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The Physical Society of Berlin has presented the Karl Scheel Prize to Emad Aziz (Free University of Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy) for "recent methodological developments for investigating the structure and dynamics of functional materials in solution". The prize consists of a bronze medal and a E5,000 endowment.
Aziz studied chemistry at Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt) and then did his MSc at the Free University of Berlin. He completed his PhD in 2007 at the then Berlin Electron Storage Ring Company for Synchrotron Radiation (Bessy) under W. Eberhardt. He spent a further 12 months at Bessy before being awarded a fellowship to work with M. Chergui at the EPFL in Lausanne to use the "Swiss Light Source". The Aziz research group studies the structure and dynamics of biochemical systems in solution. They use soft X-ray spectroscopy combined with traditional methods like FTIR and UV/Vis. Aziz was recently awarded a European Research Council grant (E1.5 million) to developing methods for investigating the structure and the ultra-fast dynamics of materials in bulk solutions and at interfaces. His forthcoming Communication in Angewandte Chemie reports on the complex nature of hydrogen bond networks using X-ray absorption and X-ray emission spectroscopy. [1a]
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