Awards to Group Members

"PhD Externships":
One pillar of our scientific training philosophy is to support our PhD students to take 3 months off their home projects and go to world-leading labs abroad. These externships help our students to acquire new skillsets and mindsets, while working on completely different topics that they independently design and propose. This refreshes the air during the PhD years, builds bridges for postdoc applications and collaborations, and is an enjoyable recognition for intellectual commitment and hard work.

• Philipp Mauker: Yasuteru Urano at Uni Tokyo (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship)
• Markus Müller: Evan Miller at UC Berkeley (2023; Joachim Herz fellowship & BaCaTec grant)
• Lukas Zeisel: Andy Myers at Harvard (2023; Otto Bayer fellowship)
• Jan Felber: Ben Cravatt at Scripps (2022)
• Alex Sailer: Dirk Trauner at NYU (2021; DAAD fellowship)

Individual Awards within the group - our "journal cover gallery":
We strongly encourage and support our group members to secure individual funding and prizes. Winning your own funding is an integral step in an academic career, allows you to test your knowledge and ideas against the rigour of the peer review system, and is a prestigious recognition for any CV. We also feel that supporting our group members to win prizes and recognition is a better investment than building a collection of journal vanity covers.