Awards, Prizes and Honors 2025 - 2026

Overview of previous awards
2018 – 2024
2007 – 2017

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

Prof. Jürgen Czarske, Outstanding Editoraward of Light Science & Applications, Changchun, 12 June 2026

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

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 

Juergen Czarske: Light Outstanding Reviewer Award, 10 June 2025

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)

Prizes of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, May 16, 2025

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

Robert Wendland: Prize for Measurement and Sensor Systems of the Gisela and Erwin Sick Foundation, 2250 Euros, Feb. 2025

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