Nicola Spaldin received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

At the Hamburg Planetarium, the materials researcher from ETH Zurich was honored for her outstanding work, which led to the development of a new class of materials - the so-called multiferroics. These could enable forward-looking applications in microelectronics, such as the construction of ultra-fast data storage devices or highly sensitive sensors.

11.11.2022 by Susanne Blatter
(@Claudia Höhne)

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Verleihung Hamburger Preis für Theoretische Physik 2022 — Im Rahmen der Preisverleihung (von links): Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, Vorsitzender des DESY-Direktoriums, Prof. Dr. Joël Mesot, Präsident der ETH Zürich, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Vorstandsvorsitzende der Joachim Herz Stiftung, Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, Preisträgerin 2022, Katharina Fegebank, 2. Bürgermeisterin und Wissenschaftssenatorin Hamburgs, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Präsident der Universität Hamburg und Prof. Volker Schomerus, Juryvorsitzender für die Preisvergabe, leitender Wissenschaftler am DESY und Sprecher des Wolfgang Pauli Centre. (@Claudia Höhne)

The Joachim Herz Foundation has been awarding the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics since 2010 together with the Wolfgang Pauli Centre of DESY and Universität Hamburg, the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the two Clusters of Excellence at Universität Hamburg: "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" and "Quantum Universe". The prize of 137,036 euros for outstanding research achievements in theoretical physics is one of the highest endowed awards for physics in Germany. The prize sum is an allusion to Sommerfeld's fine structure constant, which plays an important role in theoretical physics.