Each year the Max Planck Society awards the Dieter Rampacher Prize to its youngest Ph.D. candidates usually between the ages of 25 and 27 for their outstanding doctoral work. The purpose of the prize is to provide an incentive for young scientists and researchers to work on their Ph.D.. The award was first endowed in 1984 by Hermann Rampacher, a Supporting Member of the Max Planck Society, in memory of his brother, Dieter Rampacher, a physics student at the TH Stuttgart, who was killed in action in 1945 at the age of 20. Since 2011 Carsten A. Rampacher, the sponsors son, who is also Supporting Member of the Max Planck Society, finances the prize.
Dr. Lucas Clemente, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching
Age at receiving doctorate: 23
Dr. Michael Maseda, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Chaitanya Giri, PhD., Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Moritz Rodenhausen, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Eliza Jean Harris, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
Age at receiving doctorate: 24
Dr. Vivek Pachauri, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Age at receiving doctorate: 24
Dr. Benjamin Sprenger
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Holger Pletsch, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam
Age at receiving doctorate: 27
Dr. Anna Fischer, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Sebastian Martens, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Torsten Brezesinski, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Philipp Angenendt, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Ingrid Fischbach, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
Age at receiving doctorate: 27
Dr. Ina Bornkessel, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig
Age at receiving doctorate: 22
Dr. Christiane Kirchhof, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Robert Helling, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Matthias Leistner, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition and Tax Law, Munich
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Ralf Demuth, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Loretta Würtenberger, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition and Tax Law, Munich
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Torsten Fiebig, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Jens Niemeyer, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
Dr. Wolfgang Helbig, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Christoph Cordes, Max Planck Institute for Patent Law, Munich
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Regine Wenz, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
Age at receiving doctorate: 23
Dr. Sibylle Stephan, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
Age at receiving doctorate: 24
Dr. Christoph Hartl, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Claus Rettig, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Harald Schwager, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 25
Dr. Rolf-Dieter Reinhardt, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim
Age at receiving doctorate: 26
