Nano Innovation Award
The Nano Innovation Award is awarded annually by the Center for NanoScience together with the CeNS spin-offs attocube systems, ibidi, Nanion Technologies, and NanoTemper Technologies, to honor junior researchers at Bavarian research institutions for excellent research in the nanosciences. Outstanding PhD students in the field of nanosciences/nano(bio)technology are invited to apply. Research projects should offer some potential for innovative applications.
Prize money:
1. Prize: € 4,000
2. Prize: € 3,000
3. Prize: € 2,000
Finalists 2024:
- Henrik Gaß & Lukas Müller │ AG Halik, FAU: Smart rust – A new way to clean water
- Andreas Gritsch│ AG Reiserer, TUM: Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides and cavities
- Philipp Harder │ AG Özcale-Edelmann, TUM: A laser-driven microrobot for thermal stimulation of single cells
- Cornelia Holler │ AG Sandoghdar, MPI of the Science of Light: μKiss: delivery of nanoparticles and small molecules to the near-field of the single cell with micrometer spatial and millisecond temporal control
- Leonie Wittmann │ AG Schwaminger, TUM: Millifluidic Process Development for the Magnetophoretic Fractionation
of Heterogeneous Yeast Cell Cultures by Age
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1. Prize: Cornelia Holler │ AG Sandoghdar, MPI of the Science of Light: μKiss: delivery of nanoparticles and small molecules to the near-field of the single cell with micrometer spatial and millisecond temporal control
2. Prize
Andreas Gritsch│ AG Reiserer, TUM: Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides and cavities
3. Prize
Leonie Wittmann │ AG Schwaminger, TUM: Millifluidic Process Development for the Magnetophoretic Fractionation of Heterogeneous Yeast Cell Cultures by Age
1. Prize
Stephan Müssig (AG Mandel, FAU): Development of supraparticles suitable for magnetic identification tags
2. Prize
Pauline Kolbeck (AG Lipfert, LMU): DNA Origami Fiducial for 3D Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging
3. Prize
Tomás Santiago-Cruz (AG Chekhova, MPI of the Science of Light): Entangled photons generation from quantum optical metasurfaces
1. Prize
Tobias Boolakee, group of Prof. Peter Hommelhoff (FAU Erlangen)
2. Prize
Maximilian Ochs, group of Prof. Bert Hecht (University of Würzburg)
3. Prize
Tim Schröder, group of Prof. Philip Tinnefeld (LMU Munich)
Awardees 2021 (The virtual award ceremony 2021, including the presentations of the finalists, can be watched 
here)
1. Prize
Christian Sigl, group of Prof. Hendrik Dietz (TU Munich)
2. Prize
Jan Felber, group of Dr. Thorn-Seshold (LMU Munich)
3. Prize
Jun Zhang, group of Prof. Clausen-Schaumann (Hochschule München)
Awardees 2020 (The award ceremony 2020, including the presentations of the finalists, can be watched here: https://youtu.be/NMqMEFnAlAo)
1. Prize
Dr. Bernhard Bohn, group of Prof. Jochen Feldmann (LMU Munich)
2. Prize
Linh Nguyen, group of Prof. Tim Liedl (LMU Munich)
3. Prize
Enno Krauss, group of Prof. Bert Hecht (University of Würzburg)
Nano Innovation Award for master's thesis
Sabrina Thomä, group of Jun.-Prof. Mirijam Zobel (Universität Bayreuth)
Nano Innovation Award for PhD thesis
Thomas Hümmer, group of Prof. Theodor Hänsch (LMU Munich/MPI of Quantum Optics)
Nano Innovation Award for master's thesis
Konstantin Ditzel, group of Dr. Philipp Paulitschke/Chair Prof. Joachim Rädler (LMU)
Nano Innovation Award for PhD thesis
Dr. Klaus Wagenbauer, group of Prof. Hendrik Dietz (TU Munich)
Nano Innovation Award for master's thesis
Florian Schüder, group of Prof. Ralf Jungmann (MPI of Biochemistry/LMU)
Nano Innovation Award for PhD thesis
Stefan Datz, group of Prof. Thomas Bein (LMU)
Peter Röttgermann, group of Prof. Joachim Rädler (LMU)
Patrick Vogel, group of Prof. Peter Jacob (University of Würzburg)
CeNS Innovation Award for master's thesis
Aurora Manzi, group of Prof. Jochen Feldmann (LMU)
CeNS Innovation Award for PhD thesis
Christof Mast, group of Prof. Dieter Braun (LMU)