We are happy to announce that the “IES best paper Award” winners for 2020-21 are:

• Luis Fábregas Ibáñez  (ETH Zuerich)”DeerLab: a comprehensive software package for analyzing dipolar electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy data”, J. Magn. Reson. 1, 2020 (DOI: 10.5194/mr-1-209-2020).  (additional authors:  Gunnar Jeschke, and Stefan Stoll)
• Michal Kern (University of Stuttgart)”Hybrid Spintronic Materials from Conducting Polymers with Molecular Quantum Bits”, Adv. Funct. Mater. 31, 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202006882).  (additional authors:  Lorenzo Tesi, David Neusser, Nadine Rußegger, Mario Winkler, Alexander Allgaier, Yannic M. Gross, Stefan Bechler, Hannes S. Funk, Li-Te Chang, Jörg Schulze, Sabine Ludwigs, and Joris van Slageren)
• Nandita Abhankar (University of Maryland, NIST)”Scalable microresonators for room-temperature detection of electron spin resonance from dilute, sub-nanoliter volume solids”, Science Advances 6, 2020 (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0620 ). (additional authors:  Amit Agrawal, Pragya Shrestha, Russell Maier, Robert D. McMichael,  Jason Campbell, and Veronika Szalai)