Titus Neupert Wins Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

Physicist from the University of Zurich to receive award on November 14, 2019 at Freie Universität Berlin. No 288/2019 from Oct 08, 2019 Physics professor Titus Neupert has been selected as this year's recipient of the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award. The jury based their decision on the University of Zurich researcher's outstanding contributions to his field through his work on theoretical predictions of novel "topological" phases of matter, in particular fractional Chern insulators and higher-order topological insulators. The award comes with 60,000 euros in prize money and will be officially presented to Professor Neupert on November 14, 2019 in the Henry Ford Building at Freie Universität. Professor Roderich Moessner of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden will give an introductory talk. Professor Jörg Schmalian from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will give the laudatory speech. The event will be held in German.