Prize Winners 2019
Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize
On December 5, 2019, during the 11th HZB user meeting, the Association of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin awarded the Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize 2019 to Dr. Simon Krause from the University of Groningen for his work "Negative gas adsorption in flexible metal-organic frameworks", which he defended at the TU Dresden, and to Dr. Felix Willems of the Max Born Institute in Berlin for his work "Ultrafast optical demagnetization dynamics in thin elemental films and alloys: Foundations of and results from helicity-dependent and time-resolved XUV spectroscopy", defended at the TU Berlin. In his work Simon Krause had investigated the gas adsorption behaviour in porous solids. Felix Willems, on the other hand, worked on ultrafast magnetic switching processes and their analysis using spectroscopic methods.