The Magnetic Resonance Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) usually awards the Felix Bloch Lecture annually, which recognises outstanding achievements by mature young scientists in the field of magnetic resonance over the past five years - as evidenced by scientific publications. The award is accompanied by a certificate and prize money of 1000 euros. The award winner usually gives four lectures, the first of which is held directly after the award ceremony, which takes place as part of the FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting.

Prize committee: Chairs of the previous, current and subsequent FGMR Annual Discussion Meetings

Deadline: 31 March 2026

Objective
The GDCh Magnetic Resonance Division usually awards the Felix Bloch Lecture annually, which recognises outstanding achievements by mature young scientists in the field of magnetic resonance - as evidenced by scientific publications.

The prize
The award is accompanied by a certificate and prize money of 1000 euros donated by the specialist group. The award winner usually gives four lectures, the first of which is held directly after the award ceremony as part of the 47th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting , which will take place in Mainz from 14 to 17 September 2026. The award will be decided by a selection committee appointed by the Executive Committee of the specialist group.

• Acknowledgement of scientific achievements,
• Curriculum Vitae (including contact details) and
• Publication list.

Submission
Please send your nomination electronically and summarised in a PDF file to the GDCh office for the attention of Maike Fries.

A Prof. Dr. Torsten Gutmann (Technical University of Darmstadt) was awarded the Felix Bloch Lecture 2025 on 16 September 2025 at the 46th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Bonn.

The self-chosen title of the Felix Bloch Lecture 2025 is:
Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation and In-situ Solid-State NMR - Powerful Tools to Study Local Structures and Processes in Functional Materials

Jun.-Prof. Dr Jan Behrends (Freie Universität Berlin) was awarded the Felix Bloch Lecture 2024 on 9 September 2024 at the 45th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Rostock.

The self-chosen title of the Felix Bloch Lecture 2024 is:
"Spins at Work in Energy Conversion and Storage Devices"

Dr. Loren B. Andreas (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Science in Göttingen) was awarded the Felix Bloch Lecture 2023 on 18 September 2023 at the 44th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Konstanz.

Title of the Felix Bloch Lecture 2023: "New tricks with an old Hamiltonian, and using NMR to study membrane proteins"

Dr Dominik Benjamin Bucher (Technical University of Munich) was honoured with the Felix Bloch Lecture 2022 on 12 September 2022 during the 43rd FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting in Karlsruhe.

Title of the Felix Bloch Lecture 2022: "Diamond quantum sensors for nano- and microscale NMR spectroscopy".

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ann-Christin Pöppler (University of Würzburg) and Dr. Stefan Glöggler (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen) were honoured with the Felix Bloch Lecture 2021 during the 42nd FGMR Discussion Meeting on 1 October and 29 September 2021 respectively.

The 2019 Felix Bloch Lecture was awarded to Prof. Dr Franz Hagn during the 41st FGMR Lecture Conference (EUROISMAR; Berlin) on 25 August 2019.

The Felix Bloch Lecture 2018 was awarded to Dr Manuel Etzkorn on the occasion of the 40th FGMR Lecture Conference on 10 September 2018 in Leipzig.

The Felix Bloch Lecture 2017 was awarded to Dr. Muslim Dvoyashkin on the occasion of the 39th FGMR Lecture Conference on 15 September 2017 in Bayreuth.

The Felix Bloch Lecture 2016 was awarded to Dr Björn Corzilius on the occasion of the 38th FGMR Lecture Conference on 12 September 2016 in Düsseldorf.

The Felix Bloch Lecture 2015 was awarded to Dr Rasmus Jan Linser on the occasion of the 37th Lecture Conference of the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Group on 7 September 2015 in Darmstadt.