Doctoral Award Archive
Prize Winners 2021
Helmholtz Promotion Prize 2021
Amran Al-Ashouri
Forschungsbereich Energy
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Eliminating Interface Losses in Perovskite Single Junctions for Efficient Tandem Solar Cells
Simone Andresen
Research Field Earth and Environment
Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Impact of Structural Components on Natural Vibrations. How The Inspiration by Nature Can Help Us Improve Vibration Properties
Selina Jansky
Research Field Health
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Developmental programs in neuroblastoma dissected by single-cell analysis
Sarah Schröder
Research Field Matter
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
External injection of electron beams into plasma wakefield accelerators
Alina Roitberg
Research Field Key Technologies
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Uncertainty-aware Models for Deep Learning-based Human Activity Recognition and Applications in Intelligent Vehicles"
Celia Amélie Baumhoer
Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Glacier front dynamics of Antarctica – Analysing Changes in Glacier and Ice Shelf Front Position based on SAR Time Series
Prize Winners 2020
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2020
Dr. Nils Hutter
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
Research Field Earth and Environment
"Resolving Leads in Sea-Ice Models: New Analysis Methods for Frontier Resolution Arctic Simulations"
Dr. Mahak Singhal
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Research Field Health
"Angio-regulation of liver neovascularization and lung metastatic progression"
Dr. Martin Johannes Schuster
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport
"Collaborative Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Planetary Exploration Distributed Stereo Vision-Based 6D SLAM in GNSS-Denied Environments"
Dr. Valeria Perseo
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP)
Research Field Energy
"Impurity flow measurements with Coherence-Imaging Spectroscopy at Wendelstein 7-X"
Dr. Miriam Brosi
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Research Field Matter
"In-Depth Analysis of the Micro-Bunching Characteristics in Single and Multi-Bunch Operation at KARA"
Dr.-Ing. Edouard Fouché
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Research Field Key Technologies
"Estimating Dependency, Monitoring and Knowledge Discovery in High-Dimensional Data Streams"
„Collaborative Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Planetary Exploration Distributed Stereo Vision-Based 6D SLAM in GNSS-Denied Environments”
The Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2020
Previous Prize Winners
Prize Winners 2019
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2019
Josua Vieten
Research Field Energy
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
“Perovskite materials design for two-step solar-thermochemical redox cycles”
Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth
Research Field Earth and Environment
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
“Effects of climate change on a reptile community in arid Australia. Exploring mechanisms and processes in a hot, dry, and mysterious ecosystem”
Katrina Meyer
Research Field Health
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC)
“A peptide-based interaction screen on disease-related mutations”
Dr. Anita Schulz
Research Field Aeronautics, Space, and Transport
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
“Acoustic boundary conditions of perforated wall liners in flow ducts—physical models and eduction”
Yi-Jen Chen
Research Field Matter
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
“Light-induced ultrafast tunneling dynamics of a many-electron system: from weak to strong fields”
Dr. Miriam Menzel
Research Field Key Technologies
Forschungszentrum Jülich
“Finite-difference time-domain simulations assisting to reconstruct the brain’s nerve fiber architecture by 3D polarized light imaging”
Joul meets the Helmholtz Doctoral Prize Winners 2019
Prize Winners 2018
Helmholtz-Doktorandenpreis 2018
Dr Ing Antoine B. Jacquey
Research field Energy
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Antoine Jacquey’s work has contributed greatly to improving numerical descriptions of the physical conditions in geological reservoirs. The decisive improvement was his development of new tools that three-dimensionally observe both the heterogeneities below the surface caused by geological factors and the physical processes taking place there.
Dr Sinikka Lennartz
Research field Earth and Environment
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
In her thesis, Sinikka Lennartz has investigated marine emissions of climate-relevant sulfur gases and found that these sulfur emissions are lower than previously assumed. Their results help to integrate ocean emissions into climate models more efficiently and to improve climate forecasts.
Dr Ann-Christin Baranski
Research field Health
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Ann-Christin Baranski focused her work on the development of a very promising medication for bimodal imaging and robot-assisted removal of primary tumors and prostate cancer metastases that is suitable for direct clinical use.
Dr Ing Daniel Leidner
Research field Aeronautics, Space, and Transport
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Daniel Leidner thesis involved the improvement of the cognitive abilities of service robots so that they can perform their assigned tasks independently. Robots like "Rollin' Justin" are thus transformed from mere tools into full-fledged work colleagues. These systems are to be used, among other things, in future space missions.
Dr Oleg Gorobtsov
Research field Matter
DESY German electron synchrotron
Oleg Gorobtsov’s thesis involved the development of novel concepts for harnessing the coherence of hard X-rays. He used an extremely original approach to show how these concepts could be used in the X-ray range to analyze data and develop new kinds of instruments.
Dr Ing Alexandra Amherd Hidalgo
Research field Key Technologies
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Alexandra Amherd Hidalgo’s work provided new insights into the use of titanium alloys and their powder processing of such alloys. The studies she conducted made a significant contribution to the potential use of a cost-saving production technology for highly stressed components used in industries such as aeronautics and medicine.
Prize Winners 2017
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2017
Dr Benjamin Korth
Research Field Energy
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
"On the thermodynamics of electroactive microorganisms"
Dr Emma Järvinen
Research Field Earth and Environment
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
"Investigations of Angular Light Scattering by Complex Atmospheric particles"
Dr Laleh Haghverdi
Research Field Health
Helmholtz Zentrum München
"Geometric Diffusions for Reconstruction of Cell Differentiation Dynamics"
Dr Estefania Munoz Diaz
Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport
Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
"Inertial Navigation System for Pedestrians"
Dr Johann Haber
Research Field Matter
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
"Hard X-ray Quantum Optics in Thin-Film Nanostructures"
Dr Christoph Bäumer
Research Field Key Technologies
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
"Spectroscopic characterization of local valence change processes in resistively switching complex metal oxides"
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize Winners 2016
Dr Tobias Vogt
Research Field Energy
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Dr Corinna Breusing
Research Field Earth and Environment
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Dr Véronique Gebala
Research Field Health
Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft (MDC)
Dr Katharina Otto
Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Dr Wolfgang Gregor Hollik
Research Field Matter
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Dr Torsten Rieger
Research Field Key Technologies
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize Winners 2015
Dr Matthias M. May
Research Field Energy
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
Dr Clara J.M. Hoppe
Research Field Earth and Environment
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
Dr Volker Hovestadt
Research Field Health
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Dr Michael Kühn
Research Field Key Technologies
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Dr Benjamin Schmidt
Research Field Matter
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Helmholtz-Doktorandenpreis 2014
Dr. Heidi Ursula HeinrichsForschungsbereich Energie
Forschungszentrum Jülich"Analyse der langfristigen Auswirkungen von Elektromobilität auf das deutsche Energiesystem im europäischen Energieverbund" Dr. Anja Klotzsche
Forschungsbereich Erde und Umwelt
Forschungszentrum Jülich"Full-waveform inversion of crosshole GPR data for hydrogeological applications" Dr. Natalie Jäger
Forschungsbereich Gesundheit
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum"Computational analysis of cancer genome sequencing data – the genetic landscape of pediatric brain tumors and X chromosome hypermutation" Dr. Pengfei Yang
Forschungsbereich Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt"Relation of muscular contractions to mechanical deformation in the human tibia during different locomotive activities" Dr. Torsten Sehl
Forschungsbereich Schlüsseltechnologien
Forschungszentrum Jülich"2-Steps in 1-pot: enzyme cascades for the synthesis of chiral vicinal amino alcohols" Dr. Felix Werner
Forschungsbereich Struktur der Materie
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie"Detection of Microwave Emission of Extensive Air Showers with the CROME Experiment"
Helmholtz Doctoral Prize Winners 2013
Dr. rer. nat. David Fellhauer
Research Field Energy
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian D. Rokitta
Research Field Earth and Environment
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)
Dr. rer. nat. Jan Krumsiek
Research Field Health
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Dr Anja Bauermeister
Research Field Aeronautics, Space and Transport
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
Dr lng Lena Lore Hecht
Research Field Key Technologies
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Dr Stefan Ulf Pabst
Research Field Matter
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY