Dieter Rampacher Prize

Every year, the Max Planck Society awards the Dieter Rampacher Prize to a doctoral student. The main criterion is that a particularly rapid doctorate was successfully completed at a Max Planck Institute at a young age. The award was first endowed in 1984 by Hermann Rampacher, a Supporting Member of the Max Planck Society, in memory of his brother, Dieter Rampacher, a physics student at the TH Stuttgart, who was killed in action in 1945 at the age of 20. Since 2011, Carsten A. Rampacher, the founder's son, and his management consultancy, which is also a supporting member of the Max Planck Society, have been financing the prize.

Winners of the Dieter Rampacher Prize since 1984


2023

Dr. rer. nat. Aaron Peikert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development  - Center for Lifespan Psychology, Berlin

2022

Dr Anja Geller, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich

2021

Ke Wang,  Ph.D, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena
Philip Wellnitz, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken

2020

Gary Becigneul, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen

2019

Susanna Sabin, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

2018

Dr. rer. nat. Lena Funcke, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute), Munich

2017

Dr. rer. nat. Deepan Basu, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig

2016

Dr. Lucas Clemente, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching

2015

Dr. Michael Maseda, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg

2014

Chaitanya Giri, PhD., Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen

2013

Dr. Moritz Rodenhausen, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

2012

Dr. Eliza Jean Harris, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz

2011

Dr. Vivek Pachauri, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

2010

Dr. Benjamin Sprenger, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen

2009

Dr. Holger Pletsch, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam

2008

Dr. Anna Fischer, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam

2007

Dr. Sebastian Martens, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

2006

Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart

2005

Dr. Torsten Brezesinski, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

2004

Dr. Philipp Angenendt, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin

2003

Dr. Ingrid Fischbach, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz

2002

Dr. Ina Bornkessel, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig

2001

Dr. Christiane Kirchhof, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

2000

Dr. Robert Helling, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam

1999

Dr. Matthias Leistner, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition and Tax Law, Munich

1998

Dr. Ralf Demuth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

1997

Dr. Loretta Würtenberger, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition and Tax Law, Munich

1996

Dr. Torsten Fiebig, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

1995

Dr. Jens Niemeyer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching

1994

Dr. Wolfgang Helbig, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

1993

Dr. Christoph Cordes, Max Planck Institute for Patent Law (formerly MPI for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law), Munich

1992

Dr. Regine Wenz, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

1991

Dr. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz

1990

Dr. Sibylle Stephan, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg

1989

Dr. Christoph Hartl, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg

1988

Dr. Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen

1987

Dr. Claus Rettig, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

1986

Dr. Harald Schwager, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

1985

Dr. Rolf-Dieter Reinhardt, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim

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