For the first time, Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH have jointly awarded a doctoral candidate award. The laureate is Dr. Mohammad Shahab Sanjari who received the award for his dissertation on particle detection in storage rings. The award, which is endowed with a € 1,000 prize, was presented by Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG Management Board Member Nathalie Benedikt together with GSI Director of Research Professor Karlheinz Langanke in the course of the GSI colloquium on July 1, 2014. Pfeiffer Vacuum is the sponsor of the award which from now on is to be awarded annually.
