Emerging Talent Award of the "Friends of IHP" association

Until May 5^th, 2025, students can submit their outstanding theses for the Germany-wide Young Talent Award 2025 of the "Friends of IHP". The association has been supporting young researchers with this award since 2005. Prize money totalling up to 1,200 euros is awarded each year. The first prize, worth 500 euros, is once again sponsored this year by Deutsche Bank, a long-standing partner of the award.

We are looking for theses that are thematically related to the research areas of IHP - Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics. This includes materials research, semiconductor technologies, circuit design, wireless systems and system architectures.

The closing date for applications for the Young Talent Award is May 5^th, 2025. Awards will be decided by a jury appointed by the board of the "Friends of IHP" association. Legal recourse is excluded.

The theses and their assessments by the supervising professors must be submitted as a PDF file by e-mail. Please include your contact address or postal address.
The award ceremony will take place at IHP on June 25^th, 2025.

Contact and application address: 
"Freunde des IHP e. V." 
Franziska Wegner
Im Technologiepark 25
15236 Frankfurt (Oder)
Fon: 0335 5625 205
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Poster 2025
Evaluation criteria 2025 (in German)

Award winners 2024

1st Prize with 500 €
Patrick Eder from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg for his Master's thesis „Design und Aufbau eines modularen, kaskadierten mmWave MIMO-Radarsystems“

1st Prize with 500 €
Niklas Dreyer from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg for his Master's thesis „Korrelation von strukturellen und optischen Eigenschaften einer InGaN/InGaN μLED-Struktur auf porösem GaN-Puffer“

3rd Prize with 300 €
Harshan Gowda Malavalli Nagaraju from Paderborn University for his master's thesis „Design and Analysis of PAM-4 Bang-Bang Phase Detector for High-speed Half-rate CDR circuit in 22nm FDSOI“

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To the archive of previous award winners