- Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Chapter, OSKar 2023
- 2023 Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of APL Photonics Pte. Ltd., Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo and Cristina Benea-Chelmus
- ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2023, Christian Koos
- Outstanding Student Poster Award 2023 European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Spring Meeting, Christian Rainer for his poster titled: "High-resolution patterning of doping in semiconducting polymer films by non-resonant laser excitation"
- NEULAND Innovationswettbewerb 2023 Transferpreis First Place, Uli Lemmer and Ruben Hünig for "Phytonics – Biomimetic Anti-Reflective Film for Solar Modules"
- NEULAND Innovationswettbewerb 2023 Transferpreis Third Place, Christian Koos, Carsten Eschenbaum, Adrian Mertens for "SilOriX"
- ERC Consolidator Grant, Ulrich W. Paetzold, 2022
- ERC Advanced Grant, Uli Lemmer, 2022
- Optica Amplify Scholarship, Ngei Katumo, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 1: Photonic Materials & Devices, Tobias Messer, Two Steps Towards Novel 3D Laser Nanoprinters, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 2: Quantum Optics & Spectroscopy, Jannis Hessenauer, Towards cavity-enhanced single ion spectroscopy of Yb3+:Y2O3, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 2: Quantum Optics & Spectroscopy, Jonas Grammel, Indistinguishable single photons at telecom wavelength for quantum network applications, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 3: Biomedical Photonics, Leon Geiger, Laser-Induced Protein Crystallization, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 4: Optical Systems, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, A Key Challenge for Autonomous Driving: Can We Still Trust Our Maps, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 5: Solar Energy, Felix Laufer, Machine learning in situ photoluminescence data of the fabrication process of perovskite photovoltaics, 2022
- KSOP Summer School 2022 Best Poster Award Research Area 5: Solar Energy, Ronja Pappenberger, High-Efficiency Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Top Solar Cells for Tandem Photovoltaics, 2022
- 2021 Everingham Prize for KITTI at ICCV, Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, Christoph Stiller, Raquel Urtasun and other contributors, 2021
- Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Martin Wegener
- First place, Neuland Innovationswettbewerb Category "Ideenpreis", Stefan Bräse, 2021
- Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics Best Poster Award 2021, Isabel Allegro, Towards Continuous Wave (CW) Lead Halide Perovskite Lasers, 2021
- Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics Best Poster Award 2021, Jonas Grammel, Indistinguishable Single Photons at Telecom Wavelength for Quantum Network Applications, 2021
- Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics Best Poster Award 2021, Ngei Katumo, Smartphone Authenticatable Dynamic Color-Tunable Anti-Counterfeiting Labels Based on Persistent Phosphors, 2021
- Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics Best Poster Award 2021, Sebastiana Ruisi, Investigation of the Intracellular Trafficking of the Guidance Receptors in Axonal Growth Cones, 2021
- Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics Best Poster Award 2021, Margarita Zakharova, Inverted Hartmann Mask Enables Time-Resolved X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging at a Millisecond Scale, 2021
- ERC Synergy Grant "Highly Informative Drug Screening by Overcoming NMR Restrictions", Jan G. Korvink
- 2020 Optical Materials Express (OMEx) Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize, Simon Woska (AG Kalt, APH), 2020
- 13th KIT Doctoral Award of the year 2019/2020, Dr. rer. nat. Jasmin Marie Busch ("Synthese von Kupfer(I)- und Silber(I)-Komplexen zur Untersuchung kooperativer Effekte und Anwendung in OLEDs"), 2020
- Verleihung des Gips-Schüle-Nachwuchspreises 2020, Tobias Abzieher receives the prize for his work with innovative approaches to the production of novel solar cells, the perovskite solar cells, based on organic-inorganic materials. Abzieher demonstrated the world's first completely vacuum-processed solar module on larger surfaces, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Aristeidis Lamprianidis, Directional Coupling of Emitters to Waveguides, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Sören Bieling, Laser Frequency Stabilization for Cavity-Enhanced Single Ion Spectroscopy of Eu3+:Y2O3, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Marc Hippler, Mechanical Stimulation of Single Cells by Reversible Host-Guest Interactions in 3D Microscaffolds, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Hao Jia, Optimization of 3D+t Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy and its Application to the Study of Cellular Dynamics, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Alexander Anton, Polarization-sensitive Imaging in Medicine - Visualization of Nerve Fibers within the White Matter of the Human Brain, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Robert Huber, Printed Sensor Arrays for the Detection of Nitroaromatic Compounds Using Photoluminescence Quenching, 2020
- KSOP Best Poster Award 2020, Somayeh Moghadamzadeh,Triple-Cation Low-Bandgap Perovskite Thin-Films for High-Efficiency Four-Terminal All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells, 2020
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- KSOP Best Publication Award 2019, Marc Hippler, Controlling the shape of 3D microstructures by temperature and light, 2019
- KSOP Best Publication Award 2019, Saba Gharibzadeh, CRecord Open-Circuit Voltage Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells Utilizing 2D/3D Perovskite Heterostructure, 2019
- KSOP Best Publication Award 2019, Tobias Frenzel,Three-dimensional mechanical metamaterials with a twist, 2019
- KSOP Best Publication Award 2019, Tobias Messer, Two in One: Light as a Tool for 3D Printing and Erasing at the Microscale, 2019
- KSOP Best Publication Award 2019, Aso Rahimzadegan, Disorder-Induced Phase Transitions in the Transmission of Dielectric Metasurfaces, 2019
- Martin Wegener became the spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “3D Matter Made to Order”, a collaboration of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Heidelberg University within the Excellence Strategy, 2019
- Ulrich Lemmer becomes a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), 2019
- Alexander Colsmann and five colleagues from KIT received the Erwin-Schrödinger-Prize of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, 2019
- Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus receives 2019 EPS-QEOD Thesis Prize for fundamental aspects, 2019
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Thomas Gessner Award of Fraunhofer ENAS for excellent scientific thesis in the field of Smart Systems Integration, C. Huber (2019)
- Poster Award at the International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2019), S. Gharibzadeh (2019)
- Best student presentation at the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, R. Schmager (2019)
- SICK Science Award for the Best Dissertation, T. Harter (2019)
- International Bionic Award 2018 of the Schauenburg Foundation, R. H. Siddique, Y. J. Donie, and G. Gomard (2018)
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Ulrich Lemmer receives the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, 2018
- Martin Wegener (Institute of Applied Physics), the Institute of Nanotechnology, and Nanoscribe recieved a Prize of the DPG for super-precision 3-D laser printing from Karlsruhe, 2018
- Amos Egel is the Winner of the "2018 Elsevier - Waterman Award" for electromagnetic scattering & characterization, 2018
- The KIT thanks it's staff for being comitted, having great ideas and bringing great results: https://intranet.kit.edu/5202.php, 2018
- Christian Koos won the second prize of the renowned Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis together with the other founders and employees of Vanguard Photonics and with teams from its research partner KIT, 2018
- "2018 Elsevier - Waterman Award" for Electromagnetic Scattering & Characterization, A. Egel (2018)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA I Photonic Materials & Devices, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, C. Kern (2017)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA II Advanced Spectroscopy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, K. Brendle, P. Jäger (2017)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA III Biomedical Photonics, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, B. Prunsche, L. Zhou (2017)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA IV Optical Systems, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, P. Marín-Palomo, J. Pfeifle, S. Wolf (2017)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA V Solar Energy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, M. Adams, N. Baroni, M. Oldenburg (2017)
- Prof. Dr. Martin Wegener together with Prof. Dr. Martin Bastmeyer and Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik received the Erwin-Schrödinger-Prize of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres for developing a method to build flexible and three-dimensional micro structures, in which cell cultures can be bred and researched, 2017
- Christian Koos: Offer of a professorship for Photonic Integration at Technical University of Eindhoven, 2017 (declined)
- Christian Koos: Offer of a professorship for High-Frequency Technologies and Photonics at Technical University of Berlin, 2017 (declined)
- Manfred Kappes was honored with the membership of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2017
- Christian Koos was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant and a Proof of Concept Grant, 2017
- Christian Koos founded the Start-up Vanguard Photonics GmbH in 2016: Vanguard Photonics GmbH is a high-tech spin-off company, offering services and technologies in the area of large-scale photonic integration, 2016
- Claus Feldmann: Offer of a professorship at Leibniz-Universität Hannover, 2016 (declined)
- Poster Prize German Biophysical Society Meeting Erlangen, L. Zhou (2016)
- KIT-Award for Doctoral Thesis, C. Krämmer (2016)
- Carsten Rockstuhl became a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), 2015
- Christian Koos and his team were awarded the Research Award of the Gips-Schüle-Foundation, 2015
- Ulrich Lemmer was elected as a member of the Reviewers Collegiate of the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the period 2015 - 2020
- Stefan Gärtner and Alexander Colsmann were awarded the Research Award of the Gips-Schüle-Foundation in 2015
- Christoph Stiller became speaker of the DFG focus program „Kooperativ agierende Automobile“, 2015
- Martin Bastmeyer received the Advanced Researcher Scholarship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), 2015
- KSOP Publication Award in RA I Photonic Materials & Devices, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, R. Schittny (2015)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA II Advanced Spectroscopy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, P. Ensslen (2015)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA III Biomedical Photonics, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, Y. Klapper (2015)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA IV Optical Systems, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, J. Ziegler (2015)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA V Solar Energy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, S. Gärtner (2015)
- Martin Wegener was awarded the Thomas Reuters Award as „Highly Cited Researcher“, 2014
- Christian Koos was awarded the Baden-Württemberg State Prize for Applied Research by the Federal Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, 2014
- Teh publication Nature Commun. 5, 3055 (2014) of the group of Martin Wegener was elected for the OPN (top 10 publications worldwide of the year), 2014
- Johannes Orphal: Offer to become a scientific director of the Institute Saint Louis, 2014 (declined)
- Carsten Rockstuhl was awarded the APS Outstanding Referee Award, 2014
- Martin Wegener won the SPIE PRISM AWARD for Nanoscribe GmbH, 2014
- Manfred Kappes was awarded the Xingda Lectureship of the Peking University (China), 2014
- Martin Wegener was awarded the Professor honoris causa (h.c.) by the Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan (China), 2014
- Carsten Rockstuhl: Offer for a professorship for Theoretical Physics at the University Linz, 2014 (declined)
- Poster Prize German Biophysical Society Meeting Lübeck, C. Manz (2014)
- Christian Koos has been a member in the managing board of the „Deutschen Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik“ (DGaO), 2013-2014
- Wolfram Pernice was elected for the Junge Akademie of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, 2013
- Jürg Leuthold became speaker of the „Helmholtz International Research School in Teratronics“ in 2012, followed by Christian Koos in 2013
- Best Dissertation in Physics at KIT 2012 (Price of Erika and Dr. Wolfgang Eichelberger-Foundation), T. Großmann (2013)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA I Photonic Materials & Devices, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, P. Rath (2013)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA II Advanced Spectroscopy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, P. Schwab (2013)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA III Biomedical Photonics, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, B. Richter (2013)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA IV Optical Systems, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, S. König (2013)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA V Solar Energy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, T. Schnabel (2013)
- OSA Best Poster Award by OSKar Student Chapter, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, R. Schittny, A. Merz, M. Bachmann, A. Nesic, and F. Nickel (2013)
- Christoph Stiller, President of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Sys. Society, 2012-2013
- Christian Koos became speaker of the „Helmholtz International Research School in Teratronics“, 2012
- Junior research group leaders accepted external offers for professorships: Martina Gerken, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2008; Georg von Freymann, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2010; Stefan Linden, Universität Bonn, 2010; Nicolas Stenger, Dänische Technische Universität, Assistant Professor, 2012; Christiane Becker, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin 2013, Isabelle Staude, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Juniorprofessur, 2015; Wolfram Pernice, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, 2015
- Alexander Colsmann leads the BMBF Young Researchers Group "Tandem-Architekturen für effi-ziente Organische Solarzellen", 2012
- Christian Koos: Offer for a professorship in Optoelectronics and leadership of the Center for Semiconductor Technology and Optoelectronics at the University Duisburg-Essen, 2012 (declined)
- Olaf Dössel was annonced fellow of the International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2012
- Cristian Koos recieved the Alfried Krupp sponsorship award for junior researchers, 2012
- The foundation of the start-up company Fibergy out of J. Leuthold’s group is anticipated for 2012: Fibergy aims at commercializing optically powered galvanically isolated motion sensors for wind-power-plant blades.
2011
- Best Paper Award of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, M. Roser, P. Lenz (2011)
- Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC), J. Ziegler, A. Geiger, H. Rapp, Netherlands (2011)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA I Photonic Materials & Devices, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, T. Ergin, N. Stenger (2011)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA II Advanced Spectroscopy, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, M. Wissert (2011)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA III Biomedical Photonics, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, T. Großmann (2011)
- KSOP Publication Award in RA IV Optical Systems, Karlsruhe Days of Optics & Photonics, C. Vannahme (2011)
- ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant 2011 for Christian Koos
- Jürg Leuthold became Hector Fellow (2011)
- Manfred Kappes became a member of Leopoldina, the Germany Academy of Sciences
- The start-up company VISOLAS GmbH has been founded out of U. Lemmer’s and T. Mappes’ groups in spring 2011: VISOLAS aims at commercializing organic semiconductor lasers for biophotonic applications. In June 2011, VISOLAS obtained the prestigeous Cyberone Hightech Award for the best research commercialization of 2011.
- Claus Feldmann: Offer for a professorship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2011 (declined)
- Kurt Busch: Offer for a professorship at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in conjunction with a group-leader position at Max Born-Institute in Berlin, 2011
- Martin Wegener, Program Co-chair, CLEO: Fundamental Science (formerly QELS), Baltimore (U.S.A.), May 1-6, 2011
- Uli Lemmer, Conference Program Chair, Optical Society of America (OSA), Topical Meeting ‘Solid State and Organic Lighting’, Austin (USA), 2011
- In 2011 Karlsruhe’s vehicle AnnieWAY won the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge.
2010
- Poster Award, 9th European Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Workshop,
‘Multiply Charged Anions in a New Temperature-controllable ICR Cell’, T. Karpuschkin, Lausanne, Switzerland (2010) - Best Dissertation Proposal Award, Intelligent Vehicle Symposium, A. Geiger, San Diego, USA (2010)
- Best Student Paper Award, SPIE Europe, S. Klinkhammer, T. Woggon, C. Vannahme, U. Geyer, T. Mappes, U. Lemmer, Brussels, Belgium, ‘Optical spectroscopy with organic semiconductor lasers’, Organic Photonics IV, Proc. SPIE 7722 (2010)
- Award for Dissertation Proposal, Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, P. Lenz, San Diego, USA (2010)
- 1st Prize Corning Best Student Paper Award, D. Hillerkuß (2010)
- Manfred Kappes became Hector Fellow (2010)
- Claus Feldman became member of the curatorship of the journal "Angewandte Chemie", 2010
- Jürg Leuthold became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Jürg Leuthold: Offer for a professorship at RWTH Aachen, 2010 (declined)
- Martin Wegener: Offer to become President of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig and Berlin, 2010 (declined)
- KSOP Junior Research Group Leaders have accepted professorial positions elsewhere: Georg von Freymann, University of Kaiserslautern, 2010; Stefan Linden, University of Bonn, 2010
- Uli Lemmer, Conference Program Chair, Optical Society of America (OSA), Topical Meeting ‘Solid State and Organic Lighting’, Karlsruhe (Germany), 2010
- Jürg Leuthold, General Conference Chair, Optical Society of America (OSA) Optics Congress, Karlsruhe (Germany), June 21-24, 2010
- Martin Wegener, General Conference Co-chair, Optical Society of America (OSA) Topical Meeting ‘Plasmonics and Metamaterials’, Tucson (U.S.A.), June 7-9, 2010
2009
- Recognition for a high quality paper, SAE International Small Engine Technology Conference, ‘Spectroscopic Measurements in Small Two-Stroke SI Engines’, K. Beck, T. Heidenreich, S. Busch, U. Spicher, T. Gegg, A. Kölmel, SAE Technical Paper 2009-32-0030 (2009)
- Best student paper award 3rd prize, 22nd IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting, J. Li (2009)
- Martin Wegener became Hector Fellow (2009)
- Manfred Kappes was awarded the Van´t Hoff Prize of the German Bunsen Society of Physical Chemistry (2009)
- Martin Wegener, Adjunct Professor at Optical Sciences Center, Tucson (U.S.A.), 2009
2008
- Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg 2008 for Jürg Leuthold
- Manfred Kappes was appointed Chairman of ERC Advanced Grants Panel PE4-A for the period 2008 - 2013
- Stefan Bräse (Organic Molecular Chemistry) and Ulrich Nienhaus (Biophysics) were elected Members of the Reviewers Collegiate of the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the period 2008 - 2012
- Martin Wegener and Jürg Leuthold became Fellows of the Optical Society of America (2008)
- Manfred Kappes became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences
- KSOP Junior Research Group Leader accepted professorial position elsewhere: Martina Gerken, University of Kiel, 2008
- A Karlsruhe/ Munich vehicle reached the final of the US DARPA Urban Challenge in 2008.
2007
- DFG Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2007 to Stefan Linden for research on photonic metamaterials
- Jürg Leuthold 2007 – 2011: Chair of ‘Photonics and Electro-optics Division’ of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
- The start-up company Nanoscribe GmbH has been founded in 2007 out of Martin Wegener’s group: Nanoscribe produces compact and easy-to-operate table-top laser lithography systems, allowing for the fabrication of true three-dimensional nanostructures based on two photon polymerization in commercially available photoresists. Martin Hermatschweiler, Georg v. Freymann, Michael Thiel and Martin Wegener have been awarded the Otto-Haxel Award 2007 for the successful technology transfer.
- In 2007 the Ohio/Karlsruhe vehicle has entered the finals of the US DARPA Grand Challenge and was ranked on position 10 among a total of 195 competitors.
2006
- Kurt Busch and Martin Wegener received the Carl Zeiss Award 2006 for their cooperative work on photonic crystals and photonic metamaterials
- Martin Wegener became a member of Leopoldina, the Germany Academy of Sciences
- KSOP scientists have applied for 91 patents within 2006 – 2015.