BCF member receives research award: Jens Timmer, physicist at the University of Freiburg and member of the BCF, received the Hector research award.
17.02.2011: He shares this honour with two other scientists. The award comes with a prize money of 150,000 € for each of the laureates. The Hector Foundation II awarded the prize in recognition of both Timmer's groundbreaking research and his merits in teaching.
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At the Bernstein Center Freiburg, Jens Timmer is principal investigator in two projects:
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At the award ceremony: Hans-Jochen Schiewer (Rector of the University of Freiburg), Peter Frankenberg (Minister of Science), Jens Timmer and the award's founders, Josephine and Hans-Werner Hector (from left)
Press release by the University of Freiburg (in German)