On November 17, 2025, the prestigious Heinz Bethge Awards for Materials Science were presented at the annual meeting of the Heinz Bethge Foundation.

Dr. Bowen Zhang was honored for his dissertation “Multiscale failure mechanism studies on two-dimensional polymers for next-generation electronics,” completed at the Technical University of Dresden, because he used a multiscale combination of high-resolution electron microscopy, in-situ TEM tensile tests, and simulations, he fundamentally elucidated the failure mechanisms of novel two-dimensional polymers and derived a materials science-based strategy for the targeted strengthening of these 2D materials for future micro and flexible electronics. The prize money of 500 euros was kindly donated by point electronic.

Mr. M.Sc. Hüseyin Çelik is honored with the Heinz Bethge Young Scientist Award for Materials Science for his master's thesis “On the Influence of Surface Effects of Electrically Biased Semiconductor Nanostructures in Off-Axis Electron Holography,” with the Heinz Bethge Young Scientist Award for Materials Science because he has drastically reduced the measurement and computing effort in operando electron holography with a novel, physically based model for reconstructing three-dimensional electrostatic potential distributions from a single hologram projection, thus making a groundbreaking contribution to quantitative characterization.