Ars legendi faculty prize for TUD physicist Dr. Sebastian Schellhammer

Dr. Sebastian Schellhammer from the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Dresden has been awarded this year's nationwide Ars legendi Faculty Prize in the Physics category. The award ceremony will take place on April 24, 2025 in Berlin.

Physicist Sebastian Schellhammer has been teaching at TU Dresden since 2011. With success. He has already been awarded the teaching prize of the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e.V. twice for his outstanding performance: in 2015 for the innovative handling of heterogeneity in the course Concepts of Molecular Modeling and in 2025 together with Prof. Gesche Pospiech for the student-centered course Anwendungen der Physik und ihre Didaktik for Teacher Training Students. He has now been awarded the Ars legendi Faculty Prize in the Physics category for presenting socially relevant physics topics in a student-centered way. In the jury's statement, it says: “He deliberately chooses research fields such as climate physics or nanotechnology, which can be used to demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches. The choice of topics also enables the teaching of larger contexts and puts students in a position to effectively refute false arguments (for example on climate change) using physical knowledge and experiments”. He is also committed to improving teaching at TU Dresden, for example through the regular Lehre@MINT get-together and the didactic qualifications of the supervisors in the physics practical course. When asked about his motivation, Sebastian Schellhammer says: “In teaching, I can usually see within just a few weeks how the students' skills are enhanced by my work and their potential becomes visible. That is a very uplifting feeling. I particularly appreciate the teamwork that this creates - both with the students in teaching and with other lecturers in teaching development.”

About the Ars legendi faculty prize
The Ars legendi Faculty Prize for Mathematics and Natural Sciences is awarded to academics who distinguish themselves through outstanding, innovative and exemplary achievements in teaching, advising and supporting their students. The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros each, has been awarded annually since 2014 in the categories of biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics jointly by the Stifterverband, the Association of Biology, Biosciences and Biomedicine in Germany, the Society of German Chemists, the German Mathematical Society and the German Physical Society. https://stifterverband.org/ars-legendi-mn

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Dr. Sebastian Schellhammer
Institute of Applied Physics
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