CeNS Travel Awards

CeNS announces a limited number of Travel Awards for LMU CeNS associates. The travel awards can be used for active participation (talk or poster) in a scientific conference or workshop. The awardees are selected by the CeNS board.

Researchers looking at posters at a CeNS workshop in Venice

Who can apply?

LMU CeNS associates who plan to present their research at a conference or workshop.
PhD students and postdocs must be employed at LMU (exception: scholarship holders).

Submission guideline

Applicants should fill in the application form (PDF, 106 KB) and submit it to Susanne Hennig.
Please note that as a maximum two applications per research group and per closing date will be accepted. If there will be more applicants from one group, the group leader will be asked to pre-select two candidates. Application deadlines: January 15 // April 15 // July 15 // October 15

Previous awardees

Jonathan Förste, AG Högele: Talk at the OFC 2025 (Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition), San Francisco

Andrés Díez Carlón, AG Efetov: Talk at the APS March Meeting, California

Edoardo Mariani, AG Cortés: Poster at the Gordon Research Conference: Plasmonically Powered Processes

Andrei Stefancu, AG Cortés: Poster at the Gordon Research Conference: Plasmonically Powered Processes

Xin Yin, AG Liedl: Talk at the 15th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Malaga

Andreas Aigner, AG Tittl: Poster at 2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibition, Boston

Kushagra Gahlot, AG Feldmann: Invited talk at MATSUS Fall 2024, Lausanne

Ziria Herdegen, AG Müller-Caspary: Talk at the European microscopy conference, Copenhagen

Haoyu Hu, AG Tittl: Invited talk at Conference on nano-photonics nano-optoelectronics, and quantum technology, Tokyo

Merve-Zeynep Kesici, AG Tinnefeld: Invited talk at the Single Molecule Biophysics, Les Houches/France

Judith Müller, AG Rädler: Talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy

Evangelina Pensa, AG Urban/Cortés: Invited talk at the 45th PIERS (PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium), Chengdu

Gregor Posnjak, AG Liedl: Invited talk at MRS Fall Meeting, Boston

Jonas Tittel, AG Lamb: Poster at 28th International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy – ICORS 2024, Rome/

Shen Zhao, AG Högele: Talk at the NT24, Boston

Ecenaz Bilgen, Poster at the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting

Ece Büber, Talk at 20th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience Utah

Tom Burkart, Talk at STATPHYS28, Tokyo & ICBP, Seoul

Marvin Freitag, Poster at Biophysical Society Meeting San Diego

Fabian Knechtel, Talk at 5th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers, Granada

Maryam Kurashvili, Poster at the Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium 2023

Carina Schmitt, Poster/Talk at the Photopharmacology IV, Hong Kong

Dr. Farsane Tabataba-Vakili, Invited Talk at SPIE Optics & Photonics 2023 San Diego

Dr. Samarth Vadia, Talk at META Paris

Ilka Vincon, Talk at STECH23 Vàlencia

Thomas Weber, Talk at SPIE Optics & Photonics 2023 San Diego

Mihir Dass, Talk at MRS Fall Meeting Boston (27.11.-02.12.2022)

Julian Gargiuolo, Talk at NANOPLASM 2022: Frontiers in Plasmonics and Nano-Photonics (13.-17.06.2022)

Andreas Gouder, Discussion leader and poster at Gordon Research Conference & GRS Fundamentals to Applied Electrochemistry, Ventura/USA (10.-16.09.2022)

Matias Herran, Poster at Noble Metals Gordon Research Conference USA (12.-17.06.2022)

Johannes Heyn, Poster at Physics of cells: PhysCell2022 Israel (11.-16.09.2022)

Michael Lichtenegger, Talk at MRS Fall Meeting Boston (27.11.-02.12.2022)

Thomas Matreux, Talk at oLife Annual Meeting 2022 Groningen (02.-04.11.2022)

Gregor Posnjak, Talk at META 2022 Spain (19.-22.07.2022)

Michael Scheckenbach, Poster at Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Symposium 2022 (29.-31.08.2022)

Lukas Zeisel, Talk at EMBO Workshop "Thiol oxidation in biology: Biochemical mechanisms to physiological outcomes" (80.-13.10.2022)

Nina Henke, Contributed talk at MRS Spring Meeting, Honolulu (08.- 13.05.2021)

Nicola Kerschbaumer, Talk at SPIE Photonics West OPTO conference, Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology II, San Francisco (22.- 27.01.2021)

Andreas Singldinger, Contributed talk at MRS Spring Meeting, Honolulu (08.- 13.05.2022)

Luca Sortino, Talk at 2021 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (29.11.- 02.12.2021)

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"The CeNS Travel Award provided me with the invaluable opportunity to present my findings at one of the largest international conferences on gene and cell therapy. This experience significantly enhanced my data presentation skills and enabled me to connect with leading experts in the field, not just across Europe but around the globe."

Judith Müller, former CeNS PhD student at the LMU Faculty of Physics