Winners of the Nano Innovation Award 2025 Announced

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The Center for NanoScience has awarded the Nano Innovation Award 2025 to three outstanding early-career scientists for their exceptional PhD research in nanoscience and its potential for technological application. In collaboration with the CeNS spin-off companies attocube systems, ibidi, Nanion Technologies, and NanoTemper Technologies, the award highlights innovative work that bridges scientific excellence with real-world impact.

• 1st Prize: Eduard Unterauer (LMU/MPI of Biochemistry)
  For developing SUM-PAINT, a novel super-resolution microscopy method that enables spatial proteomics at single-protein resolution. SUM-PAINT is already being used to investigate neurodegenerative diseases and is being commercialized in partnership with Massive Photonics.
• 2nd Prize: Christoph Gruber (LMU)
  For inventing a high-throughput optical method for analyzing quantum dots on the single-particle level. His work led to the founding of iNSyT Technologies, which offers cutting-edge optical solutions for materials science.
• 3rd Prize: Gabriel Moya (LMU / TU Dortmund)
  For creating Brick-MIC, a fully 3D-printed, modular microscope platform that enables portable, user-friendly single-molecule detection—now the foundation of a future start-up.

The Nano Innovation Award reflects CeNS’s commitment to supporting interdisciplinary, application-driven research and nurturing the next generation of scientific entrepreneurs.