Kaiser Friedrich Research Prize
The Kaiser Friedrich Research Prize promotes outstanding research and development work in the field of optical technologies. It is awarded every two years to German scientists from research and industry with a special focus. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros.
It supports trend-setting results from research that reveal a high innovation potential for technical and scientific developments and a clear perspective for implementation in new products or processes.
The prize donor is Jochen Stöbich, Managing Director of Stöbich Brandschutz GmbH in Goslar. With the competition, Stöbich wants to promote applied research as a joint task of medium-sized companies in the field of optical technologies. He is convinced that the tool light, as a real cross-sectional technology, has the potential for important innovations in research and industry and is therefore of great importance for the future of Germany as a business location.
Together with the TU Clausthal , PhotonicNet , the Lower Saxony competence network for optical technologies , is organizing the invitation to tender for the Kaiser Friedrich Research Prize, as well as the award ceremony as part of the Photonics Innovation Forum in Goslar's Kaiserpfalz .
Award winners
- 2003: Topic: Optical sensors
- 1st prize: Thomas Kleine-Ostmann, TU Braunschweig (Martin Koch group)
- 2nd prize: Stefan Hoffmann, Ruhr University Bochum (Martin Hofmann group)
- 2005: Topic: Biophotonics
- Alexander Heisterkamp, Laser Center Hannover eV
- 2007: Topic: Photon Sources
- "Transparent OLED Displays": Patrick Görrn, Jens Meyer, Michael Kröger, Hans-Hermann Johannes, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Thomas Riedl, Technical University of Braunschweig (Institute for High Frequency Technology )
- 2009: Topic: Optical sensors
- "Compact and calibration-free gas sensors with GaSb -based surface-emitting laser diodes ":
- Alexander Bachmann, Kaveh Kashani-Shirazi, Markus-Christian Amann (Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University of Munich)
- Jia Chen, Andreas Hangauer and Rainer Strzoda (Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Power & Sensor Systems, Munich)
- "Compact and calibration-free gas sensors with GaSb -based surface-emitting laser diodes ":
- 2011: Topic: Optical sensors
- Wolfgang Petrich, head of the biophotonics working group at the Institute for Physics at Heidelberg University
- 2013: Topic: Photonics4Energy
- Rolf Brendel and Jan Hendrik Petermann, Institute for Solar Energy Research
- 2015: Topic: LED technologies
- Markus Bröll, Jens Müller, Andreas Rudolph, Karl Ernst Christaller, Claus Jäger, Bianka Schnabel and Martin Behringer, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH Regensburg
- 2018: Topic: Photonic Technologies for the Digital Laboratory
- Kort Bremer, Hanover Center for Optical Technologies
- Jürgen Popp , Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies Jena and Institute for Physical Chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University Jena