Niels de Jonge, project leader of project C7 of the SFB 1027, was distinguisehed by the Université de Lyon with the honerate doctorate ("Dr. honoris causa") for his development of a special electron microscopy technique. It was awarded to him during the "Materials Science Day" at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon. The director of the program area "Inovative Electron microscopy" at the Institute for New Materials (INM) and professor at the physics department of the Saarland University receives this honor for the "Liquid STEM" technique developped by him, with which proteins in cells can be investigated with nanometer resolution in their natural, liquid environment.