Chair of Particle-Based Materials Chemistry (PBMC)
Luise Prell-Faculty-Prize for Benita Stein von Kamienski
Benita was awarded the Faculty’s-Prize for her excellent Master’s! Big congratulations Benita😊
Zerweck-Prize for Céline Untch
Céline was awarded one of the Department’s Zerweck-Prizes for her excellent Master’s! Big congratulations Céline😊
Kekulé Scholarship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for Benita
PhD candidate Benita Stein von Kamienski has been awarded a prestigious Kekulé Scholarship by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI). The scholarship recognizes outstanding academic achievements as well as the scientific excellence and innovative potential of her proposed doctoral research project. In her doctoral research in the Mandel Group, Benita develops magnetic supraparticles that can…
VAA Foundation Excellence Award for Dr. Jakob Reichstein
Excellent ideas for a strong industry – VAA Foundation honors a successful young researcher from FAU in the field of chemistry 2025: At the VAA Annual Conference on November 7, 2025, in Essen, Dr. Jakob Reichstein (at the chair of Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel, FAU), Dr. Maximilian Baur, Dr. Ieva A. Cechanaviciute-Misiune, and Dr. Joe…
STAEDTLER Foundation doctoral award for Dr. Jakob Reichstein
The STAEDTLER FOUNDATION promotes cutting-edge research and honors doctoral students at FAU at its 2025 annual meeting For the 27th consecutive year, the STAEDTLER Foundation honored doctoral students from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) at its 2025 annual meeting. This year’s doctoral awards were presented to a total of eleven winners at a ceremony held at…
Poster Prize for Romain!
Romain won the Materials Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry) poster prize on synthesis methods at the 12th International Conference on Fine Particle Magnetism (ICFPM 2025) in Bariloche, Argentina, where he presented two posters on the correlation of the structural and magnetic morphology of nanoparticles with a case-study on manganese doped cobalt ferrite nanocubes towards hyperthermia applications and on the influence of metal…
Congratulations to Jakob!
Jakob received one of the prestigious scholarships of Evonik to fund his PhD. Well done, Jakob.
Best Poster Award for Sara Li Deuso at DRC 2024
At the first Battery Direct Recycling Conference held in Würzburg, Sara Li Deuso gave an insight into her research on magnetic supraparticles as identifiers in single-layer lithium-ion battery pouch cells. She received an award for the best poster – including a nice t-shirt! More on the topic can be found here. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202401142
Best Poster Award for Andreas Wolf at ICM
Andreas Wolf presented his work on magnetic supraparticles capable of recording high temperature events in from of a poster at the 22nd International Conference on Magnetism held in Bologna, Italy. The many hours going into the design of the figures of this work payed off, as he recieved the Best Poster Award. More on the…
Poster Prize for Andi Zink
Andreas Zink was voted by the participants of the Spray-drying Symposium 2024 as one of the two winners of a poster prize – Congratulations Andi!
Best Presentation Award
On September 8-9 2023, the 10. HybridSensorNet Symposium was held at the ZEISS Innovation Hub in Karlsruhe, Germany. The focus topic of this years’ symposium was “Innovative sensors, distributed sensor systems, new technologies and application fields”. Sarah and Jakob from The Supraparticle Group contributed with a tandem lecture on “Safety through visibility: Supraparticles make H2…
Doctoral scholarship for Leoni from the DBU
Leoni Luthardt has received a doctoral scholarship from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) for her Ph.D. thesis on inductively heatable supraparticles and their application in the fields carbon capture and design for recycling. Congrats Leoni !
Another award for Stephans PhD thesis
Additional to the Zerweck Award of the FAU and the H.C. Starck Tungsten price of the GDCh, Stephan Müssig has also received the Nano Innovation Award of the Center for Nanoscience in Munich for his excellent PhD thesis on the „Development of supraparticles suitable for magnetic identification tags“. The award honors application-oriented research in the…
H.C. Starck Tungsten price of the GDCh for Stephans PhD thesis
Dr. Stephan Müssig received another price for outstanding research in the field of solid state chemistry and materials research during a doctoral thesis. He has received the prestigious H.C. Starck Tungsten price of the GDCh professional group material research and solid state chemistry (GDCh Fachgruppe Materialforschung und Festkörperchemie). Congratulations, Stephan! A press release with more…
Zerweck Awards for supraparticle group members
Dr. Stephan Müssig (left) and Leoni Luthardt (right) from the Supraprticle Group have recieved awards for their excellent theses from the department of chemistry and pharmacy. Dr. Stephan Müssig has recieved the Zerweck-Promotionspreis for his PhD thesis titled „Development of supraparticles suitable for magnetic identification tags“. Leoni Luthardt got awarded the Zerweck-Masterpreis for her masters…