Lise Meitner Lectures

The Lise Meitner Lectures are a series of public lectures in honour of Lise Meitner. The lectures are organized jointly by the German Physical Society and the Austrian Physical Society, with the intention to showcase outstanding female scientists in physics or related fields. The annual lecture series was launched in 2008, when Lise Meitner's birthday celebrated its 130th anniversary. In October 2008, the Lise Meitner Lecture was held in Vienna and Berlin with an . The annual lecture series not only aims at increasing the visibility of successful female researchers, but also at encouraging girls and young women towards careers in physics.

Awardees

2025: Anne L’Huillier, „Attosecond pulses of light for studying electron dynamics“
2024: Lisa Kaltenegger, "Alien Earths: Searching for a Second Earth - Challenges, Opportunities and Adventures"
2023: Donna Strickland, "Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses"
2022: Viola Priesemann, "Learning in living neuronal networks"
2021: Claudia Draxl, "Quantum-based Materials Modeling and Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Societal Challenges"
2019: Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, "Sculpted light in nano- and microsystems"
2017/18: Nicola Spaldin, "New materials for a new age"
2017/18: Johanna Stachel, "Erforschung von Urknallmaterie an der Weltmaschine LHC"
2016: Petra Schwille, "Ist Leben konstruierbar?"
2015: Cornelia Denz, "Material in neuem Licht - wie maßgeschneidertes Licht Materie strukturieren und anordnen kann"
2014: Felicitas Pauss, "Das Higgs-Teilchen: Unsichtbares sichtbar und Unmögliches möglich machen"
2013: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, "Pulsars and extreme physics"
2012: Renate Loll, "More than meets the eye: probing the Planckian structure of spacetime"
2010: Anna Frebel, "Die ältesten Sterne im Universum und die chemische Entwicklung unserer Galaxie"
2009: Cecilia Jarlskog, "Symmetries – exact and broken"
2008: Mildred Dresselhaus, "Why are we so excited about nano-carbons?"