Oldenburg. Prof Dr Sascha Schäfer, nanophysicist and Lichtenberg Professor at the University of Oldenburg since 2017, has received the Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society (DPG). The award is endowed with prize money of 10,000 euros and is presented for outstanding work by young researchers in the field of solid-state physics. Schäfer received the certificate at the spring conference of the Condensed Matter Section in Berlin.

With this award, the DPG honours Schäfer's achievements in the development of a novel method for imaging fast processes in the nanoworld - ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (UTEM). This technique can be used to investigate energy transport on very small length scales and at extremely short time intervals, such as the generation and control of charge carriers by light or the propagation of lattice vibrations in solids.

Schäfer studied chemistry at TU Darmstadt, where he obtained his doctorate in 2008, before conducting research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in the working group of the late Nobel Prize winner Prof Dr Ahmed H. Zewail. From 2012 to 2017, he worked at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in the group of Prof Dr Claus Ropers as a postdoctoral researcher. In Oldenburg, he has headed the "Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics" working group since September 2017.

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