Prof. Dr Günther Dollinger has now been awarded the MLZ Prize for ‘Instrumentation and Scientific Use’ for his services to the positron source at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ). At the award ceremony as part of the MLZ User Meeting, laudator and Scientific Director of the MLZ and FRM II, Prof Dr Christian Pfleiderer, said that the PLEPS instrument developed by Dollinger’s team was one of the ‘driving forces’ at the MLZ positron source.

250 participants once again exchanged views on current research topics at this year’s MLZ User Meeting in Munich. They presented their results in 57 lectures and on 86 posters. The Chairman of the User Committee, Prof. Dr. Tommy Nylander, praised the “fantastic breath” that could be felt at the conferences.

Prof. Christian Pfleiderer, Scientific Director at FRM II and MLZ, received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Medal on 5 December 2024 as part of TUM’s ‘Dies Academicus’.