We congratulate our former member Dr. rer. nat. Samuel Tovey who won the Christian and Dorothee Buerkert Foundation Price for 2024 for his dissertation "Physics meets Machine Learning: Theory and Application", (https://doi.org/10.18419/opus-15528) .He obtained the price on the occasion of the annual celebration of the University of Stuttgart, on November 28, 2025. Congratulations Sam!