Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

96 V. People and Events
Andreas Schruba, postdoc at MPIA, for his paper “A
molecular star formation law in the atomicgas-dominated
regime in nearby galaxies” (2011, Astronomical Journal
142, 37).
As the years before, they were honored during the
Patzer Colloquium which took place on December 2 nd in
the lecture hall of the MPIA where the prize winners gave
a 30 minutes presentation of their work.
Further awards
Olaf Fischer from the Haus der Astronomie was
awarded by the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische
Gesellschaft, AG) during the annual meeting in
Heidelberg in September 2011 with the Hans-Ludwig
Neumann Prize. This prize was established in 1996 to
recognize outstanding activities for the advancement of
astronomy at school.
Dimitrios A. Gouliermis received the fellowships
“Comprehensive Characterization with HST of Stellar
Populations in Star-Forming Regions of the Large Magellanic
Cloud” (DLR Program 50 OR 908) and “The Stellar
Clusters Population of the Andromeda Galaxy from the
Panchromatic HST Survey” (German Science Foundation
(DFG) Program GO 1659/3–1).
Jouni Kainulainen, Hua-Bai Li, Sarah Ragan,
Amy Stutz und Svitlana Zhukovska had been equipped
with a research budget from the DFG Priority Program
“Physics of the Interstellar Medium” while Dmitry A.
Semenov received a research budget, also from the DFG,
within the program “The first 10 million years of the
Solar System – a Planetary Materials Approach” (SPP
1385)
Natalie Raettig received an Annette Kade Fellowship
for a three months visit to the American Museum of Natural
History (AMNH) in New York, USA, while Karin
Sandstrom was awarded with a Marie Curie International
Incoming Fellowship.
Since 2007 the Max Planck Society has been awarding
up to 20 apprentices with the Apprenticeship Prize
for excellent performance on the job and at school as
well as for social involvement during the training period.
For very good marks in his final year of training in the
precision mechanics workshop of MPIA Fabian Wipfler
received the Apprenticeship Prize for metal work as
well as an award from the Chamber of Crafts Mannheim.
The Apprenticeship Prize for administrative work went
to Marc-Oliver Lechner who received his training in the
MPIA administration department.
Klaus Jäger, Martin Kürster,
Axel M. Quetz