Dr. Bernd Aichner, member of the SUPERQUMAP action, has received the prize of the Condensed Matter Division of the Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG) for his doctoral thesis: “Vortex Dynamics in Copper-Oxide Superconductors with Periodic Pinning Potentials Created by Focused Helium Ion Beam Irradiation”. The prize was awarded during the Joint Annual Meeting of the Austrian and the Swiss Physical Societies in Basel, on 5. September 2023.

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