Early Career prize

With the Young Talent Award (constitution), the DGKK acknowledges extraordinary scientific achievements by junior scientists in the field of crystal growth.

The award, which is endowed with 2500€, is aimed at junior scientists (maximum age of 35 years), who already presented their research results on a DGKK working group meeting or the annual DKT conference and who have been proposed to the DGKK board by their supervisor or by DGKK members with a testimonial including a achievement evaluation and a publication list.

Proposals for the DGKK Young Talent Award 2024 can now be submitted to the chair of the DGKK, Andreas Erb.

Submission Deadline was December 1st 2024.

Honour to the awardee takes place at the DKT 2025 in Frankfurt. 

Previous Awardees of the DGKK- Young Talent Award

2024 - Ta-Shun Chou, IKZ Berlin

2021 - Kevin Peter Gradwohl, IKZ Berlin

2020 - Robin Lang, ISE Freiburg

2019 - Dirk Johannes Kok (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin) & Pascal Puphal (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland)

2018 - Matthias Marx, RWTH Aachen

2017 - Ludwig Stockmeier, Fraunhofer THM, Freiberg

2016 - Oliver Supplie, TU Ilmenau

2015 - Anton Jesche, Uni Augsburg

2014 - Saicharan Aswartham, IFW Dresden

2013 - Kaspar Dadzis, SWIN Freiberg

2013 - Benjamin Reuters, RWTH Aachen

2012 - Birgit Kallinger, Fraunhofer IISB, Erlangen

2011 - Robert Heimburger, IKZ, Berlin

2010 - Henning Döscher, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

2007 - Helene Kasjanow, ETP Hannover

2007 - Götz Meisterernst, LMU München

2005 - Dimitri Souptel, IWF Dresden

2005 - Michael Block, TU Berlin

2005 - Stephan Hussy, Fraunhofer IISB, Erlangen

2004 - Nicoleta Kaluza, Forschungszentrum Jülich

2003 - Bernhard Birkmann, Fraunhofer IISB, Erlangen

2003 - Carsten Busse, RWTH Aachen