Habilitation Prize of the Friedrich Schiller University

    The  Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität de is awarding a prize for the best habilitation thesis one times a year.
    Since 2020 the habilitation prize is named Rowena Morse Prize and inludes also junior professors and leaders of junior research groups as candidates. The prize is donated with €5,000.


    The following members of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy were awarded with the habilitation prize:

    • 1999

      PD Dr. Jürgen Blum
      Astrophysikalisches Institut und Universitätssternwarte
      "Planetesimalentstehung im frühen Sonnensystem - Beiträge der Laborastrophysik"

    • 2003

      Dr. habil. Wolf Gero Schmidt
      Institut für Festkörpertheorie und Theoretische Optik
      "Semiconductor surfaces and their optical properties calculated from first principles"

    • 2010

      Dr. habil. Ulrich Sperhake
      Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut
      "Numerical simulations of astrophysical black-hole binaries"

    • 2017

      PD Dr. Claudia SchnohrExternal link
      Institut für Festkörperphysik
      "      Complex semiconductors: From atomic-scale structure to band gap bowing"

      PD Dr. Claudia Schnohr