The 7th International Conference on Advanced Nanoparticle Generation and Excitation by Lasers in Liquids (ANGEL)

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, May 26-30, 2024


   ANGEL Awards

Best student poster presentation awards
selected based on the number of votes received from all non-student participants
1st place 2nd place 3rd place
Chaobo Chen
University of Virginia, USA
Nadine Stratmann
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Sergio Fernández Molina-Prados
Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Chen - Award Stratmann - Award Molina-Prados - Award

Best student oral presentation awards
selected based on the number of votes received from all non-student participants
1st place 2nd place
Maximilian Spellauge
Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jan Lino Kricke
University of Wuppertal, Germany
Tina Friedenauer
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Spellauge - Award Kricke - Award Friedenauer Award

Shafeev Award
Named after one of the most daring pioneers in the field of laser-based synthesis of nanoparticles, Georgy Shafeev, the award is granted every two years to a young scientist at the undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral level, whose work represents a particularly creative scientific achievement or an idea in the field of advanced nanoparticle generation and excitation by lasers in liquids.
Anna Rosa Ziefuss
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

News Story
Award trophy in the Central Park Ziefuss - Shafeev Award

Fojtik Henglein Award
Named after the inventors of the laser-based synthesis of nanoparticle colloids, Arnim Henglein and Anton Fojtik, the Award is given every two years to a leading scientist whose work represents a significant scientific breakthrough in the field of laser synthesis and processing of colloids.
Heinz P. Huber
Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Katharine M. Tibbetts
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Huber - Award past Fojtik-Henglein awardees Tibbetts - Award

All ANGEL-2024 Awardees
All ANGEL-7 awardees, Charlottesville, May 30, 2024
    Anton Fojtik
Surprise greetings from Anton Fojtik

MP4 movie of the whole award ceremony (133 MB)     movie of the whole award ceremony

Past Fojtik Henglein awardees:

2018: Bilal Gökce, University of Wuppertal, Germany, "for a highly cited article on increasing the productivity of laser-based nanoparticle production" (news story)

2021: Leonid V. Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA, "for valuable atomistic predictions of nanoparticle formation during laser ablation in liquid" (news story)

2021: Anton Plech, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, "for work on in situ x-ray studies, discovering structural dynamics in laser ablation and laser fragmentation in liquid" (news story)


Student Awards 2016
Student Awards, 2016
    Student Awards 2018
Student Awards, 2018
    Fojtik Henglein Prize 2018
Fojtik Henglein Prize, 2018