HZDR Awards
HZDR Awards 2025
Group photo of the award winners with the HZDR Board of Directors. Left to right: Dr. Diana Stiller, Prof. Jörg Steinbach, Dr. Susanne Schöbel, Dr. Santiago Andres Brühlmann, Dr. Martin Walther, Dr. Martin Kreller, Dr. Christopher Heins, Stefan Gatzmaga, Dr. Jochen Teichert, Dr. André Arnold, Petr Murcek, Reinhard Steinbrück, Dr. Tian Ma, Dr. Guangyuan Huang, Dr. Diana Isabel Sandoval Bojorquez, Dr. Hendrik Hessenkemper and Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt
Source: HZDR / A.Wirsig
Special commitment and outstanding achievements of our employees deserve additional recognition. For this reason, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) bestows the following awards every year:
- HZDR Research Award
- HZDR Technology Award
- HZDR Transfer Award
- HZDR Doctoral Award
- HZDR Communications Award
The Board of Directors handed over the awards at a ceremony in the main lecture hall on May 21, 2026.
Research Award
… to Dr. Tian Ma, Dr. Hendrik Hessenkemper, and Dr. Guangyuan Huang (Institute of Fluid Dynamics) for uncovering the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interactions between collective bubble motion and carrier-phase turbulence in dispersed two-phase flows.
Technology Award
… to Dr. Rong Xiang, Stefan Gatzmaga, Petr Murcek, Reinhard Steinbrück, Dr. Jochen Teichert, and Dr. André Arnold (Institute of Radiation Physics) for the development of a particle-free transfer system operating under ultra-high vacuum for sensitive photocathodes used in superconducting electron injectors.
Transfer Award
... to Dr. Martin Kreller, Dr. Santiago Brühlmann, and Dr. Martin Walther (Institute for Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research) for the production of the radionuclides Cu-61, Cu-64, and Cu-67 and the resulting development of new copper-based radiopharmaceuticals in Europe.
Doctoral Awards
… to Dr. Christopher Heins (Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research) for his doctoral thesis on the nonlinear interactions of spin waves in magnetic solids and their potential for neuromorphic hardware.
… to Dr. Susanne Schöbel (Institute of Radiation Physics) for her doctoral thesis on the development and application of ultrashort laser pulses for real-time diagnostics of electron-beam-driven plasma wave accelerators on the micrometer scale.
… to Dr. Diana Isabel Sandoval Bojorquez (Institute for Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research) for her doctoral thesis on the development and implementation of impedance-based sensor platforms for various biomedical applications
Communications Award
… to Dr. Denise Erb (Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research) for organizing and conducting internal events on research and security policy in connection with the HZDR’s peace clause. The Communications Award is donated by the Sponsors' Association of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) e. V.
