Innovation Award Synchrotron Radiation

Current Prize Winner

Prof. Danny D. Jonigk, Prof. Maximilian Ackermann, and Prof. Tim Salditt flanked by Prof. Christian Schroer from DESY (left), who gave the laudatory speech at the ceremony for the Inn0vation Award on Synchrotron Radiation in Berlin-Adlershof in December 2025, and the chair of the Friends Association, Prof. Franziska Emmerling. (Photo: HZB / Kevin Fuchs).

The prize went to Prof. Tim Salditt (Georg August University of Göttingen) and Professors Danny D. Jonigk and Maximilian Ackermann (both, University Hospital of RWTH Aachen) for the development and application of histological tomography, a novel, high-resolution 3D X-ray imaging technique for tissues, based on phase contrast. This method allows complex tissue architectures to be visualized non-destructively and in unprecedented detail. The team has made decisive advances in this method and transferred it to biomedical research in a unique way.