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Awards

PTBnews 1.2022
19.01.2022

Mathias Richter
Mathias Richter, Head of Division 7 Temperature and Synchrotron Radiation, was elected to the Council of the German Physical Society (DPG).

Piet Schmidt
Piet Schmidt, Head of the QUEST Institute at PTB, was appointed as a “Fellow of the American Physical Society” (APS) in recognition of his achievements in the development of quantum logic spectroscopy techniques and their application in high-precision measurements of optical transitions in atoms, molecules and highly charged ions.

Ekkehard Peik
Ekkehard Peik,Head of Department 4.4 Time and Frequency, received the “I. I. Rabi Award 2021” from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in recognition of his achievements in the development of optical clocks and in tests of fundamental physics.

Uwe Sterr
Uwe Sterr, a staff member of Department 4.3 Quantum Optics and Unit of Length, received the “European Frequency and Time Award” (EFTA Award) in 2020 in the field of ultrastable lasers for optical frequency standards and highest resolution spectroscopy.

Peter Micke
Peter Micke, a post-doc at the QUEST Institute at PTB, won the SAMOP dissertation prize of the German Physical Society (DPG) for his doctoral thesis entitled “Quantum Logic Spectroscopy of Highly Charged Ions”.