Vitali Müller receives one of the eight biennial 2020 Zeldovich Medals awarded by the international Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) for his work in the field of interferometry between satellites and its applications. These recognize young researchers for excellence and achievements. Vitali Müller is a postdoctoral researcher in the “Interferometry in Space” group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Hannover and at the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz University Hannover and leads the “Space Laser Gravimetry” group in the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Frontiers”.
The award consists of a medal and a certificate was presented during the online opening of the 43rd COSPAR General Assembly in Sydney by COSPAR President Lennard Fisk on January 28, 2021.
See the full announcement on the page of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics