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The DGE organizes the granting of the international Ernst-Ruska-Prize since 1980 and the Harald-Rose-Distinguished-Lecture-Awards, sponsored by CEOS, since 2013.

ERNST-RUSKA-PRIZE HARALD ROSE Distinguished Lecture Award sponsored by CEOS GmbH
The Ernst-Ruska-Prize 2025 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy e.V. (DGE) will be granted in accordance with the decision of the Ernst-Ruska-Prize Committee

to the following award winner: Prof. Dr. Knut Müller-Kaspary for his work in the field of: “Momentum-resolved STEM: A track in materials research with life science perspectives”

The award was presented at a ceremony during the Ernst-Ruska-Lecture at the Microscopy Conference 2025 in Karlsruhe on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.

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 The Harald Rose Distinguished Lecture Award 2025 of the German Society for Electron Microscopy e.V. (DGE) was granted on decision of the Award Committee

to the awardee Prof. Dr. Helmut Kohl

for his work on: “Electron microscopical imaging using inelastically scattered electrons”

The prize was awarded at the Microscopy Conference 2025 in Karlsruhe, Thursday, September 4th, 2025.

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Previous Award Winners Previous Award Winners
2023

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Grillo
Advancing the boundaries in quantum electron optics

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2021

Dr. Julia Mahamid
Weiterentwicklung der Elektronentomographie von Zellen
Prof. Dr. David A. Muller
Ultrahochauflösende Elektronenmikroskopie und Spektroskopie

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2019

Dr. Florent Houdellier und Prof. Dr. Claus Ropers
Ultraschnelle Elektronenmikroskopie

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2017

Prof. Dr. Sandra van Aert
Neue Techniken zur optimalen quantitativen Analyse elektronenmikroskopischer Daten
Dr. Radostin Danev
Lochfreie Phasenplatten mit Anwendungen in der Kryo-EM

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2015

Prof. Jian-Min (Jim) Zuo
Methodische Entwicklungen im Bereich der Elektronenbeugung sowie deren Anwendungen
Dr. John Briggs und Prof. Dr. Jürgen Plitzko
Kryo-Elektronenmikroskopie von biologischen Objekten

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2013

Prof. Peter David Nellist
Aberration-corrected Scanning Confocal Transmission Electron Microscopy
Prof. Dr. Holger Stark
Novel Strategies for the Determination of the Molecular and Near-Atomic Structure of Biological Macromolecules

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2011

Dr. Johan Verbeeck
EELS Quantification and Electron Vortex Beams
Prof. Dr. David Mastronarde
A Versatile Software for Tomographic Reconstruction of Electron Microscopy Data Sets

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2009

Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Dr. Takeshi Kasama und Prof. Molly R. McCartney
Electron Holography for Characterisation of Magnetic Fields in sub-100-nm-sized Materials and Devices
Dr. Saori Maki-Yonekura und Dr. Koji Yonekura
Contribution Toward Elucidating the Mechanisms of Biological Macromolecular Machines by Cryo-Electron Microscopy

2007

Prof. Hiroshi Jinnai, Prof. Richard J. Spontak und Prof. Paul A. Midgley
Neue und quantitative Anwendungen der Elektronen-Tomographie zur Untersuchung von nanostrukturierten Materialien

2005

Dr. Andreas Thust und Dr. Wim Coene
Focus Series Reconstruction
Dr. Daniel Studer
Oscillating Knife for Ultramicrotomy

2000    Bettina Böttcher, Stephen Fuller, Marian Mankos
1996     W. Owen Saxton, Denis Chretien
1993     Yashayuha Talmon, Gerd Knoll
1991      Joachim Zach
1989     Hannes Lichte
1987     Marin van Heel
1984     Helmut Kohl
1982     Wolfgang Baumeister
1980     Nigel Unwin, Richard Henderson

 2023

Prof. Dr. Phil E. Batson for his
Experimental and Theoretical Work on High-Resolution STEM and EELS

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2021

Prof. Dr. Joachim Mayer for his
Conceptual work on defining specifications and development of aberration-corrected TEM instruments

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2019

Prof. Dr. David Smith for his
Experimental and theoretical work on high-resolution electron microscopy

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2017

Prof. Dr. Hannes Lichte for his
Long-standing experimental and theoretical work on electron interference

Laudatio in English

2015

Prof. Dr. Angus Kirkland for his
Experimental and theoretical work on image formation and image restoration

2013

Prof. Dr. Peter Schattschneider for his
Experimental and theoretical work on chiral magnetic dichroism with electrons

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DGE funding awards and DGE technology awards since 1989.

DGE Funding Awards DGE Technology Awards
2025

Dr. Sangjun Kang

 2025

Marco Hepp
Ronaldo Curticean
Lidia Kibkalo
Previous Award Winners Previous Award Winners
2023 Dr. Tolga Wagner, Anna Scheld
2021 Dr. Laura Niermann, Dr. Peter Schweizer
2019 Dr. Stephan Jens Majert, Dr. Anna Maria Steyer
2017 Dr. Andreas Müller
2015 Dr. Aaron Kobler
2013 Dr. Roman Grothausmann
2011 Dr. Daniel Wolf
2009 Dr. Juri Barthel
2007 Dr. Johanna Höög
2005 Dr. Petr Formanek, Dr. Stefan Steinbrecher
2003 Dr. Klaus von Benthem, Dr. Rüdiger Meyer
2001 Dr. Rainer Knippelmeyer, Dr. Peter Hartel
1999 Dr. Michael Weingärtner, Dr. Thomas Gemming, Dr. Holger-Ulrich Stark
1997 Dr. Wolfgang Nüchter, Dr. Dirk Preikszas
1995 Dr. Helmut Banzhof, Dr. Andreas Thus
1993 Dr. Karsten Dierksen
1991 Dr. Eckhard Quandt
1989 Dr. Sevil Weinkauf		 2017 Doris Meertens
2013 Stefan Diller
2009 Ing. grad. Rainer Höschen