Awardees 2024

 

Florian Brandstetter is a renowned recorder player who performs on international stages around the world. His concert activities include both solo and ensemble performances, ranging from intimate chamber music evenings to large concert and opera productions. Throughout his career, Brandstetter has been awarded multiple national and international prizes for his outstanding achievements. In addition to his musical career, Brandstetter is also an educator, teaching at music schools as well as at conservatories and universities.Since the founding of the Austrian Recorder Academy (ARA), he has served as a lecturer, contributing significantly to the education of young recorder players with his expertise and dedication. Brandstetter is the founder and artistic director of „MokkaBarock“, an ensemble which is dedicated to the performance of early music on historical instruments. Under his direction, the ensemble has given numerous concerts and achieved success in national and international competitions. Brandstetter has a particular interest in the creation of historical music editions, especially modern first editions. His editions are characterized by careful editing and scholarly precision, and have already been included in masterclass programs. His latest project focuses on „Ayres for the violin“ by Nicola Matteis, for which no modern edition currently exists. The Dieter W. Bäuerle Prize enables him to explore and carefully edit this work, making it accessible to musicians and musicologists.

 

Dr. Marinus Huber studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, completing his master's thesis at Harvard University. For his PhD at Ludwig Maximilian University, he developed a novel infrared spectroscopy method, known as field-resolved spectroscopy, utilizing fs-laser sources. His work led to the creation of the most sensitive spectrometer for analysing liquids in the mid-infrared wavelength range to date. He continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Friedrich Schiller University, and the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, where he focused on innovative biomedical applications of field-resolved spectroscopy for analysing liquids and cells.

 

Dr. Anton Rudenko is a research scientist with expertise in ultrashort laser-matter interactions modeling for applications in nanostructuring and light manipulation at the nanoscale. He received his PhD in optics and photonics at Lyon University in France in 2017, continued his research in Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France in 2017-2019 developing multiphysics models to predict self-organization of periodic nanostructures induced by ultrashort laser [1], and then in the group of Prof. Jerome V. Moloney in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA in 2019-2024, working on different problems from laser shattering of the atmospheric water droplets for fog clearing [2] to harmonic generation from nanostructured materials [3], and nanovoid formation in the bulk of solids. Dr. Rudenko is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Computational Nanophotonics led by Prof. Lora Ramunno at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada and will soon join the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) to pursue his career in France.

[1] Amplification and regulation of periodic nanostructures in multipulse ultrashort laser-induced surface evolution by electromagnetic-hydrodynamic simulations,

Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 99, 235412, 2019.

[2] Plasma-free water droplet shattering by long-wave infrared ultrashort laser pulses for efficient fog clearing, Optica, Vol. 7, No. 2, 115-122 (2020).

[3] High-harmonic generation from a subwavelength dielectric resonator, Science Advances, Vol. 9, 7, eadg2655 (2023). 

 

 

Awardees 2022

 

Alexander Nicholls is an award-winning violoncellist, and musicologist specialising performance and study of eighteenth-century music. He holds degrees in both music performance from the Juilliard School (USA), and The University of Western Australia, as well as a musicology degree from The University of Sydney (AUS). Alexander is currently undertaking his doctoral studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (AT) under the supervision of Dr Clive Brown where he is studying the violoncello performing practices of King Friedrich Wilhelm II (1744–1797) and his court. His investigations into the music and performing practices of Berlin in the eighteenth-century have led to the production of two CDs of Berlin composer Johann Gottlieb Janitsch [1708–1762] with Brilliant Classics [1-2], as well as co-authoring alongside Univ.-Doz. Dr. Helmut Kowar (Universität Wien) notes for the publication of the Kleemeyer 170 Flötenuhr collection with Cuvillier [3]. The 2022 Dieter W. Bäuerle Award for Music will provide Alexander the opportunity to undertake a digitisation project of eighteenth-century mechanical instruments from Berlin.

 

[1] Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Janitsch Trio Sonatas, Berlin Friday Academy, Berlin 2020, Brilliant Classics, EAN 5028421959771, https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/j/janitsch-trio-sonatas/

[2] Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Janitsch Church Sonatas, Berlin Friday Academy, Brilliant Classics, Berlin 2022 [Forthcoming]

[3] Kowar, Helmut: Kleemeyer 170. Dittersdorf, Haydn, Martín y Soler und Pleyel auf den zwölf Walzen der Flötenuhr Nr. 170 von Christian Ernst Kleemeyer, Berlin. Göttingen 2015, Cuvillier, ISBN 978-3-95404-975-2, https://cuvillier.de/es/shop/publications/6954-kleemeyer-170

 

 

Dr. Dasha Nelidova is a medical doctor and biophysics researcher at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland. As an undergraduate, she studied at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She read medical statistics at the University of Oxford and genomic medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD in biophysics and neuroscience was performed at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland. Dr. Nelidova works on new translational technologies for treating retinal diseases that lead to blindness [1, 2]. She combines gene therapy, photonics and materials science to bring back retinal sensitivity to light. 

 

[1] Engineering near-infrared vision. Science 370, 925 (2020).
[2] Restoring light sensitivity using tunable near-infrared sensors.
Science 368, 1108-1113 (2020).

 

 

 

Awardees 2020

 

Dr. Sebastian “Nino” Karpf is a Juniorprofessor for translational biomedical photonics at the Institute of Biomedical Optics (BMO), Universität zu Lübeck, Germany. Before, he was a PostDoc in Prof. Bahram Jalali’s group at University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Karpf realized a new strategy which utilizes a wavelength swept FDML laser in combination with a diffraction grating to achieve very fast line scanning together with high-speed fluorescence lifetime imaging (the so called SLIDE microscope) [1], spectrally-scanned time-stretch LiDAR [2] and time-encoded stimulated Raman microscopy [3]. Currently, Dr. Karpf and his group develop novel laser light sources, microscopy techniques and apply them in biomedical imaging.

 

[1] Spectro-temporal encoded multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging at kilohertz frame-rates, Nature Communications 11, Article number: 2062 (2020)

[2] Time-stretch LiDAR as a spectrally scanned time-of-flight ranging camera,
Nature Photonics 14, pages 14-18 (2020)

[3] A Time-Encoded Technique for fibre-based hyperspectral broadband stimulated Raman microscopy, Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6784 (2015)

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Maxim Shugaev is a scientist at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, USA. At the same university, he received a PhD in Applied Physics in the group of Leonid Zhigilei in 2019. Despite his young age, he has an impressive oeuvre of publications in the field of computational laser-matter interactions with a specific focus on ultrafast interactions [1-3]. His interest comprises surface morphology and microstructure modifications, laser generated acoustic waves, the thermodynamics of laser-induced forward transfer, and the generation of nanoparticles using pulsed laser ablation in liquids.

 

[1] Molecular dynamics modeling of nonlinear propagation of surface acoustic waves, Journal of Applied Physics 128, 045117 (2020)

[2] Thermodynamic analysis and atomistic modeling of subsurface cavitation in photomechanical spallation, Computational Materials Science 166, 311 (2019)

[3] Mechanism of single-pulse ablative generation of laser-induced periodic surface structures, Phys. Rev. B 96,