Double Honour for Tim Langen

The quantum physicist Dr. Tim Langen was awarded a QEOD Thesis Prize of the European Physical Society and a Springer Theses Award for his dissertation at the Atominstitut/TU Wien. Dr. Tim Langen has been honoured twice for his research studying the many-body physics of ultra-cold quantum gases. He received a QEOD Thesis Prize from the European Physical Society (EPS) and a Springer Theses Award. The EPS/QEOD thesis prizes are awarded on a biennial basis for the best-nominated Ph.D thesis in the area of quantum electronics and optics submitted in the two years prior to the CLEO /Europe-I(E)QEC meetings. The award-winning works in the book series "Springer Theses - the best of the best" are selected worldwide based on their academic excellence and their impact onto the respective area of research. As part of his doctoral studies in the Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics research group at the Atominstitut, Langen succeeded in pioneering experiments to answer the question of how temperature emerges in quantum physics. The research group is part of to the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ).This question is of importance in many research fields and has for been one of the central open questions in physics for almost a century.