Paderborn University Research Award Winners 2023
Award winner: Prof. Dr. Dr. Claus Reinsberger, Faculty of Science / Department of Exercise and Health,
Dr.-Ing. Tanuj Hasija, Faculty of EIM-Electrical Engineering / Signal and System Theory Group
Project: „Improving the lives of people with epilepsy: Towards a low-cost and real-time seizure prediction“
Link to press release: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/news-item/127266
Link to explaining video: https://youtu.be/nRw8aPbzXOc
Link to the laudation: Author Prof. Dr. Lars Libuda
Past Research Award Winners
Research Award 2022
- Award winner: PD Dr. Adrian Keller, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
- Project „DNA-based nanoantibiotics to combat resistant germs"
Link to press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/99853
Link to explaining video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRgcHkocvEw
Link to the laudation:
Research Award 2021
- Award winner: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Steinrück, Technical Chemistry, Faculty of Science
- Project: "Clean Water - Made by UPB
Link to press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/96427
Link to the explanatory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz04FoMObCw
Link to the laudation:
Author Dr. Oliver Seewald
Research Prize 2020
- Prize winner: Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn (Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn)
- Project: "Edition of phonographic music".
Link to the press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/94296
Link to the laudation:
Author Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber
Link to the press release Presentation of the results:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/99741
Research Award 2019
- Award winners: Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier (Institute of Computer Science) and Dr.-Ing. Oliver Wallscheid (Institute of Electrical Engineering)
- Project: "Reinforcement learning in micro and smart grids: secure, data-driven operational strategies for complex energy systems"
Link to press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/90838/
Link to the explanatory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC6aDznO6X8
Link to the laudation:
Author Prof. Dr.-Ing. Werner Homberg
Link to the press release presentation of the results:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/97084
Research Award 2018
- Award winners: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne, Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl
- Project: Green IT: Exact calculations with inaccurate but energy-efficient computers
Link to the press release:
https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/cs-news-single-view/news/video-prof-dr-plessl-und-prof-dr-kuehne-erhalten-forschungspreis-2018/
Link to the explanatory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=458Lz1ki-Uw
Link to the laudation:
Author Prof. Dr. Michael Dellnitz
Link to the press release of the results presentation:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/93039/
Research Award 2017
- Award winner: Dr. rer. net. Oliver Strube
- Project: Enzyme-moderated phosphorus regeneration
Link to press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/86141/
Link to the laudation:
Author Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jadran Vrabec
Link to the press release of the results presentation:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/90193/
Research Award 2016
- Award winner: Dr.-Ing. Britta Schramm
- Project: Additive manufacturing in medical technology
- Award winner: Dr.-Ing. Michael Leuer, Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Peters
- Project: Thermal-electrical design of highly efficient chargers for electric vehicles (UPB chargers)
Link to the press release:
https://ww.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/83022/
Research Award 2015
- Award winners: Dr. Markus Greulich, Dr. Simon Oberthür and Junior Professor Dr. Nicole M. Wilk
- Project: Historical Paderborn App (HiP-App) Interfaculty research project on agile software development and mobile multimodal mediation of pre-modern artefacts
- Award winners: Dr Karin Mora, Professor Dr Dr Claus Reinsberger
- Project: Neurophysiological epilepsy diagnostics through network-oriented data analysis
Link to the press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/73492/
Research Award 2014
- Prize winner: Dr. Adrian Keller
- Project: Self-assembled DNA nanowires for future information technology
- Award winner: Dr. Mirna Zeman
- Project: Cultural Cyclography of Things. Object circulations and (self-)biographies of artefacts
- Award winners: Junior Professor Dr. Artus Krohn-Grimberghe, Junior Professor Dr. Alexander Skopalik and Junior Professor Dr. Kevin Tierney
- Project: Acceleration of mixed-integer optimisation by exploiting variability
Link to the press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/61732/
Research Award 2013
- Prize winner: Professor Dr. Jochen Baumeister
- Project: Hybrid neurofeedback training environment for controlling novel hand prostheses
- Award winner: Junior Professor Dr. Michaela Geierhos
- Project: More than Words - Analysis of User Generated Content for the Identification of Latent Service Quality Characteristics
- Award winner: Dr. Jörg Schmalenströer
- Project: Reliable navigation in buildings
Link to the press release:
https://www.uni-paderborn.de/nachricht/52811/
Research Award 2012
- Prize winner: Dirk Prior
- Project: Lowering the operating temperature to increase the efficiency of photovoltaic modules by integrating phase change materials
- Prize winner: Dr. Kshitij Kulshreshtha and Dr.-Ing. Jens Rautenberg
- Project: Determination of the material characteristics of piezoelectric test specimens by measuring the electrical impedance and solving an inverse problem
Research Award 2011
- Prize winner: Junior Professor Dr. Hannes Frey
- Project: FlySense: Installation of wireless miniature sensors using autonomous flying robots
- Award winners: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf and Dr.-Ing. Özlem Özcan
- Project: Development of self-healing flexible barrier layers for highly ductile TWIP steels based on polyelectrolyte nanocomposite layers
Research Award 2010
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Frank Hellmich and Dr. Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert
- Project: Promoting reading skills among children with a migration background in primary school
- Award winners: Dr. Alexander Pawlis and Dr.-Ing. Matthias Stallein
- Project: Integrated optical network components for secure quantum communication
- Award winner: Dr. Christian Thierfelder
- Project: Investigation of molecular electron transfer processes with wavelet-based DFT
Research Award 2009
- Prize winners : Dr. Michael Ahlers and Dr. Thomas Strauch
- Project: Empirical recording of reciprocal creative strategies via improvisational approaches
- Award winners: Dr. Jens Förstner and Dr. Christian Plessl
- Project: Custom Computing Architectures for Nanophotonics
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Michael Hofmann and Professor Dr. Klaus von Stosch
- Project: Islam in Germany - Interculturality and Interreligious Discourse in Literature
- Award winners: PD Dr. Jörn Glasenapp, Dr. Claudia Lillge and Dr. Stefanie Rinke
- Project: Cultural Phenomenon Work: Self-Designs Topographies Value Attitudes
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Walter Sextro and Professor Dr. Andrea Walther
- Project: Simulation and optimisation of innovative lightweight construction materials
Research Award 2008
- Award winners: Dr.-Ing. André Brinkmann and Dr. Sonja Herres-Pawlis
- Project: Theoretical analysis of lactide polymerisation in a virtualised grid environment
- Award winners: Junior Professor Dr. Achim Koberstein and PD Dr. Elmar Lukas
- Project: IT-supported risk management in global production networks
- Award winner: Dr. Judith Rickers
- Project: A competence model of musical practising: the significance of the concept of practising and motivation regulation
Research Award 2007
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Stefan Betz and Dr. Christoph Laroque
- Project: Simultaneous quantity- and value-oriented analysis of intra- and inter-company material flows in a virtual environment
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Guido Grundmeier and Professor Dr. Wolf Gero Schmidt
- Project: Understanding corrosion mechanisms at interfaces: An experiment - theory - approach
- Award winners: Dr.-Ing. Karl-Peter Jäker and Dr. Wolfgang Müller
- Project: New methods for the parameterisation and reconfiguration of FlexRay networks using the example of X-by-Wire systems in a quarter vehicle test bench
Research Award 2006
- Prize winner: Dr. Kathrin Padberg
- Project: Approximation of time-dependent transport processes
- Prize winner: Dr.-Ing. Ulf Witkowski
- Project: Information technology for game analysis and training control in game sports
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Donat Josef As and Professor Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Hilleringmann
- Project: Field-effect transistors on a cubic group III nitride basis for future wireless data transmission
- Prize winners: Dr. Matthias Fischer and Dr. Martin Ziegler
- Project: Parameterised modelling and formal analysis of rendering algorithms
Research Award 2005
- Prize winner: Dr. Stefan Schweizer
- Project: New applications of glass ceramics in optoelectronics - upconversion in transparent zirconium fluoride glass ceramics
- Prize winner: Dr. Sabine Hochholdinger
- Project: Conditions of sustainable e-learning in companies
- Prize winner: Dr.-Ing. Tobias Hemsel and Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernd Henning
- Project: Tactile intraoperative tumour tissue differentiation in neurosurgery
Research Prize 2004
- Prize winner: Dr. Stefan Schweizer
- Project: New ways in digital radiography - detectors based on glass ceramics
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Ulrich Hilleringmann and Dr. Christian Schindelhauer
- Project: Development of a wireless, energy-efficient sensor network for determining filling levels using the example of a shelf system in retail trade
- Award winner: Dr. med. Holger Herwegen
- Project: Objective measurement of stress in personal health monitoring
- Award winner: Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Schlöß
- Project: Objective measurement of stress levels in personal health monitoring
- Award winner: Professor Dr. Bärbel Mertsching and Dr. Gudrun Oevel
- Project: Personalised learning with modular content
Research Award 2003
- Award winner: Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
- Project: Duality principles in frame theory
- Prize winner: Professor Dr. Gregor Fels and Professor Dr. Klaus Huber
- Project: Aggregation of proteins as a cause of disease
- Award winner: Dr. Thomas Sattel
- Project: Development of interactive hierarchical vehicle models for a virtual reality-based driving simulator for the evaluation of driver assistance systems
- Award winners: Dr. Christian Hennig and Dr. Tobias Hemsel
- Project: Production of powder coatings by ultrasound: Interdisciplinary approach to the technological optimisation of standing wave atomisation
Research Award 2002
- Award winners: Dr. Thomas Kater and Dr. Dierk Spreen
- Project: Ethical and socio-theoretical challenges of new wars in the 21st century
- Award winners: Dr. Dieter Bothe and Dr. Stefan Blazy
- Project: Process intensification of polymer production by networking innovative methods from natural science and information technology
- Award winner: Professor Dr. Peter Bürgisser
- Project: Representation-theoretic obstructions in complexity theory
- Prize winner: Associate Professor Dr. Siegmund Greulich-Weber
- Project: Doping of photonic crystals
- Prize winner: Dr. Jürgen Locher
- Project: The Influence of Automotive Infrared Systems on Speed and Gaze Behaviour
- Award winner: Professor Dr. Jutta Ströter-Bender
- Project: UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Art Education
Research Award 2001
- Award winner: Professor Dr. Mario Rese
- Project: Effectiveness and Efficiency in E-Commerce Networks
- Award winners: Professor Dr. Heinz Kitzerow and Associate Professor Dr. Bernhard Westermann
- Project: Liquid crystalline dendrimers for the information society
- Award winners: Dr. Oliver Junge and Dr. Robert Preis
- Project: Efficient control of interconnected spacecraft: reconfigurability of flight formation and communication structure
- Prize winner: Private lecturer Dr. Ingrid Colin
- Project: The influence of vehicle light distribution on safety and acceptance
- Awardwinner: Dr. Sigrid Blömeke
- Project: Teaching and learning with new media in the teaching of the subjects German, History, Computer Science, Mathematics and