Prof. Knut Müller-Caspary at the award ceremony for the Ernst Ruska Prize 2025 in Karlsruhe, together with Dr. Katharina Hipp, President of DGE. (Photo: Tom Stoops / Universiteit Antwerpen)
The German Society for Electron Microscopy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie, DGE) has awarded LMU researcher Prof. Knut Müller-Caspary the internationally renowned Ernst Ruska Prize for his outstanding scientific achievements. Knut Müller-Caspary is awarded the prize for his outstanding achievements in momentumresolved scanning transmission electron microscopy and for transforming the method into a versatile and widely applicable imaging mode with a large impact both for material and life sciences. His pioneering contributions enabled new opportunities to measure atomic electric fields, local charge densities, and polarization in nanoscale samples while ensuring minimal specimen damage. By developing advanced computational and simulation tools he has made 4D-STEM a powerful quantitative measurement technique.
The Ernst Ruska Prize is named after the Nobel prize winner and inventor of the electron microscope, Prof. Dr. Ernst Ruska. The international prize is awarded by the German Society for Electron Microscopy every two years for outstanding achievements in the field of electron microscopy. Prof. Knut Müller-Caspary received the award during the Microscopy Conference MC 2025 in Karlsruhe (Dreiländertagung) on September 3rd, 2025.