Queen's 2015 Nobel Prize in PhysicsThe Marthe Vogt Award is an annual prize established in 2001 by the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB), consisting of €3,000 to recognize outstanding doctoral theses by young female scientists in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The award is named after Marthe Louise Vogt (1903–2003), a pioneering neuroscientist who researched neurotransmitters and fled Nazi Germany to continue her work in the UK.
This year's winner:
2026: Dr. Lara Greten (Physicist) for her thesis on light-matter interaction in ultrathin materials.
Some of Dr. Greten's research work on nanoscale light-matter interactions (nanophotonics and quantum optics) is part of a collaboration between Professor Andreas Knorr (Technical University, Berlin) and Professor Stephen Hughes (Queen's), which now continues into new areas with Dr. Greten based at Queen's University as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Official German article Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. LinkedIn
Dr. Lara Greten at the award ceremony.
Dr. Greten with her award at the ceremony. From left to right: Martin Böhnke, Dr. Lara Greten, Prof. Dr. Andreas Knorr, Prof. Dr. Dorothea Fiedler