The Friedrich and Elisabeth BOYSEN Foundation and the TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD) honor particularly outstanding dissertations by young TUD scientists in the field of environmental technology with a focus on engineering solutions for the reduction of pollutants, noise and energy consumption with the Friedrich and Elisabeth BOYSEN Foundation Award.

TUD university lecturers are eligible to nominate candidates. Self-applications are also possible. The work should have been completed and successfully defended between January 1 and December 31, 2024. Proposals for the award will be accepted by the University Executive Board until April 30, 2025 (submission deadline has been extended), by e-mail (contact: Mandy Dziubanek, Mandy Dziubanek).

In addition to the form, a justification, a copy of the thesis, copies of the reviews, the doctoral certificate and a CV including a list of publications must be submitted. The award ceremony will take place on the day of the award winner's faculty or at an appropriate ceremony at the TUD.

The founder Friedrich August Boysen was an airship engineer who became a pioneer of modern silencer technology and founded his first company in Leipzig in 1921. At the end of the Second World War, he succeeded in making a new start in southern Germany, marking the birth of today's Boysen Group. His wife Elisabeth Boysen continued her husband's life's work and developed the company into an international system partner in the fields of exhaust gas purification and soundproofing. In 1996, the company was transformed into a non-profit foundation and since then has promoted science and research in the field of environmental technology, including the annual award of a sponsorship prize for outstanding dissertations at TUD. The award is endowed with prize money of €5,000.

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