Awarded Otto Haxel Dissertation Prize for Physics

Abstract

Awarded annually for the three best doctoral dissertations in physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg. I received the 1^st rank award for 2025, endowed with €6,000. Since 2017, the prize has been awarded by the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. (KFG) of KIT, in collaboration with the German Physical Society (DPG), in honor of nuclear physicist Otto Haxel (1909–1998), who conducted his research at these three institutions.

Klaus Paschek

Postdoc - Astrophysics

My research interests include prebiotic synthesis, planetary science, and the origins of life.