The Lise Meitner Lectures (LML) are a series of public lectures in honour of Lise Meitner. The lectures are organized jointly by the German Physical Society and the Austrian Physical Society, with the intention to showcase outstanding female scientists in physics or related fields. The annual lecture series was launched in 2008, when Lise Meitner's birthday celebrated its 130th anniversary. In October 2008, the Lise Meitner Lecture was held in Vienna and Berlin with an accompanying exhibition. The annual lecture series not only aims at increasing the visibility of successful female researchers, but also at encouraging girls and young women towards careers in physics.
Awardees
2026: Michèle Heurs[de], "Gravitational wave astronomy – quo vadis?"
2025: Anne L’Huillier, "Attosecond pulses of light for studying electron dynamics"
2024: Lisa Kaltenegger, "Alien Earths: Searching for a Second Earth - Challenges, Opportunities and Adventures"
2023: Donna Strickland, "Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses"
2022: Viola Priesemann, "Learning in living neuronal networks" (Lernen in lebenden neuronalen Netzwerken)
2021: Claudia Draxl, "Quantum-based Materials Modeling and Artificial Intelligence for Tackling Societal Challenges"