Award
  • Tilman Pfau, TOPTICA Senior BEC Award
  • Boris Mizaikoff, Fritz Pregl Medal
  • Tim Langen, ERC Proof of Concept Grant

2022

  • Aparajita Singha, Emmy-Noether-Grant
  • NVision Imaging Techno­lo­gies, Innov­a­tion Radar Prize

2021

  • Tilman Pfau, ERC Advanced Grants

2020

  • Tim Langen, Rudolf-Kaiser Prize
  • Jörg Wrachtrup, Europhys­ics Prize Award
  • Tim Langen, ERC Start­ing Grant

2019

  • Eva Benck­iser, MPI FKF Walter-Schottky-Preis DPG
  • Swabian Instru­ments, Final­ist Deutscher Gründung­s­preis 2019 in the category Start-ups
  • F. Jelezko, M. Plenio, ERC Synergy Grant

2018

  • Swabian Instru­ments, Innov­a­tion­spreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg

2017

  • Jörg Wrachtrup, ERC Advanced Grant

2016

  • Fedor Jelezko and Jörg Wrachtrup, Zeiss Research Award
  • Hans-Peter Büchler, ERC Consol­id­ator Grant

2015

  • Sebastian Loth, ERC Start­ing Grant
  • Bernhard Keimer, ERC Advanced Grant

2014

  • Jörg Wrachtrup, Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award
  • Chris­tof Gebhardt, ERC Start­ing Grant

2013

  • M. Plenio, F. Jelezko, T. Weil, ERC Synergy Grant

2012

  • Jörg Wrachtrup, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • Harald Giessen, ERC Advanced Grant
  • Frank Kirch­hoff, ERC Advanced Grant

2011

  • Bernhard Keimer (2011), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • Jörg Wrachtrup, ERC Advanced Grant

2010

  • Tilman Pfau, ERC Advanced Grant

2009

  • Frank Kirch­hoff (2009), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  • Martin B. Plenio (2009), Alexan­der von Humboldt Profess­or­ship

2008

  • Jochen Mannhart (2008), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

2004

  • Hidenori Takagi (2004), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

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