Awards, Prizes and Honors 2025 - 2026
Overview of previous awards
2018 – 2024
2007 – 2017
2026
From the left: Prof. Dr.-Ing. S. Reichel (Hochschule Pforzheim), C. Bilsing (TU Dresden), Dr. U. Boehm (ZEISS)
Clemens Bilsing received the DGaO Young Talent Award for the best PhD thesis of the year at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Applied Optics (DGaO) for his dissertation, “3D Localization Microscopy with Adaptive-Optical Real-time Correction”, Hamburg, May 2026
Prof. Jürgen Czarske, Visiting Professor at the Center for Optical Research and Education“ (CORE), Utsunomiya University, Japan, since May 2026
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Prof. Jürgen Czarske, Outstanding Reviewer award of Light Science & Applications, Changchun, 12 June 2026.
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Prof. Jürgen Czarske, Outstanding Editoraward of Light Science & Applications, Changchun, 12 June 2026
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Dr. Clemens Bilsing: University Prize of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, donation 5.000 Euro for PhD Thesis, “3D localization microscopy with adaptive-optical real-time correction for microfluidic multiphase flows”, Freiburg, 2026
Bowen Yang: Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation Young Talent Award, donation 500 Euro for Diploma/Master Thesis, „Reference-less Digital Optical Phase Conjugation for Information Transmission through Multimode Fibers“, Freiburg, 2026
Juergen Czarske: Honor as an outstanding speaker at the seminar of SIBET, Suzhou, 16 March 2026.
2025
Juergen Czarske: International Fellow Award of Chinese Optical Society, Beijing, 12 Oct 2025
Wenting Geng: Prize on Digital Technology of BASF, Schwarzheide for best Diploma/Master Thesis with the title „High-dimensional Quantum Information Transmission using Few-mode Fibers“ August 2025
Juergen Czarske: “The 12th Talk at BMEF Keling TOP Scientists Forum”, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Suzhou, 18 August 2025
Right: Porf. Czarske
Robert Wendland: Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Prize for an outstanding diploma theses in the field of coordinate measuring technology (1000 EUR donation) 07/2025
Juergen Czarske: Reinhart Koselleck project of German Science Foundation (DFG) "Physics-Informed Deep Learning Systems for Secure Information Transmission with Multimode Fibers", The Koselleck programme enables outstanding researchers with a proven scientific track record to pursue exceptionally innovative, higher-risk projects. 07/2025
Lars Buettner: Senior Member of OPTICA, Washington D.C., elected based on 2 reviews of OPTICA Fellows, 10 July 2025
Jiawei Sun, Bin Yang, Xibin Yang and Juergen Czarske: Best paper award for the work entitled "Ultra-thin AI-driven Fiber Probe for Optical Manupulation and Isotropic 3D Tomography ", Light Conference, 9-13 June, 2025, Changchun, China.
Juergen Czarske: Light Outstanding Editor Award, 10 June 2025, learn more here
Light Outstanding Editor Award
Juergen Czarske: Light Outstanding Reviewer Award, 10 June 2025
Light Outstanding Reviewer Award
Prof. Czarske has received a special honor on June 10th, 2025.
Jiawei Sun: Award for best paper (highly selected compared to best poster) by Light Conference, 12 June 2025 (title, Ultra-thin AI-driven fiber probe for optical manipulation and isotropic 3D tomography, by J. Sun, B Yang, N Koukourakis,X Yang, J Czarske)
Photo of the Deputy Directors of Department of English-language Journals, CLP, with Juergen Czarske honoring the election as editor of Advanced Imaging (5th June 2025)
Prof. Jurgen Czarske vist CLP.jpg © MST
Prizes of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, May 16, 2025
SICK day 2025. From right: Prof R Tetzlaff, Prof C Murawski, R Wendland, Prof U Hampel, Dr S Marchini , Prof G Gerlach, Dr R Dauth, Dr Starke, J Sun, W Bay, Prof J Czarske
Juergen Czarske: Election as editorial board member of the high-quality journal Advanced Imaging, April 2025
Jiali Sun: Young Talent Award of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, 500 Euros, Feb. 2025
From right: Q Zhang, T Wang, S Krause, J Zhang, J Sun, J Czarske
Robert Wendland: Prize for Measurement and Sensor Systems of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, 2250 Euros, Feb. 2025
From right: E Starke, G Gerlach, W Bay, R Wendland, Leftmost: J Czarske
Katharina Schmidt: Student Paper Award for the paper "Understanding Virtual Fluorescent Staining for Connective Tissue", Optica Biophotonics Congress, 21 - 24, April, 2025
Kinga Zolnacz: Awarded Best Paper by the Conference Committee for a talk titled "Multicore fiber modified via ablation and thermal treatment for lensless endoscopic imaging", Kinga Zolnacz, Jakob Dremel, Ronja Stephan, Michael Steinke, Tobias Antrack, Johannes Benduhn, Karl Leo, Jürgen Czarske, Robert Kuschmierz,
SPIE Photonics West Conference, BIOS, 25 January 2025