On December 1, 2022, the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) of Technische Universität Dresden and the Zentrum für Angewandte Photonik e.V. invited to the 28th Dresden Photonics Colloquium. Since this event had to be cancelled in 2021 due to Corona restrictions, this year the winners of the best doctoral and master theses for 2020 and 2021 were selected.

The Emanuel Goldberg Prize 2020 was awarded to Dr. Paul-Anton Will for his PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Sebastian Reineke entitled "Efficiency Improvement of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Development of Novel Fabrication and Optical Evaluation Concepts." In the meantime, Mr. Will is pushing his innovative research ideas in the spin-off project "PRUUVE", which aims at the commercialization of intelligent labels as well as measuring foils for precise and inexpensive UV determination.

The winner of the 2021 Emanuel Goldberg Award is Dr. Erjuan Guo for her dissertation entitled "Vertical Organic Transistors: Fundamentals, Novel Concepts, and Applications." She is now continuing her research on organic transistors, which enable printable electronics that can be used in many areas of life, in a postdoctoral position in Cambridge.

The Emanuel Goldberg Prize, awarded by the Robert Luther Foundation, honors particularly outstanding dissertations at Technische Universität Dresden in the fields of optoelectronics and photonics. It serves the memory of Prof. Emanuel Goldberg, the long-forgotten contemporary and companion of Robert Luther and honorary professor at the Scientific Photographic Institute (WPI) of the Dresden University of Technology (1921-1933), who has been erased from the collective consciousness.

The Harry-Dember-Prize 2020 was awarded to Mr. Lautaro Petrauskas for his master thesis "Design and Investigation of a Delayed Feedback Line for a Reservoir Computing System Using Organic Electronics" and to Mr. Maximilian Obst for his master thesis "Optical and Electrical Investigations of VO2- Thin Films".

The Harry-Dember-Prize 2021 was awarded to Mr. M.Sc. Richard Kantelberg for his master thesis "Modelling the Distribution of Oxygen in Organic Thin Film Systems" and to Mr. M.Sc. Julius Brunner for his master thesis "Novel Strategies for Performance and Stability Enhancement of CsPbI3 Quantum Dot Solar Cells".

The Harry Dember Award for particularly outstanding master's or diploma theses at Technische Universität Dresden in the fields of optics, optoelectronics, photonics and imaging scanning probe methods commemorates the Dresden physicist Prof. Harry Dember, discoverer of the effect named after him. Dember, after many years of successful work at the Physics Department of the then TH Dresden, was expelled by the National Socialists in 1933 and emigrated to Turkey and then to the USA, where he died in 1942.

All prizes were presented by the Rector of the Technische Universität Dresden, Prof. Dr. Ursula Staudinger. In her welcoming address, she praised the work of the awarding Robert Luther Foundation in promoting research in the fields of optoelectronics, organic electronics and photonics in Dresden. In addition, she emphasized the charisma of the research work in these fields for the region. The close integration of basic research and high-tech development enabled the spin-off of several very successful companies. Research into novel electronic systems also forms a pillar for the next round of the Excellence Initiative: "Responsible Electronics" is intended to create the foundations for sustainable electronics adapted to people's needs.