Prof. Ingolf Hertel, one of the founding directors of MBI, paid tribute to the young scientist in a laudatory speech. The award is endowed with 10,000 euro.
Daniela Rupp has worked at MBI since 2017, before she was engaged as a researcher at the Institute of Optics and Atomic Physics at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin. In a joint research project of MBI, TU and University of Rostock, Rupp and her colleagues managed for the first time to image free nanoparticles in a laboratory experiment using a high-intensity laser source. Previously, the structural analysis of these extremely small objects via single-shot diffraction was only possible at large-scale research facilities using so called XUV and x-ray free electron lasers. The pathbreaking results facilitate the highly efficient characterisation of the chemical, optical and structural properties of individual nanoparticles.
In her dissertation, Rupp studied atomic clusters with high-energy x-ray pulses and was awarded the Carl Ramsauer Prize of the Physical Society of Berlin (PGzB) in 2013. In 2018, she already received the Karl Scheel Prize, the most important prize of the PGzB.
