Other award winners at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Other award winners at the UDE in 2009
Andreas Rennings
receives the VDE Doctoral Dissertation Prize from the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies.
Synthetically manufactured and with hand-tailored properties, “meta-materials” have enormous potential. “The future belongs to them,” says Dr.-Ing. Andreas Rennings. Part of the Department of General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, this scientist is someone who would know. The young researcher participates in several projects that, with the help of meta-materials, promise improvements for radar sensor technology and medical technology. He has already received several awards for these projects and has now earned another one: Rennings was awarded the €3,000 Doctoral Dissertation Prize from the Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies of North-Rhine Westphalia.
Prof. Dr. Heinz Fissan
honored with the Ben Y.H. Liu Award.
For his outstanding contribution to aerosol research, Professor Heinz Fissan has been honored with the renowned Benjamin Y.H. Liu Award. The award was presented at the AAAR (American Association for Aerosol Research) 2009 Annual Conference on October 29th, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. The Benjamin Y.H. Liu Award recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol instrumentation that have significantly advanced the science and technology of aerosols.
Prof. Dr. Hans Werner Diehl
receives the honorary title of APS Fellow.
Physicist Professor Hans Werner Diehl of the University of Duisburg-Essen has been honored with the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society. The certificate of appointment recognizes, in particular, his fruitful and long-lasting contributions to the understanding of the universal critical behavior related to surfaces and interfaces. The renowned American Physical Society (APS) represents the interests of its 46,000 members. Professor Diehl has investigated, among other things, forces caused by fluctuations: “Casimir” forces. These kinds of forces appear between components in nanotechnology. Through targeted changes in geometry and by introducing fluids, these tiny components, which previously stuck together, could be become usable in future.
Dr. Manuel Blickle
receives the G. D. Baedeker Prize 2009.
Dr. Manuel Blickle, a mathematician at the University of Duisburg-Essen, has received the €5,000 Gottschalk Diederich Baedeker Prize, which was presented for the 25th time in 2009. In his distinguished professorial dissertation (Habilitation), the award winner investigates the singularities of algebraic spaces in positive characteristic. A singularity is a place where a mathematical object displays some kind of anomaly. He investigates these anomalies with the help of the p-ten power transformation, which is very important in positive characteristic.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Streffer
receives the Sievert Award.
The Sievert Award is one of the highest awards presented in the field of radiation protection research. Former rector Professor Christian Streffer has been honored by the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA) for his life’s work. He is the second German to receive this prize. The retired scientist from the University of Duisburg-Essen conducted important investigations into the effects and risks of radiation. His research also focused on the experimental foundation for radiation therapy.