'DESY Photon Science User Award 2026' ceremony - from left to right: Heinz Graafsma (Chair of the DESY Photon Science Award Committee), the award winner Florian Trinter (Fritz-Haber-Institut (FHI) of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)) and Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Chair of the DESY Photon Science User Committee) at the DESY Photon Science Users’ meeting 2026 on 29 January 2026. (Credit: DESY)
On the occasion of the DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting 2026 in Hamburg, Florian Trinter was honoured with the third 'DESY Photon Science User Award'. This award is given to a user or group of users of FLASH and/or PETRA III and acknowledges singular and exceptional contributions to the general advancement of science using DESY’s large-scale photon science facilities.
Florian Trinter is an Emmy Noether Group Leader at the Fritz-Haber-Institut (FHI) of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) in Berlin and a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. He was selected for the DESY Photon Science User Award 2026 for “his innovative and pioneering research of photoionization-induced processes in laser-prepared gas- and aqueous-phase samples”. His research was performed at the PETRA III beamline P04 as well at the European XFEL. The results are consistently published in high-impact journals, demonstrating both the impact and novelty of his work.
The DESY Photon Science User award is presented annually. The DESY Photon Science User Committee (DPS-UC) and the DESY Photon Science Award Committee select the successful award winners. The award committee members are appointed by the DESY Photon Science Directorate. The next call for applications will be in summer 2026.
