Awards, Prizes and Honors 2018 - 2024

2024

Jüergen Czarske: Promotion to Adjunct Professor for Optical Sciences, 2024

James C. Wyant College Optical Sciences
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Meinel Optical Sciences, 400N1
PO Box 210094 | Tucson, AZ 85721

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Dennis Pohle and Jürgen Czarske, BEST PAPER AWARD "Secret Key Generation in Multi-Mode Fiber Channels: Channel Measurements and Achievable Rates", IEEE International Conference on Communications, 9–13 June 2024, Denver, CO, USA

Dr. Stefan Rothe: VDE ITG Dissertation Prize 2024

Dr. Stefan Rothe: Measurement Technique Prize of AHMT, Hall, Tirol, Austria, September 2024

Juergen Czarske: Awarded by Light Outstanding Reviewer at the Northeastr Asia International Conference 2024.06.17 - 06.21

Juergen Czarske: Outstanding reviewer award from Light: Science & Applications of Nature, Chinese Academy of Sciences, March 2024

Jiawei Sun: Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, best dissertation on measurement systems at TU Dresden (5000 Euro donation): "Learning-based Three-Dimensional Optical Cell Rotation Tomography and Quantitative Phase", TU Dresden, 05/2024 

Yuan Sui: Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, for young talents, best student thesis/Bachelor/Studienarbeit (500 Euro donation): "High-fidelity transmission through multimode fibers using deep learning", TU Dresden, 05/2024

2023

Prof. Jürgen Czarske was elected as Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Photonics Society 2024. The Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturers program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical contributions of high quality and to enhance the technical programs of Photonics Society chapters.

Read more at IEEE Photonics Society - Distinguished Lecturer-Programm 

Nektarios Koukourakis received the Certification “Sincere Appreciation for research, innovation and publications by BIOLAS”, November 2023 

Dr. - Ing. Jiawei Sun received the Barkhausen Prize 2023 for the best dissertation in electrical engineering - the prize is sponsored by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation and is endowed with 2,500 euros.  The prize was awarded during this year's Faculty Day on November 3, 2023. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology TU Dresden

Dr. - Ing. Jiawei Sun received the BIOLAS Award for research, innovation, and especially the publication "AI-driven projection tomography with multicore fibre-optic cell rotation", awarded in Shanghai, November 2023

M. Sc. Katharina Schmidt  received the sponsorship award of the association "Freunde und Förderer der Fakultät Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik der TU Dresden e.V." (Friends and Sponsors of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the TU Dresden). With this award, the association honors scientific staff members of the faculty who have distinguished themselves through special commitment. The prize is endowed with 500 € and will be awarded during this year's Faculty Day on November 3, 2023.

Jie Zhang: Silicon Science Award for the excellent Bachelor Thesis (SA), awarded during the “60th Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium” 2023, TU Ilmenau on September 4, 2023 "Another award winner in the Bachelor's category was Zhang Jie, Dresden University of Technology. She was honoured for her impressive research results on the topic: "Quantitative phase imaging in real time using an ultra-thin lensless microendoscope".

Certificate from Tsinghua University

Prize from Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai

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Prof. Jürgen Czarske, Prize of Chinese Academy of Science, Qinghe Seminar 70th, Shanghai 08/2023

From right: Prof Juergen Czarske and Prof. Yuxin Leng, vice president of SIOM - Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics / Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Jie Zhang, Theodore Maiman Fellowship of the Scientific Society for Laser Technology , WLT, or her Student work "Quantitative phase imaging in real time by an ultrathin lenslessMicroendoscope" (2 000 Euros), Hanover, 2023

Dipl.-Ing. David Krause,  Young Scientist Award of the DGaO for the best diploma thesis in the field of applied optics in Germany "Measurement of the transmission matrix of multimode fibers using neural networks and modern digital holography", awarded at the Annual Meeting of DGaO-The German Branch of European Optical Society (EOS) in Berlin (Celebrating 100 years DGaO), 06/2023

Prof. Jürgen CzarskeAward Certificate in appreciation for his timely, careful review and checking out many important details for the manuscript of Ligth: Science & Appplications in May 2023. (Springer Nature, CIOMP, COS)

DR.-ING. JIAWEI SUN HONORED WITH THE DR.-ING.SIEGFRIED WERTH FOUNDATION PRIZE at the Chair of Measurement and Sensor Systems Engineering (Czarske Lab), , postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Measurement and Sensor Systems Engineering, is awarded the prestigious Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Prize for his outstanding dissertation on "Learning-based Three-Dimensional Optical Cell Rotation Tomography and Quantitative Phase Imaging Using Multi-Core Fibers". Since 1988, the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Foundation has awarded the prize annually for scientific work in the field of non-contact dimensional metrology. The prize is endowed with 1,500 euros. read more

Jiawei Sun, Jiachen Wu, Song Wu, Ruchi Goswami, Salvatore Girardo, Liangcai Cao, Jochen Guck, Nektarios Koukourakis, Juergen CzarskeCertificate of recognition for Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope as one of the top downloaded papers of Light: Science & Applications in 2022.

Dr. Stefan Rothe, Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, for the dissertation: "Exploiting the interference of multimode fibers to achieve information security on the physical layer", awarded at „TUD Dresden University of Technology“, 04/2023

Jie Zhang, Prize for Measurement and Sensor Technology of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, for the student thesis (Studienarbeit): "Real-time quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless microendoscope", awarded at „TUD Dresden University of Technology“ , 04/2023

Dipl.-Ing. David Krause,

Dipl.-Ing. David Krause, Young Scientist Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, for the diploma thesis: "Measurement of the transmission matrix of multimode fibers using neural networks and modern digital holography", awarded at the lecture Measurement Technique, awarded at „TUD Dresden University of Technology“, 04/2023

2022

Jakob Dremel, Best Student Award of TU Dresden, presented by Prof. UrsulaStaudinger, awarded at „TUD Dresden University of Technology“ , 12/2022

Tom Glosemeyer, SPIE Scholarship to cover traveling expenses for San Francisco –SPIE: The international society for optics and photonics, USA, 12/2022

Stefan Rothe, Karl-Ludwig Besser, Nektarios Koukourakis, Eduard Jorswieck, and Juergen W. Czarske. Best student paper for his talk "Physical layer security for confidential data transmission through multimode fibres", 25^th Congress of International Commission for Optics and 16^th International Conference of Optics Within Life Sciences - ICO-25-OWLS-16, 05-09 September 2022, Dresden

Jiachen Wu, SPIE student paper prize for his paper "Enhanced Fresnel Zone Aperture Lenless Imaging with Downsampling Method", 25^th Congress of International Commission for Optics and 16^th International Conference of Optics Within Life Sciences - ICO-25-OWLS-16, 05-09 September 2022, Dresden

Jiawei Sun, N. Koukourakis, R. Kuschmierz, J. W. Czarske. Best paper student price for his talk "Multi-Dimensional Cell Rotation with Multi-Core Fibers and Wavefront Shaping", 25^th Congress of International Commission for Optics and 16^th International Conference of Optics Within Life Sciences - ICO-25-OWLS-16, 05-09 September 2022, Dresden

Wenjie Wang, F. Lemke, U. Wallrabe, M. C. Wapler, J. Czarske, N. Koukourakis. Best paper student price for her talk "3D scanning microscopy for zebrafish imaging using adaptive prisms and lenses", 25^th Congress of International Commission for Optics and 16^th International Conference of Optics Within Life Sciences - ICO-25-OWLS-16, 05-09 September 2022, Dresden

Prof. Jürgen Czarske2022 Chandra S Vikram Award in Optical Metrology of SPIE (The international society for optics and photonics, Washington, USA), awarded during the SPIE Conference Optics&Photonics at Marriott Hotel in San Diego, USA, August 2022https://ahmt.de/news/

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Anna-Lena Geppert, Theodore-Maiman-Stipendium 2022 der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Lasertechnik e.V., Juli 2022 

Anna-Lena Geppert (Presentation of the prize lecture at the WLT meeting at Fraunhofer IWS Dresden when accepting the Ted Maiman laser scholarship prize of 2 000 Euro) 

Dipl.-Ing. Dennis PohleDGaO Young Talent Award 2022 for his diploma thesis ”Investigating information security for an optical network using Deep Learning”, 09.06.2022 Pforzheim

Prof. Jürgen CzarskeFellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), 23.07.2022News

Dipl.-Ing. Tijue WangYoung talent awards of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation for his diploma thesis "High-resolution Fiber Bundle Imaging Using Deep Learning", 12.04.2022

Prof. Jürgen CzarskeAward outstanding editor for Light: Advanced Manufacturing in Year 2021, 15.2.2022Certificate

2021

Dipl.-Ing. Clemens BilsingHans-Pundt-Prize 2020 for his diploma thesis "Novel laser measurement system with adaptive image correction using helical wavefronts and a deformable mirror", 10.11.2021

Prof. Jürgen Czarske Elected Vice President of International Commission for Optics, ICO, Umbrella Organization for optics and photonics with over 50 territorial members and 7 organizations, PALAISEAU, Paris, France and Miami, Florida, USA, Oct-1-2021ress release: Oiger, Unijournal 16/21Dr. Hannes Radner, Barkhausen Prize of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, highest award (5000 €) of the faculty for the best dissertation of the year (of approx. 40 dissertations per year), donated by Siemens AG, awarded at "TUD Dresden, 11/2021

Dr. Hannes Radner Faculty Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation for his doctor thesis "Adaptive optical wavefront correction using the Fresnel guide star and a hybrid control loop implemented on a field-programmable system-on-chip", awarded at "TUD Dresden", 10/2021Dipl.-Ing. Qian ZhangFaculty Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation for his diploma thesis "Real-time measurement of the transmission matrix of a multimode fiber with a smart detection", awarded at "TUD Dresden", 10/2021

Dipl.-Ing. Clemens BilsingYoung talent awards of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation for his diploma thesis "Novel laser measurement system with adaptive image correction using helical wavefronts and a deformable mirror", awarded at "TUD Dresden", 10/2021

Prof. Dr. Christian KupschFranz Stolze Preis 2021 for his Doctor thesis "Ultrasonic imaging method for complex suspension flows in small geometries: Investigation of the zinc-air flow battery", donation with 1 000 Euro, Berlin/Dresden, 10/2021_{With the Dr. Manfred Freimark and Gudrun Stolze donated "Franz Stolze Prize", the Society of Friends and Supporters of TU Dresden e.V. annually honors excellent scientific theses by students and dissertations of young scientists from TU Dresden in the field of energy technology.}

Dipl.-Ing. Zeyu GaoBest Poster Award for the contributionZ. Gao, H. Ye, L. Büttner, J. Czarske, P. Yang, “Distortion Correction for Imaging-based Flow Measurement using Multiple-input Deep Learning Model”, poster presentation, International Conference on Computational Imaging (CITA), Hangzhou/China, 24.–26.09.2021

Dipl.-Ing. Clemens Matthias BilsingDGaO Young Talent Award 2021 for his diploma thesis with the title "Novel laser measurement system with adaptive image correction using helical wave fronts and a deformable mirror". The prize of the DGaO (The Germany Society for Applied Optics - The German Branch of European Optical Society) will be awarded in Bremen.

Dennis Pohle, 2nd Prize Winner for the best oral presentation for his presentation tiled "Surveillance of a Multimode Fiber Network using Deep Learning" on behalf of the OPTO2021 Organizing and Scientific Commitee, 15th July 2021

Prof. Jürgen Czarske,Fellow Award of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), London, UK, 7/2021

Prof. Jürgen Czarske,SPIE Community Champion 2021, awarded by Nelufar Mohajeri, Director of SPIE (The International Society of Optics and Photonics), WA, USA, 5/2021

Dr.-Ing. Hannes Radner,Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Prize for dimensional metrology, awarding his excellent dissertation "Adaptive optical wavefront correction using the Fresnel guide star and a hybrid control loop implemented on a field-programmable system-on-chip", May 2021

2020

Dr. Katrin Philipp,Dr. Wilhelmy-VDE-Prize 2020 for Promotion of Female Engineers. Awarded for the PhD thesis "Investigation of aberration correction and axial scanning in microscopy employing adaptive lenses" with endowment of 3 500 Euro by Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik & Informationstechnik e. V., VDE), German National Committee of CIGRE, Frankfurt am Main. With 36,000 members (including 1,300 companies) the VDE is one of the largest technical and scientific associations in Europe, December 2020

Jakob Dremel, Theodore Maiman-Scholarship of WLT e.V. (Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Lasertechnik, Scientific Society for Laser Technology), December 8th, 2020Link WLT

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Prof. Juergen Czarske,Co-opted Professor of Physics, Institute of Applied Physics, Faculty of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, TU Dresden, November 2020

Dr. Katrin Philipp,Heinrich-Barkhausen-Prize of Faculty Electrical and Computer Engineering of TU Dresden for her PhD thesis "Investigation of aberration correction and axial scanning in microscopy employing adaptive lenses". The Heinrich-Barkhausen-Prize is sponsored by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation and is awarded annually for the best dissertation completed at the Faculty Electrical and Computer Engineering in the past year, donation with 2 500 Euro, October 2020

Prof. Juergen Czarske,Laser Instrumentation Award 2020 of IEEE Photonics Society, New York City, NY, USA (July 2020)

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Jan Grottke,Friedrich von Klinggräff-Medal 2020 from the Foundation of German Student Corps

Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Stange, SICK-Prize for Sensor and Measurement Systems 2019 from the Faculty Electrical and Computer Engineering of TUD for the diploma thesis “Investigation of an adaptive-optical correction of interface disturbances in flow measurement technique”, June 2020Sponsored by the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation

Dr. Katrin Philipp,Sick-Prize for Measurement Technique 2019 of TU Dresden for her PhD thesis "Investigation of aberration correction and axial scanning in microscopy employing adaptive lenses", donation of 5 000 Euro, Donated by Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, Freiburg, June 2020.

Dr. Katrin Philipp,Bertha Benz Prize 2020 for her PhD thesis "Investigation of aberration correction and axial scanning in microscopy employing adaptive lenses".The Bertha Benz Prize is an award for female engineering scientists who have achieved social added value with their dissertation. The prize has been awarded by the Daimler and Benz Foundation every year and is endowed with 10,000 euros. It is named after Bertha Benz (1849–1944), who supported the development of her husband Carl Benz with an entrepreneurial and technical pioneering spirit.WikipediaIDW NewsTUD NewsYoutubeDevelopmentscoutKrankheiten.meDaimler-Benz-Stiftung

Dipl.-Ing. Benedikt Krug,Study award 2019 by SEW–EURODRIVE–Stiftung for his diploma thesis „Investigation of Brillouin-elastography for biomedical applications using a pulsed laser”, 2020

Prof. Jürgen Czarske,was honored with a prize of the SPIE by 2020 SPIE President John Greivenkamp, The University of Arizona (date, January 2020):“SPIE Community Champion for outstanding volunteerism”.The SPIE is the International Society for Optics and Photonics, Bellingham, Washington, USA.

2019

Dipl.-Ing. Tilo Stock,SICK Young Talent Award 2019 for measurement and sensor system technology for his diploma thesis "Robust ultrasound structural imaging through a multimode waveguide using deep learning", 06.12.2019Sponsored by the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Rothe,President of the SPIE Student Chapter TU Dresden, Award of the Friends and Supporters of the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of TU Dresden for his commitment with the chapter. The SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, 08.11.2019

Dipl.-Ing. Benedikt Krug,Johannes-Görges-Award 2019 for his diploma thesis " Untersuchungen zur Brillouin-Elastographie unter Nutzung eines gepulsten Lasers für biomedizinische Anwendungen", 08.11.2019

Dipl.-Ing. Christian KupschRWB Stephens Prize 2019 for the report C. Kupsch, L. Feierabend, R. Nauber, L. Büttner, J. Czarske "Super‐resolution ultrasound flow imaging of suspensions in narrow channels ", at the International Congress on Ultrasonics, 3 - 6 Sept.2019, Bruges, Belgium

Prof. Jürgen Czarske

Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize for his promising contributions in the field of computer-based adaptive laser metrology, September 2019Photonics Media itemIDEX itemEurekAlert

Dipl.-Ing. Arne KlaßFranz Stolze Award 2019 for his diploma thesis "Ultrasonic-based flow imaging of a hot metal melt through a multimode waveguide", 26.06.2019

Dr. Richard NauberSICK-faculty prize 2018 for Sensors and measuring system technology for his Dissertation "Investigation of imaging ultrasonic measurement technology for transient flow processes in magnetohydrodynamics", 08.04.2019

Dipl.-Ing. Stefan RotheSICK-faculty prize 2018 for Sensors and measuring system technology for his diploma thesis "Investigation of Information Security on the Transmission Layer in Multimode Fibre Communication Systems", 08.04.19

Dipl.-Ing. Benedikt KrugHans-Pundt-Preis 2018 of VDE Dresden for his diploma thesis "Investigations on Brillouin elastography using a pulsed laser for biomedical applications", 06.03.2019

Dipl.-Ing. Elias ScharfSICK Young Talent Award 2018 for measurement and sensor system technology for his diploma thesis "Construction of a holographic endoscope using coherent fiber bundles with self-calibration", 28.01.2019

Johannes StangeSICK Young Talent Awards 2018 for Measurement and Sensor System Technology for his student research project "Design and Testing of an Adapted Controller for a Wavefront Correction System", 28.01.2019

Dr. Robert KuschmierzSiegfried Werth Foundation for his dissertation "Interferometric laser sensors for three-dimensional,in-situ shape measurement of rotating bodies", 17.10.2018

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Dr. Nektarios Koukourakis,  Moritz Kreysing, Jürgen Czarske3rd Best Presentation Award focus on Adaptive OpticsPaper "Wavefront shaping method to focus through mouse skull", OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress in Orlando, Florida, USA, 27.06.2018

Dr. Lars Büttner, Martin Teich, Hannes Radner, Jürgen Czarske2nd Best Presentation Award focus on Adaptive OpticsPaper: "Dynamic Adaptive Optical Image Correction for Velocimetry”, OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress in Orlando, Florida, USA, 27.06.2018

Dipl.-Ing. Dirk SchubertDGaO Young Investigators Award 2017 for his diploma thesis "Investigation of amplitude and phase modulation by coherent fiber bundles", 25.05.2018, certificate

Dipl.-Ing. Mantvydas Kalibatas Study Award of the  SEW-EURODRIVE-Foundation for his Diploma Thesis "Ultrasonic Imaging with Multimode Waveguides Using Time-Reversal Virtual Arrays", 03.05.2018Further information about this can be found here: http://sew-eurodrive-stiftung.de/diplomandenpreis.html

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Prof. Jürgen Czarske,Elected Full Member of the Technical Science Class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig..

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Dr.-Ing. Robert Kuschmierz SICK Measurement Technology Prize 2017 for his dissertation: "Interferometric laser sensors for three-dimensional, in-situ shape measurement of rotating bodies", 22.02.2018

Dipl.-Ing. Mantvydas Kalibatas SICK 2017 Subsidy Awards for Sensor Technology and Measuring Systems Technology for its Diploma thesis "Ultrasonic imaging by multimode waveguides using Time Reversal Virtual Arrays", 22.02.2018

Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Schubert SICK Young Talent Awards 2017 for Measurement and Sensor System Technology for his diploma thesis "Investigation of Amplitude and Phase Modulation by Coherent Fiber Bundles", 22.01.2018

Benedikt KrugSICK Young Talent Awards 2017 for Measurement and Sensor System Technology for his student research project "Phase-Shifting Holography for Adaptive Optics", 22.01.2018

Dirk Schubert, R. Kuschmierz, J. Czarske,Best poster award (1st place) for „Pixelation-free light pattern generation through multi-core fibers using digital optical Technologies“, 118. Jahrestagung der DGaO, Dresden, Germany, 06.06.-10.06.2017

Prizes and Awards of the Chair for Measurement and Sensor Technology

Awards, Prizes and Honors from 2013 to 2023