BASF Schwarzheide GmbH and the Society of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden e.V. award the BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Sponsorship Prize in recognition of outstanding student and scientific work in the field of process engineering , particularly in the areas of sustainability or digitalization.

Prize money
The BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Sponsorship Award is donated by BASF Schwarzheide GmbH. The sponsorship can be endowed with the following weights

• Student dissertation 500 euros
• Diploma/Master's thesis 1000 euros
• Dissertation 1500 Euro

Jury
A jury consisting of representatives of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH and university lecturers from the Faculties of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Sciences at TU Dresden will evaluate and select the winners.

The award
The BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Sponsorship Award is presented in the faculties from which the award winners come.





Award winners 2023

• Dipl.-Ing. Lisa Dahrmann, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Diploma thesis: Investigations into the recycling of injection molding compounds
• Philipp Weigel, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, thesis for the research internship: Numerical simulation of the structural and pull-out behavior of parametrically generated profiled carbon polymer yarns
• Patrick Schlereth, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, project work for the research internship: Investigation of bubble-particle attachment and surface packing on a capillary-held bubble in a model stirred cell - an approach to quantify particle floatability

Prize winner:inside 2022

• Dr. David-Maximilian Storch (Faculty of Physics), Dissertation: Statistical Physics of Urban Mobility
• Dipl.-Ing. Florian Gast (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Diploma thesis: Phase Estimation for Communication Systems with 1-bit Quantization and Oversampling in the Presence of Phase Noise
• Tine Marquardt (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering), thesis: Development and investigation of a neural network as a benchmark for a multi-product system

Prize winner:inside 2021

• Dipl.-Ing. Sabine Franke (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering), Diploma thesis "Oxygen accumulation by photosynthesis in tubular photobioreactors and its impact on the cultivation process of Arthrospira platensis"
• Dr.-Ing. Martin Köhler (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering), dissertation "Method for the speciating investigation of reaction products in lime additive-based flue gas cleaning systems"
• Dipl.-Ing. Markus Weihrauch (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering), thesis "Model-based predictive control for planning multidimensional motion sequences of an electric drive system with memory"

Current calls for proposals can be found under Calls for proposals