Awards & Achievements

Fady Archie

Egyptian master student at the RWTH Aachen and currently doing his research at the MPIE, won the 1st prize in the Science. Slam Competition "Famelab NRW”.

Dr. Serhiy Cherevko

Received the Electrochimica Acta Travel Award for Young Electrochemists, in recognition of the quality of his scientific research and contribution to the International Society of Electrochemistry Annual Meeting 2013 in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico.

Dr. Martin Friak

Won the Best Poster Award for his poster about Ab initio studies of single-crystalline and polycrystalline elastic properties of Mg-substituted calcite crystals at the Euro BioMat 2013 in Weimar, Germany.

Dr. Anna Janus

Received the 1st prize of the Polish Materials Society for the best doctoral thesis in 2011 at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She studied the morphology of hydroxyapatite of natural origin.

Dr. loannis Katsounaros

Received a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship. He will continue his research in the Argonne National Laboratory (USA) and at the University of Leiden (Netherlands).

Dr. Fritz Körmann

Won the Best Poster Award for his poster about Atomic forces at finite magnetic temperatures at the XLI Calphad conference in Berkeley (USA).

Andreas Leitner

Won the 1st prize of the Dörrenberg Studien Award for his excellent bachelor thesis about the microstructure of austenitic stainless steel Cr₁₈Mn₈C0₅₉ after total strain controlled loading at the University Duisburg-Essen.

Dr. Karl Mayrhofer

Was awarded the Innovationspreis 2012 of North Rhine Westphalia in the category "Young Scientist" for his research about electro catalysts.

Josef Meier

Received a Best Poster Award for his work on fuel cell catalyst stability as the best out of 129 contributions in the field of fuel cell research at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Prague (Czech Republic).

Prof. Dierk Raabe

Chief executive, was elected as chairman of the Board of Governors of the RWTH Aachen. Moreover, he has been reappointed for a second period as a member of the German Council for Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat).