Research Award 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

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:

Author Dr. Oliver Seewald

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