In honor of Albert W. Overhauser's groundbreaking research work, the GDCh Division of Magnetic Resonance has been awarding the Albert-Overhauser Award since 2019. The prize recognizes an outstanding scientific publication by a young scientist (postdoc). The award is usually presented annually and includes an award certificate and prize money of 750 euros. The award is decided by a panel of experts appointed by the Division Board .
Awarding of the Albert Overhauser Prize: Selection Process
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The Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded to Dr. Vrinda Sant (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences Göttingen) during the 46th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting on September 17, 2025 in Bonn for her publication Lipidic folding pathway of α-Synuclein via a toxic oligomer ( Nat. Commun. 2025 , 16, 760 ).
The Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded to Dr. Andrei Kuzhelev (Goethe University Frankfurt) during the 45th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting on 10 September 2024 in Rostock. for his publication Solid-Effect Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Viscous Liquids at 9.4 T Using Narrow-Line Polarizing Agents ( J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 10268 ).
The Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded to Dr. Leif Antonschmidt for his publication “The clinical drug candidate anle138b binds in a cavity of lipidic α-synuclein fibrils” ( Nature Communications) during the 44th FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting on September 18, 2023 in Konstanz .
The Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded to Dr. Angeliki Giannoulis for her publication “Two closed ATP- and ADP-dependent conformations in yeast Hsp90 chaperone detected by Mn(II) EPR spectroscopic techniques” ( National Academy of Sciences) during the 42nd FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting on September 28, 2021.
The first Albert-Overhauser Award was awarded during the 41st FGMR Annual Discussion Meeting (EUROISMAR; Berlin) on August 28, 2019 to Dr. Tomas Orlando for his publication “Dynamic Nuclear Polarization of 13C Nuclei in the Liquid State over a 10 Tesla Field Range” ( Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. ).
| Year | Place of award | name | Affiliation at the time of award | |
| 2024 | Rostock | Dr. Andrei Kuzhelev | Goethe University Frankfurt | |
| 2023 | Konstanz | Dr. Loren B. Andreas | Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen | |
| 2022 | no award | |||
| 2021 | no award | |||
| 2020 | Award ceremony in 2021 Frankfurt | Dr. Angeliki Giannoulis | Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot (Israel) | |
| 2019 | Berlin | Dr. Thomas Orlando | Georg-August University of Göttingen |
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