Former ZESS PhD Student Jonas Geiping Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2025

Since 2011, the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), organizer of the German Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (GCPR), has annually granted the German Pattern Recognition Award for outstanding, internationally visible research in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision, and machine learning. At the GCPR 2025 in Freiburg, Dr. Jonas Geiping, received this prestigeous award along with €5000 price money. Jonas completed his PhD at the University of Siegen under the mentorship of ZESS member Prof Michael Möller in 2021. Jonas was also a student speaker of the GRK “Imaging New Modalities” at ZESS.

Former ZESS PhD Student Jonas Geiping Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2025
Former ZESS PhD Student Jonas Geiping Receives German Pattern Recognition Award 2025 [Photo: Marius Bock]
Jan Söhlke
Jan Söhlke

Dr. Jan Söhlke is the Head of Communication and staff photographer at ZESS, as well as the Scientific Coordinator for the DFG Research Unit 'Learning to Sense' (FOR 5336).

Following his doctoral studies at LMU Munich, he moved into science communication and the visual documentation of research environments. His work focuses on photographing complex scientific setups and high-tech infrastructure - translating engineering and academic projects into clear visual assets. In addition, he works as a freelance photographer for industrial and research-driven organizations

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