Other award winners at the UDE in 2008

Cedrik Meier
receives the G.D. Baedeker Prize.

The €5,000 Gottschalk Diederich Baedeker Prize was presented this year to physicist Dr. Cedrik Meier (34) of the University of Duisburg-Essen. The Lord Mayor of Essen, Dr. Wolfgang Reiniger, presented the prize on May 30, 2008 in the library of the university. In his distinguished professorial dissertation (Habilitation) “Novel Photonic Materials,” the award winner shows how light can be confined to a very small space, in wavelength format, with the help of semiconductors. This requires specially developed periodic structures that can also be used as a new kind of laser with nanometer-size dimensions. The article’s findings could contribute to the more efficient design of electronic components in the future.

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Görtz
wins the von Kaven Prize in Mathematics.

Dr. Ulrich Goertz, 35, researches in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry.

Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Hiller
receives Honorary Doctorate for Mechatronics Experts from the University of Miskolc.

Professor Manfred Hiller, retired Professor of Mechatronics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Miskolc in Hungary. He received it “in recognition of his outstanding international work in the development of machines, mechanisms and the discipline of mechatronics”. Professor Hiller, who studied air and apace technology, was an assistant and later a professor at the University of Stuttgart for many years. In 1987, he became a professor in machine dynamics at the then-named Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg. In 1991, he took over the first German professorship for mechatronics and directed the affiliated institute for mechatronics IMECH GmbH in Moers.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Herbertz
receives the Rudolf Martin Honorary Certificate.

Professor Joachim Herbertz, ultrasound and acoustics expert at the University of Duisburg-Essen, received the Rudolf Martin Honorary Certificate at the 34th German Annual Conference for Acoustics (DAGA) in Dresden. The German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the Association of German Engineers (VDI) expert committee honored Herbertz’s extraordinary achievements in standardization in the field of acoustics, noise reduction and vibration engineering.