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Well, now it's my great pleasure to speak the laudation on the laureate Professor Jonathan

Hobe. As mentioned already before, the Young Researcher Award should promote in every possible

sense the intentions of graduate school advanced optical technology stands for its excellence,

internationality, interdisciplinarity, innovation, leadership. And this must find its appropriate

expression in the criteria which are announced to encourage only extremely outstanding scientists

for this award. Here you can see the announcement of the award published for the first time

in nature in 2007 together with the announcement for the application for doctoral scholarships

and professorships. These criteria can even better be seen somewhat enlarged here. The

Young Researcher Award will be awarded annually to an outstanding young scientist, the maximum

age is 40 years, in the field of optics and photonics to spend at least one year in Erlangen

or in most days over several years to pursue research in collaboration with the SRT scientists.

Professor Hobe is 33 years old and thus clearly meets the very well the age criteria. The

application will be reviewed by international experts in the field, at least two reviewers

will be asked and it has to be done here also. The Young Researcher Award is open to young

researchers with a profile record in optics, photonics and optical technologies. In this

laudation you will realize that all these requirements are very well fulfilled by the

laureate. Here you can see some details on the education professional history as part

of his curriculum, Vita of Professor Hobe. He received his university education master

degree and PhD in physics at the physics department of the University of Oxford where

he also held his first postdoctoral position. In 2006 he became a Lindemann Fellow, a fellowship

of the English-Speaking Union which he started at NIST in Boulder where he stayed for another

three years as postdoc in the research group of Professor Weidland. Since 2010 he is heading

the Trapped Eye and Quantum Information Group as an assistant professor of quantum optics

and photonics in the Institute of Quantum Electronics of the Department of Physics at

the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. During his quite young career,

Professor Hobe has already won some honors mentioned here starting already in the early

phase of his primary studies. In 2006 as mentioned before he received the Lindemann

Trust Fellowship. In 2010 he received a prestigious university research fellowship from the Royal

Society which he declined as he has already started in Zurich. It's the same year. The

SOT Young Research Award he received today is surely another highlight in his young career

which he very well deserves because of his excellent achievement I will speak about in

a moment. He has already taken over responsibilities and obligations for the scientific community

for example as a reviewer for several prestigious scientific journals out of the Nature Publishing

Group, Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, the new Journal of Physics and Applied

Physics B. He actives as a reviewer for the Austrian Academy of Science and as an eximer

for the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Since 2011 he is active as organizer of quantum

science conferences. His excellent achievements are displayed in the actual publication record

at the time when he applied for this award. He has been already quite productive. We find

nearly 20 publications with nearly 400 citations resulting in already quite large age index

of 11 and really excellent record for young research of 32. He was when he applied for

this award. My warmest congratulations for these successes. He has published in several

different high impact journals. Some of them are displayed here including leading periodicals

for example three different journals of the Nature Publishing Group in Science and Physical

Review for example or Letters. Professor Holmes application has been reviewed by two well

known international experts taking into consideration the personal qualification by Professor David

Violet as mentioned before and by Professor Andrew Steen from the sub department of atomic

and laser physics of the physics department of the University of Oxford. Professor Holmes

was the advisor during his doctoral studies in Oxford. We are very grateful to both of

them for the help in finding the best candidate for the award in this lecture process. Let