Young Scientist Award
Young Scientist Award (YSA) of the ZWU
Since 2009, the Center for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) has annually announced the Young Scientist Award (YSA) at the beginning of the winter semester for outstanding theses by students and young scientists that are closely related to the research topics of the ZWU.
Awarding of the Young Talent Promotion PrizeYoung Scientist Award 2025
For the seventeenth time, the Centre for Water and Environmental Research (ZWU) is awarding the Young Scientist Award (YSA) for outstanding students and young scientists in the field of water and environmental research.
The prize is awarded to theses (master/magister/diploma/state examination) and dissertations that were completed at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2024. Applicants working in any scientific field are eligible. However, proposals should be directly linked to the activities of the ZWU. Work that was completed at external institutions (e.g. at institutes affiliated with the UDE or partner universities) is also permitted as long as the degree was completed at the UDE or as part of a cooperative ZWU project.
June 2024Award winners of the year 2024
We are delighted to announce this year's winners of the Young Scientist Award 2024.
The 6 award winners were officially honoured at the UDE summer party on 25 June 2024.
The selection committee around
Dr. Wiebke Warner
(Hydrogeochemistry, RUB)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Donner
(Chairman of the Board, Berliner Wasserbetriebe)
Dr. Thomas-Benjamin Seiler
(Managing Director, Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr Area)
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Teichgräber
(Head of the Fundamentals and Development Division, EG/LV))
and the ZWU Executive Board presented four awards for outstanding Master's theses and two prizes for outstanding dissertations.
Congratulations!!!
Master theses
1st place Lisa Wolany
Degree programme Biodiversity
AG Aquatic Ecosystem Research, UDE
Title of the thesis:
"Untersuchung des Einflusses multipler Stressoren auf neuseeländische FließgewässerInvertebratengemeinschaften mithilfe von DNA-Metabarcoding in einem Mesokosmen-Halbfreiland-Experiment"
2nd place Annabell Hüsken
Degree programme Biodiversity
AG Aquatic Ecosystem Research, UDE
Title of the thesis:
"Spatial and temporal patterns in trematode communities infecting aquatic snails in the Boye catchment"
3rd place Michelle Musiol
Degree programme Biology
AG Aquatic Ecology, UDE
Title of the thesis:
"Diversität und Elementaranreicherung von intestinalen Parasiten bei Seevögeln"
3rd place Christian Schlautmann
Degree programme Water Science
AG Aquatic Ecology, UDE
Title of the thesis:
"Detection of drift distances and densities of macroinvertebrates in a sand-dominated lowland river by stable isotope labelling"
Promotions
1st place Dr. Valentina Merkus
AG Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, UDE
Title of the thesis:
"Comprehensive investigation of the ozonation of pharmaceutical micropollutants"
2nd place Dr. Louisa Rothe
AG Aquatic Ecology, UDE
Title of the work:
"Ecotoxicological methods to indicate effects of micropollutant reduction during conventional wastewater treatment and wastewater ozonation"