European XFEL young scientist award

The European XFEL aims at recognizing outstanding contributions of young researchers in the early stages of their career to research at European XFEL.

Award carriers

2021: Michael Schneider

 from the Max Born Institute honoured for his work on ultrafast magnetisation. Link

 

2023: Camila Bacellar

from SwissFEL, the Swiss X-ray free-electron laser at the Paul Scherrer Institute, honoured for her work in the field of excited state dynamics in chemical and biological systems. Link

 

2023: Elke de Zitter

from the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) in Grenoble, honoured for her work on data processing of time resolved crystallography or, more generally, serial crystallography. Link

 

2024: Jiawei Yan

from European XFEL, honoured for development of methods for generating ultrashort high-power pulses at the SASE2 line of the European XFEL. Link

 

2025: Patrick Heighway

from Oxford UniversitySwissFEL, honoured for his pivotal role in measuring X-ray diffraction at extreme pressures and temperatures at the HED-HiBEF Instrument Link