Grants & Awards

2025

FY 2026 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

funding from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

2023

R&D 100 Award 2023 for "The Cryo-FE: A Near-Monochromatic Tuneable

Cryogenic Niobium Electron Field Emitter for Ultra-High-Resolution Electron

Microscopy and Spectroscopy"

2023 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Program grant from Berkeley Lab
2023 Research grant from the Department of Energy in Electron Cryo-Microscopy

2023

SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) phase II grants from the Department of Energy (collaboration with partners from industry)

2020

R&D 100 Award 2020 for the "Matter-wave modulating secure quantum communicator (MMQ-Com)"

2020

Two SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) phase II grants from the Department of Energy (collaboration with partners from industry)

2018

Research grant from the Department of Energy in Quantum Information Science (together with colleagues)

2017 – 2019

Research grant from the Vector-Foundation

2016 – 2017

Research grant from the University of Tübingen
2016        

Research grant from the German Research Foundation to initiate an

international cooperation with Stanford University

2016 – 2017 Research grant from the Vector-Foundation
2015 – 2016 Research grant from the German Research Foundation
2015 – 2018 Research grant from the German Research Foundation
2010 – 2015 Emmy Noether research grant from the German Research Foundation
2006 – 2007 Marie Curie ER Fellowship
2002 Merit-based scholarship from the University of Vienna
1998 – 1999 Erasmus foreign exchange scholarship