Awards 

-         Distinguished Lecturer in 2011 of the IEEE Magnetics Society

-         Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the Advanced Light Source 2010, together with W. Chao, E. Anderson, T. Tylisczcak, A.L. Kilcoyne and T. Warwick, “For hitting the 10 nm resolution milestone with soft X-ray microscopy.”

-         Best Poster Award at the MMM 2007 Tampa FL, Nov 5-9, 2007: M. T. Bryan, P. W. Fry, P. Fischer and D. A. Allwood, Magnetic transmission X-ray microscopy of field-driven magnetization processes in Permalloy structures

-          Best Poster Award at the 378th WE-Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, 22.-26.10.2006: M. Bolte, H. Ziehlke, A. Drews, R. Eiselt, G. Meier, D.-H. Kim, B. L. Mesler, P. Fischer, B. van Waeyenberge, A. Puzic, K. W. Chou, and H. Stoll, Current-induced magnetic vortex oscillations observed by time resolved X-ray microscopy