Prize Talks
With its awards, the DPG honours outstanding scientific achievements in the field of physics in a special way. The following prize winners will give their prize talks at the DPG Spring Meeting in Dresden:
Monday, 9 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0002
Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany / University of Oxford, Great Britain
Stern-Gerlach-Medal 2026
is speaking about
"Driven Quantum Materials: Controlling Emergent Phenomena away from Equilibrium"
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0002
Kurt Kremer, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Max-Planck-Medal 2026
is speaking about
"Polymers / Soft Matter as Model Systems for Physics"
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0004
Anna Roslawska, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
Gaede-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Optics of single molecules explored with sub-nm precision"
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 09:30 - 10:30, HÜL/S386
Herbert Dreiner, University of Bonn, Germany
Georg-Kerschensteiner-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Die Bonner Physikshow -- ein Öffentlichkeitsprojekt mit Studierenden"
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0003
Roderich Moessner, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Max-Born-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Fractionalisation, fractals and strong coupling QED in spin liquids"
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 17:20 - 18:00, BAR/SCHÖ
Fleming Bruckmaier, QuantumDiamonds GmbH, Munich, Germany
Technology-Transfer-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Quantum Sensing: From Lab to Market"
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0002
Marcel Reutzel, University of Göttingen, Germany / Marburg University, Germany
Walter-Schottky-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Observation of Floquet states in graphene"
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 13:00 - 13:45, HSZ/0003
Maria Azhar, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Hertha-Sponer-Prize 2026
is speaking about
"Knots and Links in Magnetism"
► The abstracts of the prize talks can be found in the conference programme in the PRV part and in the Physics Education Division.

