Awards & Achievements

Dr. Theodoros Baimpos

Postdoc in the group ‘Interaction Forces and Functional Materials’, has won the Best Poster Award at the ‘2nd International Conference of Young researchers on Advanced Materials’ (IUMRS-ICYRAM) in Haiku, China.

Dr. Pascal Beese-Vasbender

Postdoc in the group ‘Electrocatalysis’, won the leopoldina Prize for Young scientists of the leopoldina National Academy for sciences. Moreover, he took part at this year’s lindau Nobel laureate Meeting.

Christian Broß

Apprentice in the field of materials testing, won the First Poster Award at the conference “Mikpräp 2015” at the technical vocational school in Solingen (Germany).

Su-Ting Cheng

Doctoral student in the project group ‘Electrochemistry and Corrosion science’, won the Best Poster Award at the ‘Faraday Discussion: Corrosion Chemistry’ Conference of the Royal Society of Chemistry in London, Great Britain.

Dr. Chang-Hyuck Choi

Postdoc in the group ‘Electrocatalysis’, has received a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Dr. Blazej Grabowski

Leader of the group 'Adaptive structural Materials‘ has successfully applied for a starting Grant of the European Research Council and is financed with 1.5 million euros for five years.

Dr. Olga Kasian

Postdoc in the group ‘Electrocatalysis’, has received a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Dr. Sergiy Merzlikin

Postdoc in the group ‘Corrosion’, has won the second Best Paper Award of the journal ‘Metallurgical Research & Technology’.

Thomas Utzig

Doctoral student in the group ‘Interac-tion Forces and Functional Materials’, has won the Best Poster Award in the section ‘sur-face Forces’ at the Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists in Mainz, Germany.

Ali Zendegani

Doctoral student in the group ‘Computational Phase Studies’, has been awarded the Larry Kaufman scholarship to present his research at the CAlPHAD XlIV conference in Loano, Italy.