Takashi Kumagai is awarded Young Scientists’ Prize, Commendation for Science and Technology by Japan Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2020.

The Award Committee of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science (JVSS) has selected Dr. Takashi Kumagai (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany) as the Rising Medalist of The Heinrich Rohrer Medal for the his achievements to combine plasmonic near-field physics with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The prize will be awarded in a ceremony at the International Symposium on Surface Science(ISSSS-9) in November 2020, Takamatsu, Japan.

The Gaede award recognizes excellent work in the area of vacuum science and is awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG) in cooperation with the Gaede foundation to scientists in an early career stage.