Hans Thirring Prize

The Faculty of Physics awards an annual prize for an outstanding dissertation from the previous academic year, starting in 2013.

Laureates

2023/2024
Manuel Längle
"Low-energy ion irradiation on 2D materials - from single defects to few-atom noble gas clusters"

Thomas Mieling
"Gupta-Bleuler Quantization of the Electromegnetic Field in Curved Space-Times with Applications to Gravitational Photon Interferometry"

2022/2023
Sebastian Ecker
"Noise-resilient entanglement distribution in high-dimensional state spaces"

Dario Fiore Mosca
"Multipolar Interactions and Multipolar Order in Osmate Double Perovskites"

2021/2022
Maximilian Dollner
"Assessment of the global distribution of coarse-mode aerosol and clouds with large-scale in situ aircraft observations"

2020/2021
Iurii Chubak
"Novel states of matter for topological polymers"

2019/2020
Yaakov Y. Fein
"Long-baseline universal matter-wave interferometry"

2018/2019
Michele Reticcioli
"Polarons on Transition-Metal Oxide Surfaces"

2017/2018
Dominik Stolzenburg
"How clusters grow to particles: Particle size distribution and growth rate measurements with a DMA-train"

2016/2017
Jonas Schmöle
"Development of a micromechanical proof-of-principle experiment for measuring the gravitational force of milligram masses"

2015/2016
Nadine Asenbaum-Dörre
"Time-domain matter-wave interferometry with cluster and large molecules"

2014/2015
Tim-Torben Paetz
"On characteristic Cauchy problems in general relativity"

Piotr Pietrulewicz
"Variable flavor scheme for final state jets"

2013/2014
Peter Asenbaum
"Cavity cooling of silicon nanoparticles in high-vacuum"

Fabio Costa
"Local and causal structures in quantum theory"

2012/2013
Patrick Otto Ludl
"Implications of finite family symmetry groups on the leptonic and scalar sector"