Every year the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität de awards an habilitation prize for outstanding performance. Since 2021 the prize was named Rowena Morse Prize and opened to a wider field of young post docs like Junior professors or Leaders of Research Groups.
The prize winners of the Faculty of Physic and Astronomy are:
- 1999
PD Dr. Jürgen BlumExternal linkAstrophysical Institute and University Observatory
"Planetesimalentstehung im frühen Sonnensystem - Beiträge der Laborastrophysik" - 2003
Dr. habil. Wolf Gero Schmidt
Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Optics
"Semiconductor surfaces and their optical properties calculated from first principles" - 2010
Dr. habil. Ulrich Sperhake
Institute of Theoretical Physics
"Numerical simulations of astrophysical black-hole binaries" - 2017
PD Dr. Claudia Schnohr
Institute of Solid State Physics
"Complex semiconductors: From atomic-scale structure to band gap bowing"
Picture of the Awarding Ceremonyjpeg, 126 kb · de - 2023
Junior Professor Dr. Giancarlo Soavi de
Institute of Solid State Physics
for his research in the field of nonlinear optics and ultrafas spectroscopy of quantum limited systems