Awards and Honours
- The Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry within the Austrian Society of Chemistry presents Prof. Dr. Harald Fuchs the Emich Plaque 2009
- Prof. Dr. Harald Fuchs was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit
(Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) in 2009
- Michel Feldmann, doctoral candidate, received the third prize for the “Best young researcher presentation” at the conference “Trends in Tribology” in Triest 2010
- Dr. Hendrik Hölscher received the Transferpreis 2007/2008 der Universität Münster
- Dr. André Schirmeisen got the Akademie-Preis für Physik der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 2008
- Kai Ruschmeier obtained the "Infineon Master Award" in 2008 for the Diploma Thesis
- Dr. André Schirmeisen received the award 2007 for excellence in research from the
Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität e.V.
- PD Dr. Tilman Schäffer was elected for the Junge Kolleg der NRW-Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2007
- Dr. Xiaodong Chen received the Dissertationspreis 2006 of the WWU
- Dr. Taolei Sun received the Sofja Kovalevskaja-Preis 2006 of the Humboldt-Stiftung
- Dr. Bernd Gotsmann received the Prof. Dr. Jürgen Geiger-Preis in 2001
- Dr. Boris Anczykowski received the Innovation Award Münsterland for Science and Economy 2001 for the Q-Control module
- Dr. Daniel Krüger received the Golden Spike Award 2001
- Prof. Dr. Harald Fuchs received the Philip-Morris-Research Prize “Herausforderung Zukunft” in Nanotechnology in 1994

