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Ceremony 2013

The Caroline von Humboldt Professorship was awarded for the second time in 2013 and went to the Physicist Prof Dr Dr h.c. Claudia Draxl.

Maria Arnholm, Swedish Minister for Gender Equality, was the guest of honour. The laudatio was held by the Swedish Physicist and member of the Nobel Prize Committee Prof. Dr. Börje Johansson. Claudia Draxl is an internationally renowned top-lever researcher and has worked at the department for Theoretic Solid State Theory at HU since 2011. Part of her work focuses on the interaction and excitation in nanostructures and hybrid material.

  • Impressions of the ceremony

  • Article in the humboldt chancengleich special edition "Lise Meitner" [in German]

  • Prof. Claudia Draxl's website at HU