Prof. Michael Bonitz, Lehrstuhl Statistische Physik, ITAP, CAU Kiel

Awards and recognitions for the Bonitz group

December 2023: The article Physics and applications of dusty plasmas: The perspectives 2023, by J. Beckers, J. Berndt, D. Block, M. Bonitz, P.J. Bruggeman, L. Couëdel, G.L. Delzanno, Y. Feng, R. Gopalakrishnan, F. Greiner, P. Hartmann, M. Horányi, H. Kersten, C.A. Knapek, U. Konopka, U. Kortshagen, E.G. Kostadinova, E. Kovačević, S.I. Krasheninnikov, I. Mann, D. Mariotti, L.S. Matthews, A. Melzer, M. Mikikian, V. Nosenko, M.Y. Pustylnik, S. Ratynskaia, R.M. Sankaran, V. Schneider, E.J. Thimsen, E. Thomas, H.M. Thomas, P. Tolias, and M. van de Kerkhof has been selected by the editors of Physics of plasmas as Feature Article
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July 2023: The article Roton feature in warm dense hydrogen predicted, by Paul Hamann, Linda Kordts, Alexey Filinov, Michael Bonitz, Tobias Dornheim, and Jan Vorberger, has been selected by the editors of Physical Review Research as editors' choice
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March 2023: The article Time-dependent charged particle stopping in quantum plasmas: testing the G1–G2 scheme for quasi-one-dimensional systems, by has been selected by the editors of Contributions to Plasma Physics as editors' choice
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February 2023: The article Theoretical analysis of exotic warm dense matter, by Tobias Dornheim, Zhandos Moldabekov, Kushal ramakrishna, Panagiotis Tolias, Andrew Baczewski, Dominik Kraus, Thomas Preston, Dave Chapman, Maximilian Böhme, Tilo Doeppner, Frank Graziani, Michael Bonitz, Attila Cangi, and Jan Vorberger has been selected by the editors of Physical Review Research as editors' pick
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December 2022: our former group member Tobias Dornheim is awarded an ERC starting grant
August 2022: The article Ion-induced surface charge dynamics in freestanding monolayers of graphene and MoS2 probed by the emission of electrons, , by Anna Niggas, Karsten Balzer, Niclas Schlünzen, M. Bonitz, Richard Wilhelm et al. , has been selected by the editors of Physical Review Letters as editors' choice
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July 2021: Dawson award for Michael Bonitz and three former PhD students.
The Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society grants the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research 2021 to Michael Bonitz and his former students Tim Schoof, Tobias Dornheim and Simon Groth, together with William Matthew Colwyn Foulkes (Imperial College London), Fionne D. Malone (QC Ware) and Travis Sjostrom (Los Alamos National Laboratory) for their joint research achievements in the field of Warm Dense Matter. The citation reads
"For developing Monte Carlo methods that overcome the fermion sign problem, leading to the first ab initio data for an electron gas under warm dense matter conditions."
Announcement of APS | poster | CAU-Pressemitteilung | Press release of CAU
May 2021: Franziska Reiser is awarded the EmpowerMINT award of Kiel University 2021 for her Bachelor Thesis ``Stopping Power in Graphen-Nanoclustern im Rahmen des G1-G2-Schemas''.
March 2021: Lotte Borkowski is awarded a Fulbright stipend for a one year graduate school stay in the United States.
October 2020: Jan-Philip Joost wins one of the best Phd student oral contribution awards at the international online conference Graphene2020, for his talk Correlated Topological States in Graphene Nanoribbon Heterostructures, with the co-authors Antti-Pekka Jauho (TU Denmark) and Michael Bonitz
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March 2020: the article Femtosecond Electron Dynamics in Graphene Nanoribbons -- a Nonequilibrium Green Functions Approach Within an Extended Hubbard Model, by J.-P. Joost, N. Schlünzen, and M. Bonitz, Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 257, issue 7, article 1800498 (2019)
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has been selected by the editors of physica status solidi for the Showcase2020 and is free to read until the end of 2020
October 2019: the article The Static Local Field Correction of the Warm Dense Electron Gas: An ab initio Path Integral Monte Carlo Study and Machine Learning Representation, by T. Dornheim, J. Vorberger, S. Groth, N. Hoffmann, Zh. Moldabekov, and M. Bonitz, has been slected by the editors of the J. Chem. Phys. as Editors' pick
journal link | local file | arXiv:1907.08473
June 2019: Hanno Kählert's article Dynamic structure factor of strongly coupled Yukawa plasmas with dissipation, Physics of Plasmas 26, 063703 (2019) has been picked by the editors for coverage by a Sclilight article
DOI: 10.1063/1.5099579 | local file | Scilight article
May 2019: The article Permutation Blocking Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations of Degenerate Electrons at Finite Temperature, by T. Dornheim, S. Groth, and M. Bonitz, has been selected by Contributions to Plasma Physics for editors' choice and for the front cover of the journal
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April 2019: Tobias Dornheim wins the Nanophysics PhD award of the Research Focus "Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science" (KiNSIS) and the Fakultätspreis of the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät of CAU,
for his PhD thesis "The uniform electron gas at the warm dense matter conditions: A Permutation Blocking Path Integral Monte Carlo perspective".
The award was presented at the Diels-Planck lecture, June 18, Foto: Julia Siekmann

March 2019: Simon Groth's PhD thesis has been selected as best plasma physics thesis in 2019. Simon participated in the PhD colloquium of the AMOP section of the German Physical Society in Rostock, March 2019
August 2018: Tobias Dornheim wins the U30 Doctoral Scientist Award of the Plasma Physics Division of the Asian-Pacific Physical Society. The award was combined with a talk at the annual meeting of the society, November 12-16 in Kanazawa, Japan.
November 2017: The paper Ab initio results for the Static Structure Factor of the Warm Dense Electron Gas by Tobias Dornheim, Simon Groth, and Michael Bonitz, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 57, 468-478 (2017)
arXiv:1709.02199
was highlighted by the Journal as Editors' Choice
July 2017: Sebastian Hermanns wins the award for the "Best Phd thesis" of the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät of CAU (Fakultätspreis) in 2016 for his thesis Nonequilibrium Green functions. Selfenergy approximation techniques, advisor: M. Bonitz
press release of Kiel University of July 20 2017

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April 2017: The paper Nonequilibrium dynamics in the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model: A comparison of the nonequilibrium Green functions approach and the density matrix renormalization group method by Niclas Schlünzen, Jan-Philip Joost, Fabian Heidrich-Meisner, and Michael Bonitz, Phys. Rev. B 95, 165139 (2017)
local file | journal link | arXiv:1702.01956
was highlighted by the Journal as Editors' Choice
January 2017: Simon Groth wins the Laser and Particle Beams Prize 2017 for young scientists for his contribution The Uniform Electron Gas at WDM conditions. The prize was awarded at the 37th International Workshop on High Energy Density Physics with Intense Ion and Laser Beams and is worth 2000 Euros.
October 2016: Hauke Thomsen wins the prize for the "Best Phd thesis in the field of Nano Physics" awarded annualy by Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS) for his thesis Melting Processes and Laser Manipulation of Strongly Coupled Yukawa Systems
July 2016: The paper Molecular dynamics simulation of gold cluster growth during sputter deposition by Jan Willem Abraham, Thomas Strunksus, Franz Faupel, and Michael Bonitz, J. Appl. Phys. 119, 185301 (2016)
was highlighted by the Journal of Applied Physics as Editors' Pick
April 2016: The paper Streaming complex plasmas: Ion susceptibility for a partially ionized plasma in parallel electric and magnetic fields by H. Kählert, J.-Ph. Joost, P. Ludwig, and M. Bonitz, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 56, 204 (2016) was designated as Editors' Choice
June 2016: Hauke Thomsen wins one of two awards for the "Best Phd thesis" of the Kiel Physics Department in 2015 for his thesis Melting Processes and Laser Manipulation of Strongly Coupled Yukawa Systems
March 2016: Tobias Dornheim wins the "Best Theory Poster" award for his contribution Thermodynamic Fermionic Monte Carlo Simulations of Continuous Systems without Fixed Nodes
at the DPG-AMOP Spring conference 2016 in Hannover
Co-authors are Tim Schoof, Simon Groth, and Michael Bonitz

December 2015: Niclas Schlünzen wins the "Best Poster" award for his contribution Dynamics of strongly correlated fermions - first principle results for two and three dimensions, (with co-authors Sebastian Hermanns, Michael Bonitz and Claudio Verdozzi)
at the Workshop Isolated many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium: from unitary time evolution to quantum kinetic equations
(599th WE-Heraeus-Seminar), December 2015 in Bad Honnef

April 2015: Tim Schoof wins the "Best Poster" award for his contribution Configuration path integral Monte Carlo simulations of the degenerate homogeneous electron gas (with co-authors Simon Groth, Jan Vorberger and Michael Bonitz)
at the CECAM workshop Stochastic Wavefunction Methods in Quantum Chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory and Condensed Matter Physics, April 21-24 2015 in Lausanne

April 2015: The paper Quantum hydrodynamics for plasmas - a Thomas-Fermi theory perspective by D. Michta, F. Graziani, and M. Bonitz, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 55, 437 (2015) was designated as Editors' Choice

April 2015: The paper A tribute to pioneers of strongly coupled plasmas: Hugh E. DeWitt, Bernard Jancovici, and Forrest J. Rogers by Heather D. Whitley, Angel Alastuey, Jim A. Gaffney, Robert Cauble, Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft, and Michael Bonitz, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 55, 102 (2015) was designated as Editors' Choice

July 2014: Hanno Kählert wins the "Best Theory Poster" award for his contribution Kinetic approach to the dynamics of inhomogeneous strongly coupled plasmas (with co-authors Gabor Kalman and Michael Bonitz) at the Conference Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems, in Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 2014: Michael Bonitz is awarded a grant for computing time a the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord (HLRN). The award grants the Bonitz group 240 kNPL for supercomputing applications in strongly coupled plasmas and intense laser matter interaction and is worth 240.000 Euros.

March 2014: Two "best poster" awards for students at the German Physical Society Spring meeting of the Plasma Physics Division in Berlin:
Jan-Philip Joost wins the Best Undergraduate Poster award for his contribution "Dust grain potential in a flowing magnetized plasma" (with co-authors Christopher Arran, Patrick Ludwig, Hanno Kählert and Michael Bonitz).
Tobias Dornheim wins the Best Theory Poster award for his contribution "Quantum breathing frequency of nanoplasmas" (with co-authors Alexey Filinov, Jan Willem Abraham and Michael Bonitz).

March 2014: Hanno Kählert wins the Young Scientist award at the 7th International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas (ICPDP) in New Delhi, India.

August 2013: The paper
Magnetic field blocks two-dimensional crystallization in strongly coupled plasmas, by T. Ott, H. Löwen, and M. Bonitz,
Physical Review Letters 111, 065001 (2013)
has been highlighted by the PRL editors as Editors' Suggestion
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June 2013: Michael Bonitz has been awarded a research grant from the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the Verbundprojekt FSP 301 - Freie Elektronenlaser, for the project "Zeitaufgelöste Photoionisation am FEL - nichtlineare Effekte, Korrelationen und Kohärenz in Atomen und Molekülen". The support amount is 420.913 Euro for a postdoc and a phd-student for 3 years.

June 2013: Torben Ott wins the prize for the best PhD thesis of the College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät) of Kiel University in 2012.
June 2013: Michael Bonitz is awarded a grant for computing time a the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord (HLRN). The award grants the Bonitz group 100 kNPL for supercomputing applications in strongly coupled plasmas and intense laser matter interaction and is worth 100.000 Euros.
March 2013: Two "best poster" awards for students from the TR24 at the German Physical Society Spring meeting of the Plasma Physics Division in Jena
Kenji Fujioka (project A5) wins the best theory poster award for his contribution "Kinetic Monte Carlo Approach to Cluster Growth in Magnetron Plasmas" (with the co-authors Lasse Rosenthal, Sebastian Wolf and Michael Bonitz). photo of the handover and scan of the certificate
Giedrius Kudelis (project A7) wins the prize for the best undergraduate poster for the poster "Heat Transport in Confined 2D Dust Clusters". This work was done during his summer internship in Kiel in 2012 within the DAAD RISE program and was supervised by Hauke Thomsen who receives the award. photo of the handover and scan of the certificate
June 2012: The paper
Electronic double-excitations in quantum wells: solving the two-time Kadanoff-Baym equations, by K. Balzer, S. Hermanns, and M. Bonitz,
Europhysics Letters 98, 67002 (2012)
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/98/67002
has been designated as Editors' Choice
June 2012: Tim Schoof is awarded the prize for the best diploma thesis of the Kiel Physics Department in 2011/12.
June 2012: Hanno Kählert is awarded a postdoc stipend from DAAD for a research stay at Boston College, USA
April 2012: Torben Ott's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"

Hauke Thomsen

The Triple Correlation function as a tool for structural analysis

March 2012: Michael Bonitz is awarded a grant for computing time a the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord (HLRN). The award grants the Bonitz group 165 kNPL for supercomputing applications in strongly coupled plasmas and intense laser matter interaction and is worth 165.000 Euros.
February 2012: Michael Bonitz is awarded the title "Doctor honoris causa" by the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his contributions to strongly correlated plasmas and condensed matter systems.
As of March 2 2022 I am no longer holding this title
Letter to the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
December 2011: Hanno Kählert's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
November 2011: Michael Bonitz is elected "Fellow" of the American Physical Society. The citation reads:
"For pioneering contributions to the field of strongly correlated classical and quantum plasmas, including the development of a statistical theory and first-principle computer simulations."
October 2011: Karsten Balzer's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
May 2011: Hauke Thomsen is awarded the prize for the best diploma thesis of the Kiel Physics Department in 2010/11.
March 2011: Michael Bonitz is awarded a grant for computing time a the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord (HLRN). The award grants the Bonitz group 195 kNPL for supercomputing applications in strongly coupled plasmas and intense laser matter interaction and is worth 195.000 Euros.
September 2010: Fig. 3c of the paper
Time-dependent second Born calculations for model atoms and molecules in strong laser fields, by K. Balzer, S. Bauch, and M. Bonitz,
Phys. Rev. A 82, 033427 (2010)
has been selected by Physical Review A for the Kaleidoscope
May 2010: Michael Bonitz is awarded a research grant of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) Zeitaufgelöste Photoionisation am FEL - nichtlineare Effekte, Korrelationen und Kohärenz in Atomen und Molekülen. The grant is worth approximately 230.000 Euros and runs three years.
May 2010: Christian Henning wins the prize for the best PhD thesis of the College of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät) of Kiel University in 2009.
May 2010: Christian Henning is awarded the prize for the best theory PhD thesis of the Kiel Physics Department in 2009.
April 2010: Michael Bonitz is awarded a research grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the project Theoretical description of (sub-)femtosecond dynamics of multi-electron atoms in strong UV and VUV fields. The grant is worth approximately 200.000 Euros and runs three years.
January 2010: Michael Bonitz has been elected editor of Contributions to Plasma Physics
December 2009: The paper by Evgeni Krasovski and Michael Bonitz, Towards a theory of an attosecond transient recorder, Physical Review A 80, 053421 (2009), has been selected for the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
June 2009: The paper by Karsten Balzer, Michael Bonitz, Robert van Leeuwen, Niels Erik Dahlen and Adrian Stan, Nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to strongly correlated few-electron quantum dots, Physical Review B 79, 245306 (2009), has been selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
June 2009: Christian Henning's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
April 2009: Hanno Kählert wins award for the best theory Diploma thesis 2008 of the Kiel physics department
December 2008: Patrick Ludwig's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
November 2008: The paper by Sebastian Bauch and Michael Bonitz, Angular distributions of atomic photoelectrons produced in the UV and XUV regimes, Physical Review A 78, 043403 (2008), has been selected for the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
June 2008: Karsten Balzer has been elected to participate in the meeting with Nobel prize winners in Lindau
February 2008: Karsten Balzer wins award for the best Diploma thesis 2007 of the Kiel physics department
December 2007: The paper by Evgeni Krasovski and Michael Bonitz, Spectral Line Shape Variations in Time-Resolved Photoemission from a Solid, Physical Review Letters 99, 247601 (2007), has been selected for the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
November 2007: Kevin Tierney (stayed in our group in summer 2007 with a DAAD-RISE stipend) wins award for the best undergraduate poster at the Division of Plasma Physics conference of the American Physical Society in Orlando. His work was supervised by Henning Baumgartner and supported by Patrick and Christian. The poster is entitled Structural properties of Yukawa tubes by K. Tierney, H. Baumgartner, Ch. Henning and M. Bonitz.
February 2007: Jens Böning, Andrea Fromm and Christian Henning are among the winners of the award for the best Diploma thesis 2006 of the Kiel physics department.
March 2006: The poster of H. Baumgartner, A. Filinov, and M. Bonitz Thermodynamic properties of screened Coulomb balls wins prize for best theory poster at DPG Spring meeting, Augsburg, March 27-30 2006, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, P28.21
March 2002: Michael Bonitz is awarded the Gustav Hertz prize 2002 of the German Physical Society (highest prize for young researchers) see Details

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