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Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. In the next minutes it's my pleasure to guide you through the second part of the award ceremony that we have today.

Giving the Young Researcher Award to one of the best international researchers helps us to have a connection between Erlangen and the world.

Giving an award to our doctoral candidates helps us to keep them motivated and to struggle for the best results, at least we hope that.

This is why in the next minutes I am going to present six awards, one for each topic of SAOT, to six candidates that represent the publications with the highest scientific impact in the respective community.

So the first prize goes to Kerstin Müller for her excellent contribution with the title Evaluation of Interpolation Methods for Surface-Based Motion-Compensated Tomographic Reconstruction for Cardiac Angiographic Sea Arm Data in Medical Physics in February 2013.

The second one goes to Peter Bechtwald for his publication with the title Analytic and Experimental Investigations on Influence of Harmonic Generation on Acousto-Optical Modulation in Optics Express August 2012.

The next award goes to Stefan Oppel for his contribution with the title Super-Resolving Multifoton Interferences with Independent Light Sources in Fiscal Review Letter 109 in December 2012.

The next award goes to Martin Kraus for his paper with the title Motion Correction in Optical Coherence Tomography Volumes on a Per A Scan Basis Using Orthogonal Scan Patterns in Biomedical Optics Express in May 2012.

The next award goes to Jianyu Lin in recognition of her contribution with the title Nonlinear Mitigation Using Carrier Phase Estimation and Digital Backward Propagation in Coherent QAM Transmission in Optics Express in December 2012.

And the next student award goes to Carla Reinhold-Lopez for her contribution with the title Flow Field Characterization in a Vertically Oriented Cold Wall CCVD Reactor Biparticle Image Velocimetry in Chemical Engineering Journal in March 2012.

May I now ask Professor Grüsske, our president and Professor Leibhart to come up for a picture.

Thanks again to all the winners.

So now we come, maybe for you this is a new thing, but you've already heard that maybe, we come to a third part of our award ceremony today which is new in the second funding phase of SAOT and for that third part I would like to hand over to Andreas Boyer, one of our directors, that would conduct this ceremony.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. As you probably remember from the welcome address given by Professor Leibhart, one of the main targets in our SAOT mission is the stimulation of innovation.

And one method to hit that target we think is the financial support of innovative research ideas which have their intellectual origin at our doctoral candidates themselves.

In 2012, for the first time, SAOT announced this innovation award as a competition between all the SAOT doctoral candidates and we encouraged you to submit very innovative proposals.

The only condition was it had to do something with optical technologies. Well, in total eight such proposals have been submitted to me with very innovative titles like characterization of cool flame regimes by multi-species supercontinuous spectroscopy or next generation of tailed blanks manufactured by laser metal deposition or analysis of historical documents using X-ray and computer chromatography.

Just to name three of them. Well, unfortunately, not one of them has been innovative, but all of them. So it was a very tough decision to identify that proposal which should be the most innovative one.

And finally, the decision then was made to confer the award to the proposal being most independent of research already existing in SAOT.

The award, which comprises a certificate and a cheque of 20,000 euros for the project, not for the applicant, for the project, goes to the project Optical Dremel Analysis for Rehabilitation and Performance Measures submitted by Felix Tenner. Please come to the stage.

So the Innovation Award 2013 is conferred upon Diploma Engineer Felix Tenner to support his innovative research proposal Optical Dremel Analysis for Rehabilitation and Performance Measures. Erlangen June signed by our coordinator Professor Leipertz.

And we also prepared a small version of the cheque, about 20,000 euros. And now I want also to ask the two coordinators and the president to come to the stage for a photo.

I want to thank you for your attention. I want to thank the organizers, Ms. Ort, Ms. Kress, Ms. Stümpfig-Bainho and Dr. Grausmann for having organized this very important event.

And now I want to invite all of you to the Palmaria just next door, where a light buffet will be served and cool drinks. And before we go there, I want to ask Professor Weinland to sign in the Golden Book of the University Visitors.

Thank you.