Wednesday, 12 December, 2012
Special honours for two NIM junior researchers
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities awards scientists …
Monday, 10 December, 2012
Leibniz Award for NIM scientist Vasilis Ntziachristos
DFG awards prize for new optical biomedical imaging technique …
Monday, 19 November, 2012
Hendrik Dietz gets Hoechst Lecturer Prize
NIM researcher honored by Aventis foundation …
Monday, 19 November, 2012
NIM Calendar Production
Witness the production of the NIM calendar 2013! The calendar presents appealing images illustrating and resulting from the NIM research activities. The calendar will be sent to the partners and
Tuesday, 09 October, 2012
Chorafas Prize 2012 for Mathias Weiler
Mathias Weiler of Walther Meißner Institute (WMI) has been awarded the year 2012 prize of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation in recognition of his work on "Magnon-Phonon Interactions in …
Monday, 24 September, 2012
ERC Starting Grant for Alexander Holleitner
NIM member receives highly endowed research grant …
Sunday, 09 September, 2012
NIM-NanoDay attracted great interest
More than a thousand visitors joined the NIM NanoDay at the Deutsches Museum in Munich on September 8th, 2012.
The visitors were offered an interesting stage program with talks of well-known NIM …
Wednesday, 11 July, 2012
NIM Nano movies in final round
Nano Short Film Festival …
Monday, 02 July, 2012
Honor for Ernst Wagner
The NIM scientist has been elected as a member of the scientific advisory board of the Controlled Release Society (CRS). …
Monday, 11 June, 2012
Jochen Feldmann becomes member of Leopoldina
The cluster coordinator of NIM, Prof. Jochen Feldmann (LMU München) has been elected member of the Leopoldina. The Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, founded in 1652, is Germany´s …
Wednesday, 21 March, 2012
NIM-members receive Newcomb Cleveland Prize
The 2011 Newcomb Cleveland Prize is awarded to the NIM members Simon Fölling, Lode Pollet and their colleagues from Harvard University for the research article “Probing the Superfluid to Mott …
Saturday, 17 March, 2012
NanoTemper winner of "Deutscher Innovationspreis"
The Munich company NanoTemper is winner of the German Innovation Prize (“Deutscher Innovationspreis”) in the category “Start-up companies”.
NanoTemper was founded in 2008 as a spin-off from the …
Friday, 09 March, 2012
NIM research project exhibited in the German Bundestag
"From idea to knowledge" …
Wednesday, 22 February, 2012
New issue of the NIM newsletter
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Friday, 17 February, 2012
NanoTech Tokyo 2012
NIM represented by Bavarian Cluster Nanotechnology …
Monday, 13 February, 2012
Thorsten Hugel receives Rudolf-Kaiser-Preis 2011
The NIM member Thorsten Hugel receives the Rudolf-Kaiser prize for his outstanding scientific work concerning the functionality of molecular machines. The prize has a value of 35,000 Euro. It is …
Tuesday, 22 November, 2011
Angelika Vollmar received Cross of the Order of Merit
The new NIM member Prof. Angelika Vollmar was awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer. Vollmar holds the Chair of …
Thursday, 17 November, 2011
ZDF Interview with Dieter Braun
On 4 November 2011 NIM scientist Prof. Dieter Braun received the the Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank prize for the year 2011. Worth a total of 100.000 Euro, it is the highest endowed award for junior …
Thursday, 17 November, 2011
NanoHealth Seoul
NIM delegation travelled to South Korea …
Wednesday, 09 November, 2011
Erwin Schrödinger Preis 2011 for Vasilis Ntziachristos
New NIM member receives highly doted award …
Monday, 07 November, 2011
Hermann Gaub new member of the Council of Scientists of the Human Frontier Science Program
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is a program of funding for frontier research in the life sciences. It is implemented by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization …
Monday, 24 October, 2011
Bustling activity inside cells
NIM member Professor Andreas Bausch (TU München) receives a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of 1.5 million Euros for the research on self-organizing systems. …
Thursday, 20 October, 2011
Hermann E. Gaub elected to EMBO membership
In October 2011 the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) awarded NIM member Hermann E. Gaub together with 45 other life scientists from 14 countries a life-long EMBO membership.
The new …
Friday, 14 October, 2011
Research on the origin of life
Highly endowed award for Professor Dieter Braun …
Monday, 22 August, 2011
Visualizing nanoscience
Within a two week project, master students of media informatics at LMU created 3D animations about current nano research in cooperation with NIM graduate students. …
Sunday, 31 July, 2011
Munich Businessplan Competition
Success for spin-off company neaspec …
Wednesday, 20 July, 2011
Highly endowed European Grant for Prof. Achim Hartschuh
Nanostructures in the spotlight …
Friday, 15 July, 2011
Important EPS Award for Immanuel Bloch
NIM member has been awarded the „2011 Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics“ …
Thursday, 30 June, 2011
Honorary Doctorate for Theodor Hänsch
NIM-PI has been honored …
Thursday, 26 May, 2011
GO Bio Award for three NIM members
On May 26, 2011, three NIM members received the GO Bio Prize, awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF):
Prof. Christian Plank (Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische …
Tuesday, 17 May, 2011
Paolo Lugli elected to "acatech"
NIM member Professor Paolo Lugli, Institute for Nanoelectronics, TU München, has been elected as new member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
acatech …
Thursday, 21 April, 2011
Awards for NIM members
Bestowed at IEEE Joint Conference "IFCS & EFTF" in San Francisco …
Monday, 11 April, 2011
Young Talent TOTAL Award for Enrico da Como
Awarded by the European Materials Research Society …
Friday, 18 March, 2011
Kondo effect lights up
NIM publication highlighted in Physical Review Letters …
Tuesday, 22 February, 2011
Chemical control of the charge state of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
Physical Review B - Rapid Communications, J. A. Garrido et al. …
Tuesday, 18 January, 2011
Paolo Lugli becomes IEEE Fellow
Highest grade of IEEE membership …
Friday, 07 January, 2011
Lars Onsager Lecture Prize for Peter Hänggi
Offered by the Trondheim University (Norway) …
Friday, 17 September, 2010
Opening of the New Electron Microscopy Lab
Since September 2010 a new electron microscope enriches the technical equipment at the Photonics and Optoelectronic´s group at the LMU Munich. During the opening of the one million Euro instrument …
Monday, 09 August, 2010
Munich Business Plan Competition 2010
NIM-member Ulrich Rant and his team on second place …
Thursday, 22 July, 2010
Volkswagen grant for Eva Weig and Doris Heinrich
The VW Foundation granted more than 500.000 Euro to two young LMU scientists. The two physicists Dr. Eva Weig and Dr. Doris Heinrich received the financial support for their common project …
Thursday, 22 July, 2010
New Building for Nanoscience
Opening of the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials …
Tuesday, 06 July, 2010
ERC-Grant for Philip Tinnefeld
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected the NIM researcher Professor Philip Tinnefeld to receive an ERC Starting Grant of about 1.5 million Euro. The bio-physicist works with his …
Monday, 07 June, 2010
Dieter Braun gets ERC Starting Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected the NIM researcher Professor Dieter Braun to receive an ERC Starting Grant. The bio-physicist Dieter Braun works with his group at the …
Thursday, 20 May, 2010
Student Board for NIM graduate program elected
On April 28, 2010, about 40 PhD students belonging to NIM groups elected five representatives for the student board of the NIM Graduate Program (NIM-GP). Two deputies come from …
Wednesday, 19 May, 2010
Prof. Jens Michaelis received Nernst-Haber-Bodenstein Prize
On May 13, 2010, Professor Jens Michaelis, leader of the Nanomechanics group at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität München) and member of NIM, received …
Friday, 30 April, 2010
Jörg P. Kotthaus voted as new member of acatech
The General Assembly of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) elected Professor Jörg P. Kotthaus as a new member recommended by the Executive Board.
acatech represents …
Tuesday, 20 April, 2010
Lindhard Lecture Prize for Prof. Peter Hänggi
Prof. Peter Hänggi (Theoretical Physics, University of Augsburg) has been awarded the Lindhard Lecture Prize by the Centre for Theory in Natural Science (CTN) of the Aarhus University, …
Thursday, 04 March, 2010
Nano fair at a mega city
NIM attended NanoTech 2010 in Tokyo …
Monday, 08 February, 2010
Highly cited
Two NIM members, Professor Peter Hänggi (University of Augsburg) and Professor Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching), have been listed on www.ISIHighlyCited.com. On …
Sunday, 07 February, 2010
PhD scholarships
The Munich-based Center for NanoScience (CeNS) announces the call for applications for PhD scholarships in the framework of the International Doctorate Program “NanoBioTechnology”. Outstanding …