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The Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation's Future Prize for Economics will be awarded for the first time in 2026, replacing the Dr. Walter Seipp Prize after 30 years. The Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation also honors outstanding work by young scientists from all faculties and scientific institutions at TU Dresden with its dissertation prizes.
The university prizes have been awarded for 25 years. The Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation thus contributes to the targeted promotion of young scientists and the improvement of the quality of teaching and research. The prizes are intended to create incentives that motivate scientific work and innovation, thereby helping to prepare society for the challenges of the future.
The Commerzbank Cultural Foundation Dresden honors an outstanding dissertation or thesis (diploma, master's) from the Faculty of Economics with the “Commerzbank Cultural Foundation Dresden Future Prize for Economics.” The prize money is €5,000. The criterion for the submitted works is a grade of distinction or summa cum laude.
The university prizes have been awarded for 25 years. The Commerzbank Foundation and the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation thus make a contribution to promoting early-career researchers in a targeted manner and increasing the quality of teaching and research. The prizes are intended to create incentives that motivate academic work and innovation and thus help to prepare society for the challenges of the future.
The Commerzbank Cultural Foundation Dresden honors an outstanding dissertation with the The Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation's Future Prize. The prize money amounts to 5,000 euros.
In addition, two dissertation prizes will be awarded by the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation, each with prize money of €1,000.
The theses should demonstrate innovative potential, be socially relevant, and have been awarded a summa cum laude grade. Nominations may be submitted by the deans of the faculties, the departmental spokespersons, and the directors of the scientific institutions at TUD. Two dissertations may be submitted per structural unit. The current call for entries for the award can be found >>here.
Selection of the prize winners
The criterion for the dissertations to be submitted is a summa cum laude rating. Ideally, the work should have innovative potential and be of social relevance. The deans of the faculties and the directors of the Academic Directors of TU Dresden are entitled to nominate candidates.
Jury
The jury for the Commerzbank Prizes is made up of representatives of Commerzbank AG, the Rector and representatives of the departments.
Award ceremony
The award ceremony is held by the Rector and representatives of Commerzbank.
Winners of the Dr. Walter Seipp Prize of the Commerzbank Foundation
The Dr. Walter Seipp Prize originates from the Commerzbank Foundation's fund of the same name, which was established in 1990 by Dr. Walter Seipp, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank from 1981 to 1991 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board until 1999.
Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Feldbauer, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Dissertation: Drinking water reservoirs in a changing climate: Mechanistic simulations of water quality as a contribution to the management strategy
Beate Sopart, Dr. Johannes Feldbauer, Prof.in U. Staudinger
Liliya Mukhametzyanova, Ph.D., Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dissertation: Increasing the utility of evolved site-specific recombinases for genome editing
Preisträgerin Liliya Mukhametzyanova, Ph.D. (Zoom), Alice Neumann (Commerzbank AG), Kanzler Dipl.-Ök. Jan Gerken
Dr. Matteo Cucchi, School of Science, Dissertation: Organic electrochemical networks for biocompatible and implantable machine learning
Dr. Melissa Adasme, CMCB, dissertation "Structure-based drug repositioning by exploiting structural properties of drug's binding mode"
v.l.n.r. Heike Heuberger (Commerzbank-Stiftung), Preisträgerin Dr. Melissa Adasme, Rektorin Prof.in Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger
Dr. Maja Kevdzija, Faculty of Architecture, Dissertation: Mobility-Supporting Rehabilitation Clinics: Architectural design criteria for promoting stroke patients' independent mobility and accommodating their changing spatial needs during the transition towards recovery
Burkhard von der Osten (Commerzbank AG), Preisträgerin Dr. Maja Kevdzija, die Rektorin sowie Prof.in Gesine Marquardt (Fakultät Architektur)
Dr. Magdalena Katharina Wekenborg, Faculty of Psychologie, Dissertation: When the heart burns out: the predictive power of repeated heart rate variability measurements for the development and pathogenesis of burnout.
Burkhard von der Osten, Dr. Magdalena Wekenborg, Prof.in Ursula M. Staudinger
2018
Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Kister, Faculty of Computer Science, Dissertation: „Interactive Visualization Lenses:
Natural Magic Lens Interaction for Graph Visualization“.
2017
Ph. D. Bin Cai, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Dissertation: Metallic Hierarchical Aerogels for Electroanalytic Applications.
2016
Dr. rer. nat. Aline Hauke Alrun, Faculty of Mathematics, Dissertation: Vertical Organic Field-Effect Transistors - On the Understanding of a Novel Device Concept.
2015
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schmidt, Faculty of Civil Engineering
2014
Dr.-Ing. Peter Cimalla, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dissertation „Entwicklung und Anwendung eines neuartigen optischen Dualband-Kohärenztomografie-Systems für die biomedizinische Bildgebung“
2013
Dr.-Ing. Sophie Stellmach, Faculty of Computer Science, Dissertation: „Gaze-supported Multimodal Interaction“
2012
Dr. rer. nat. Friedrich Martin Schneider, Faculty of Mathematics
2011
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Flachowsky, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2010
Dr. rer. nat. Martin Loose, Faculty of Mathematics
2009
Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Härtling, Faculty of Mathematics
2008
Dr.rer.pol. Gunther Marquardt, Faculty of Business and Economic
2007
Dr. rer. nat. Maletti, Andreas, Faculty of Computer Science
2006
Dr. rer. nat. Katja Beesdo, Faculty of Mathematics
2005
Dr. Mirko Trajkovski, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
2004
Dr. Jens Sickor, Law School
Robert Grützmann
2003
Timéa Katalin Ráth-Végh, M.A., Law School
2002
Milena Wenske, Law School
2001
Magdalena Cerfas, Law School
2000
Claudia Brandt, M.A., Law School
1999
Dr. phil. Rainer Schmidt, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
1998
Dr. rer. pol. Axel Jochem, Faculty of Business and Economics
1997
Dipl.-Hdl. Nicole Rhein, Faculty of Business and Economics
Winners of the Dissertation Prize of the Commerzbank Dresden Cultural Foundation
Dr. med. Haidy Amr Abdelfatah Saleh Hassan, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Dissertation: Immunotherapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma Using Switchable Adaptor RevCAR T- and NK-92-Cell Platforms
Dr.-Ing. Sara Marchini, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Development of a Methodology for Measuring Axial Gas Dispersion Coefficients in Bubble Columns using Gas Flow Modulation
Dr. Wolfgang Büschel, Faculty of Computer Science, Dissertation: Spatial Interaction for Immersive Mixed-Reality Visualizations
Dr. Felix Schilk, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Dissertation: Die neurechte Erzählgemeinschaft. A sociology of conservative crisis narratives
Preisträger Dr. Wolfgang Büschel (Mitte), Alice Neumann (Commerzbank AG) sowie Kanzler Dipl.-Ök. Jan Gerken
Preisträger Dr. Felix Schilk (Mitte), Alice Neumann (Commerzbank AG), Kanzler Dipl.-Ök. Jan Gerken
Dr. Wojciech Ozga, Faculty of Computer Science, dissertation: Hardening High-Assurance Security Systems with Trusted Computing
Dr. Juliane Wagner, Faculty of Civil Engineering, dissertation: On the load-bearing behavior of carbon concrete under fatigue loading
Dr. Wojciech Ozga
Dr. Juliane Wagner
Dr. Elisabeth Ansel, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science, Dissertation: Jack B. Yeats. National identity constructions in Irish modernism,
Dr. Matthias Geyer, Faculty of Physics, Dissertation: Models for Spin-Dependent Transport in Helical Molecules.
Dr. Jens Bornschein, Faculty of Computer Science, dissertation: Multimodal collaborative sign system for blind users
Dr. Yuan Liu, Faculty of Physics, Dissertation: Intermolecular charge transfer systems for efficient OLEDs: charge and exciton dynamics
2020
Dr.-Ing. Jens Bornschein, Faculty of Computer Science
Dr. rer. nat. Yuan Liu, Faculty of Physics
2019
Dr. rer. nat. Simon Werner Krause, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Dr.-Ing. Mandy Keck, Faculty of Computer Science
2018
Dr. phil. Sara Al-Nassir, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Dr. rer.nat. Martin Schwarze, Faculty of Physics
2017
Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Salentin, Faculty of Computer Science/ BIOTEC
Dr. rer. nat. Anett Kretschmer-Trendowicz, Faculty of Psychology
2016
Dr. rer. nat. Paul Müller, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences / BIOTEC
Dr.-Ing. Felix Krujatz, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
2015
Dr. med. Katja Thomas, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Hilbrich, Faculty of Computer Science
2014
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Borgwardt, Faculty of Computer Science
Dr. rer. nat. Anne-Kristin Herrmann, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2013
Dr.-Ing. Mathias Neumann, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. rer. nat. Susann Steudte, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2012
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Kempe, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Dr. iur. Anne Lauber-Rönsberg, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
2011
Dr. rer. nat. Frank Möller, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
Dr. rer. nat. Diana Armbruster, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2010
Dr.-Ing. Andreas Fischer, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr.rer.nat. Gert Weller, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2009
Dr.-Ing. André Bieberle, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. iur. Karsten Schwipps, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
2008
Dr. med. univ. Dr. med. dent. Bernd Markus Stadlinger, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
Dr. rer. nat. Tina Gehlert, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2007
Dr.-Ing. Regine Ortlepp, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Dr. phil. Susanne Cuevas, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
2006
Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Jens Otto, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Dr. rer. pol. B. Cornelia Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, Faculty of Business and Economics
2005
Katrin Pöttrich, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus
Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Faculty of Computer Science
2004
Dr. Ralf Zimmermann, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Simone Mergen, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Dr. Thomas Ellwart, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences
2003
Friederike Kunckel, M.A., Faculty of Business and Economics
2002
Marco Weimann, Faculty of Business and Economics
Timo Mehrmann, Faculty of Business and Economics
2001
Sabine Hansen, Faculty of Business and Economics
2000
Dr. Tamás Madarassy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
1999
Dipl.-Kfm. Jens Körner, Faculty of Business and Economics
1998
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Mirko Schäfer, Faculty of Business and Economics
1997
Dipl.-Kfm. Torsten Fleischer, Faculty of Business and Economics
1996
Dipl.-Kfm. Jens Vogt, Faculty of Business and Economics
Dipl.-Kffr. Ines Harzer, Faculty of Business and Economics
Call for applications
The current call for applications can be found under Current calls for applications