Awards

Recently Received Awards

  • Successful Award at EuMIC 2025

    At this year’s European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC) 2025, Vanessa Schöpplein (Wirth), along with her co-authors Sascha Breun, Jens Löffler, Manuel Koch, Michael Loose, Marco Dietz, Christian Carlowitz, Robert Weigel, and Norman Franchi, received a remarkable accolade. Their contribution, titled “Integrated Time Domain Multiplexer for Superconducting Qubit Control at Millikelvin Temperatures,” was awarded the […]

  • Jasmin Gabsteiger wins 1st Place at RWW 2025 Student Paper Contest

    Jasmin Gabsteiger wins 1st Place at the RWW 2025 Student Paper Contest! Congratulations! The Student Paper Contest at RWW 2025 was highly competitive, with over 50 submissions. From these, 16 outstanding papers were selected for the final round, where participants had to present their research in a pitch talk and a poster session. Congratulations to […]

  • Maximilian Lübke wins the VDE Bayern dissertation award

    Maximilian Lübke wins the VDE Bayern dissertation award 2024. Science, business, politics, the media, and society overall face significant challenges that can only be overcome through close cooperation. This makes events such as the VDE Bayern evening event, attended by more than 180 guests at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof München in Munich this year, all […]

  • Angelika S. Thalmayer winns teaching award

    Since 2016, FAU has awarded the annual university-wide teaching prize, in recognition of outstanding excellence in teaching. We are thrilled that this year teaching award of the technical faculty was given to Angelika Thalmayer (Institute for Smart Electronics and Systems). Angelika has been active in teaching as a tutor since WiSe 15/16 and now provides […]

  • LTE wins 2nd place in the Student Design Competition

    At the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2024) in Washington, DC, USA, one of the most important conferences worldwide in the field of high frequency and radio technology, our doctoral students were honored with two international awards. Christof Pfannenmüller and Jasmin Gabsteiger, together with Thomas Kurin (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) and Christian Dorn (Technical University […]

All Awards

  • : RWW2026 Student Sponsorship (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2026
  • : Reviewer Recognition Program (IEEE Sensors Letters) – 2026

  • , , : IEEE APMC 2025 Student Design Competition Second Place Award in the category "Bias-Tee Design for Active Baseband Controlled Load-pull Applications" (IEEE) – 2025
  • : RWW2025 Student Sponsorship (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2025
  • : RWW Student Paper Contest 1st Place (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2025
  • : Outstanding Young Engineer Award (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2025
  • : Young Scientist Award (U.R.S.I. Landesausschuss in Deutschland e.V.) – 2025
  • : Best PhD-Thesis 2024 (FAPS Pronet e. V.) – 2025
  • : Argus Science Award – 4th Place (Hensoldt) – 2025
  • : BayFiD Talent (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Digitales) – 2025

  • : 2024 WAMICON - Student Paper Competition - 2nd Place Award (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society) – 2024
  • : 1. Preis Nachwuchspreis des Fördervereins "Freunde des IHP e.V." (Freunde des IHP e.V.) – 2024
  • : Förderung einer Kongressreise (LASCAS 2024) (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) – 2024
  • : EuRAD Grant (European Microwave Association) – 2024
  • : MTT-S Graduate Fellowship 2024 Award ((IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S))) – 2024
  • , , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition 2nd Place Award for "Tunable Impedance Matching Network" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2024
  • : Roberto Sorrentino Prize (European Microwave Association (EuMA)) – 2024
  • : Promotionspreis (Altair) – 2024
  • : VDE Bayern Dissertations Award (VDE Bayern) – 2024
  • : EuMA Internship Award (European Microwave Association) – 2024
  • : Zweiter Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2024 - Praktikum zu High-Performance Analog- und Umsetzer-Design (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2024
  • , : Best Poster Award (Smart Systems Integration Conference 2024) – 2024
  • : Zweiter Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2024 - Angewandte Elektronik- und Hochfrequenzmesstechnik (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2024
  • : FAU-Lehrpreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler (FAU) – 2024
  • : Student Paper Award Finalist (VDE DGBMT (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik)) – 2024

  • : Best Pitch and Poster Award 3rd Place (Machine Learning in Engineering Conference @ TUHH) – 2023
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award in the category "High-Efficiency Power Amplifier" (IEEE Microwave Theory & Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2023
  • , : Sonderpreis „Junges Unternehmen" 2023 (AMA Verband für Sensorik und Messtechnik e.V.) – 2023
  • , : 1st Place: Altair Global Student Contest (Altair Inc.) – 2023
  • , : Global Student Contest Wild Card (Altair) – 2023
  • : Förderung einer Kongressreise (APMC 2023) (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) – 2023
  • : Argus Science Award Finalist (Hensoldt) – 2023
  • : Dritter Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2023 - Seminar Medical Electronics and Systems for Ambient Assisted Living (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2023
  • : Zweiter Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2023 - Praktikum zu High-Performance Analog- und Umsetzer-Design (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2023
  • : 1. Preis Nachwuchspreis 2023 des Fördervereins „Freunde des IHP e.V.“ (Freunde des IHP e.V.) – 2023
  • : Joint Student Competition 2023, 2ter Platz im Rahmen der BMT 2023 (VDE DGBMT (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik)) – 2023

  • : Travel Grant - EMBL Conference: Microfluidics 2022 (EMBL Corporate Partnership Programme) – 2022
  • , , : Student Best Paper Finalist (IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society) – 2022
  • , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award in the category "High-Efficiency Power Amplifier" (IEEE Microwave Theory & Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2022
  • : EuMIC Young Engineer Prize (EuMA - European Microwave Association) – 2022
  • : IMS2022 PhD Student Sponsorship (IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S)) – 2022
  • , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition 2nd Place Award for "Design of a Self-Interference Cancellation Coupler" (IEEE) – 2022
  • , : Best Pitch Award - Summer School for Machine Learning in Engineering (Hamburg University of Technology) – 2022
  • : IEEE ISAF-PFM-ECAPD (Student Travel Grant Award) – 2022
  • : FAU-Lehrpreis für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)) – 2022
  • : IMS2022 PhD Student Sponsorship (EEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2022
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition Second Place Award for "High-Sensitivity Motion Sensing Radar" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2022
  • : Erster Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2022 - Praktikum für systematischen Entwurf programmierbarer Logikbausteine (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2022
  • : Zweiter Platz Lehrevaluation Sommersemester 2022 - Praktikum zu High-Performance Analog- und Umsetzer-Design (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2022
  • , , , : MedtecLIVE Talent Award (3ter Platz) (MedtecLIVE Messe Stuttgart) – 2022

  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award for "High-Sensitivity Motion Sensing Radar" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2021
  • , : Metamaterials 2021 - ONR/NSF Student Grants (Office for Naval Research and the National Science Foundation) (Organizing committee Metamaterials 2021) – 2021
  • : Young Scientist Award (YSA) im Rahmen der Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021 (URSI Landesausschuss in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.) – 2021
  • , , , : Young Scientist Best Paper Award, 1ter Platz (Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021) (URSI Landesausschuss in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.) – 2021
  • : Young Scientist Award (YSA) im Rahmen der Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021 (URSI Landesausschuss in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.) – 2021
  • , , , : Young Scientist Best Paper Award, 3ter Platz (Kleinheubacher Tagung 2021) (URSI Landesausschuss in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.) – 2021

  • , , , , , , : Best Paper Award (12th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies) – 2020
  • , , : Best Paper Award of 5th International Conference on Water Sciences – 2020
  • : FAU TechFak Lehrevaluierung, Rang 2 von 20 auf der Bestenliste ÜG5 für Übung Grundlagen der Elektrotechnik I – 2020
  • : Förderung einer Kongressreise (WiSNet2020) (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) – 2020
  • : Auszeichnung für die Lehre am FAPS (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl FAPS) – 2020
  • : Young Scientist Award (YSA) im Rahmen der Kleinheubacher Tagung 2020 (URSI Landesausschuss in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.) – 2020

  • , : Finalist for the IEEE Young Professionals Best Paper Award for "The Phase Noise and Clock Synchronous Carrier Frequency Offset based RF Fingerprinting for the Fake Base Station Detection" (IEEE WAMICON) – 2019
  • , : IEEE Best Student Paper Award (1st Place) for "Symbol Based Statistical RF Fingerprinting for Fake Base Station Identification" (IEEE Czechoslovakia Section at MAREW) – 2019
  • , , , , , , , , , , : Best Paper Award, ACM NanoCom 2019 (6th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication) – 2019
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition Second Place Award for "Carrier Aggregation BAW Quadplexer Module" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2019
  • , , , : IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint / Sendai Chapters EMC 2019 Student Award (IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint / Sendai Chapters) – 2019
  • , : EuMW 2019 Student Challenge Prize (European Microwave Week 2019) – 2019
  • , , : Radio Wireless Week Student Paper Competition, 1st Place (IEEE) – 2019
  • : R&S Cup Online DPD Competition Second Place Award for: "Linearization of a 2-channel MIMO transmitter with crosstalk" (Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG) – 2019
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award for "Power Amplifier Linearization through Digital Predistortion (DPD)" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2019
  • : Förderung einer Kongressreise (RWS2019) (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) – 2019
  • , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award for "High-Sensitivity Motion Sensing Radar" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2019

  • : IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2018
  • : Young Scientist Award (Kleinheubacher Tagung) (U.R.S.I. Member Committee Germany) – 2018
  • : Best Oral Talk Prize (Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor & Actuator Symposium (SAW Symposium 2018)) – 2018
  • : Erlangen-Nürnberg Excellence Track (ENET) 2016-2018 (Leistungszentrum Elektroniksysteme (LZE)) – 2018
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award for "High-Sensitivity Fast-Response Motion Sensing Radar" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2018
  • : IMS2018 PhD Student Sponsorship (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2018
  • , , : Graduate Student Challenge Award 2018 (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2018

  • : 1st place on BR41N.IO Brain-computer Interface Hackathon (g.tec medical engineering) – 2017
  • : Excellent oral presentation certificate (International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering) – 2017
  • , , , , , , : IEEE IUS 2017 Student Paper Competition Award (IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society) – 2017
  • : Leo-Brandt-Preis 2017 "DGON Master of Navigation" (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation e.V.) – 2017
  • : Nominiert für Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis für exzellente Lehre in den Ingenieurwissenschaften (4ING - Fakultätentage der Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Informatik an Universitäten e.V.) – 2017
  • , , , , , : Preis der ITG 2017 (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG)) – 2017
  • , , : IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Student Design Competition First Place Award for "High-Sensitivity Fast-Response Motion Sensing Radar" (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2017
  • : SEMIKRON Student Award (SEMIKRON Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG) – 2017
  • : Argus 2017 Science Award - Endrunde (Hensoldt) – 2017
  • , , , , , , : Second Prize Student Paper Competition (IEEE Radio and Wireless Week) – 2017

  • : 1. Platz Lehrevaluation WS2015/16 Produktentwicklung Intregrierter Systeme (Analog/Mixed-Signal) (Technische Fakultät der FAU) – 2016
  • : Full stipend for visiting researcher at Beijing University (Chinese Scholarship Council) – 2016
  • : Excellent Oral Presentation Certificate (ICEEE 2017) – 2016
  • : Young Professionals Special Prize (IEEE madC) – 2016
  • : IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Award (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2016
  • , : Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) – Europe Design Contest - First Round Winners (Texas Instruments) – 2016
  • , , , , : Excellent Demo Track Presentation (Radio and Wireless Week) – 2016

  • : 3rd Winner of Healthcare Innovation Camp 2015 (Medical Valley EMN) – 2015
  • : Leo-Brandt-Preis 2015 (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation e.V.) – 2015
  • : ETSI standardization work in the field of PMSE (radio-mic) cognitive radio (European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)) – 2015
  • : Expert in Specialist Task Force 386 (European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)) – 2015
  • , , , , , , : Best Paper Award: Reliability of Space-Grade vs. COTS SRAM-based FPGA in N-Modular Redundancy (NASA/ESA Adaptive Hardware and Systems) – 2015
  • : Young scientist award (European Microwave Association) – 2015
  • : Fritz und Maria Hofmann-Preis 2015 (Technische Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2015
  • , , , , , : RWW2015 Best Demonstration Award - 2nd place (2015 IEEE Radio and Wireless Week) – 2015
  • , : 1st Place High Efficiency Power Amplifier Student Design Competition (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2015
  • , , , : Software Defined Radio and Digital Signal Processing Student Design Competition - First Place (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2015
  • , , , , : WiSNet Student Paper Competition, Second Place (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2015

  • : German Academic Exchange Service's (DAAD) STIBET Final Year Scholarship for Master's Degree (DAAD) – 2014
  • , , , : Certificate of Recognition (European Microwave Conference) – 2014
  • , , : CATRENE 2014 Innovation Award – Most Innovative Project (Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on NanoElectronics) – 2014
  • : IHP-Nachwuchspreis 2014 (Freunde des IHP e.V.) – 2014
  • : PhD Student Sponsorship Initiative (IEEE MTT-S Administrative Comitee) – 2014
  • : Rohde u. Schwarz Best Bachelor Award (Technische Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2014
  • : PhD Student Sponsorship Initiative (International Microwave Symposium 2014, sponsored by the IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee) – 2014
  • : Master-Preis der Siemens Corporate Technology (Technische Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) – 2014
  • , , , , , , : Best Paper Award (IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks) – 2014
  • , : IEEE MTT-S High Sensitivity Radar Student Design Competition - 1st place (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S)) – 2014
  • , , , , : EUMC Young Engineer Prize (EUMA European Microwave Association) – 2014
  • , : 1st Place High Efficiency Power Amplifier Student Design Competition (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2014
  • : VDE Masterpreis ({VDE}-Bezirksverein Nordbayern {e.V.}) – 2014

  • : Best Paper Award (Automotive meets Electronics (AmE)) – 2013
  • , , : Winner Student High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design Competition - International Microwave Symposium (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2013
  • : Best Paper Award (5th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems) – 2013

  • : 1st Place Design Competition High Efficiency Power Amplifier - International Microwave Symposium (IEEE MTT-5) – 2012
  • : Stipendium für die Masterarbeit (Stiftung Industrieforschung) – 2012
  • : 1st Place Design Competition High Efficiency Power Amplifier - International Microwave Symposium (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2012
  • : Graduate Fellowship Award ({IEEE} Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2012

  • : ETSI expert specialist (European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)) – 2011
  • , , : 1. Platz Elektronik Ecodesign Preis (Elektronik) – 2011
  • , , : 2nd Prize 4th European Microwave Week Student Challenge (European Microwave Week) – 2011
  • , , : 2. Platz {EEEfCOM} Innovationspreis 2011 (EEEfCOM) – 2011

  • : Chairman der "ETSI Specialist Task Force #386" (Association of professional wireless production tecnology (APWPT)) – 2010
  • , , , : 1. Platz {EEEfCOM} Innovationspreis 2010 ({GEROTRON} {COMUNNICATION} GmbH) – 2010

  • , , , : Best student paper award (Mediterranean Microwave Symposium) – 2009
  • : 2nd Place {ASH} Receiver Student Design Competition 2010 (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2009
  • : Second Place Student Competition for Low Noise Amplifier Design (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2009

  • : Nominiert für Zukunftspreis des Deutschen Bundespräsidenten (Bundesregierung) – 2008
  • : 1st Place Student Competition for Low-Power Consumption FM Radio Received Design (IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society) – 2008