The following, not conclusive, list gives an overview how to participate in the activities of the division "Functional materials". In case of of questions and suggestions please contact the executive board of the division.

• Partizipation with a presentation or poster  within the FM sessions at the annual DPG Spring meetings. The division awards a poster prize that is presented within the members assembly of the division.
• Organisation of sessions on topics specific to the FM division as part of the annual DPG Spring meeting, i.e.
  • "Focus-Session" - Lecture series within the program of the division
  • "Symposuim" - Lecture series to a broader audience across several divisions
  • "Plenary Talk" - Comprehensive presentation of a leading scientist on this research topic intended for a broad audience
• Proposal of PhD theses for the dissertation prize of the DPG condensed matter section

KFM poster prize prize awarding at the DPG spring meeting 2025 in Regensburg (f.l.t.r): Juliane Koch (TU Illmenau, "Optimizing pre-annealing growth for obtaining pattern fidelity of highly ordered GaAs nanowires"), Christa Fink (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, "Investigation of hydrogen diffusion in LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 from density-functional theory"), Maximilian Suhr (TU München, "Surface and near-surface positron annihilation spectroscopy at very low positron energy")

KFM poster prize winners at the DPG Spring meeting 2024 in Berlin (f.l.t.r.): Felix Meessen (RWTH Aachen University, für "Exploring the bonding in quasicrystals"), Ida Skogvoll (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, für "DFT study of local ferroic properties at twin walls in ferroelastic CaMnO3") and Sergei Trofimov (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, für "KPFM imaging and magnetic resonance detection of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond")