The Boysen Foundation Scholarship Prize

The Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation and TU Dresden award the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation scholarship prize to early-career researchers for particularly outstanding dissertations in the field of environmental technology, with a focus on engineering solutions for the reduction of pollutants, noise and energy consumption.

The founder, Friedrich August Boysen, was an airship engineer and pioneer of modern muffler technology. He founded his first company in Leipzig in 1921. After the Second World War, he made a new start in the south of Germany, where he founded today’s Boysen Group. His wife, Elisabeth Boysen, continued her husband's life's work and developed the company into an international systems partner in the fields of exhaust gas purification and silencing. In 1996, the company formed a non-profit foundation to promote science and research in the field of environmental technology. The foundation offers a funding sum of up to one million euros annually.

The Award
Every year, the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation awards a scholarship prize to TU Dresden. The scholarship prize is endowed with a total of €5,000.

The Jury
Alongside TU Dresden’s Vice-Rector Research and representatives of the Foundation Board and Advisory Board of the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation, Faculty representatives also participate in assessing the entries.

Award Ceremony
The award ceremony for the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation scholarship prize takes place in the winners’ faculties.

Applications
The call for applications always opens in the first quarter of the year. Those who completed and successfully defended their work between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year are eligible for nomination. Lecturers of TU Dresden may suggest nominees for the prize. Personal applications are also accepted.

2024 Winner

• Dr.-Ing. Juliane Moritz, Faculty of Mechanical Engineerin , Dissertation: Mikrostrukturanpassung und Hochtemperaturoxidationsverhalten der additiv gefertigten Titanaluminiumlegierung Ti-43,5Al-4Nb-1Mo-0,1B 

2023 Winner

• Dr. Milad Eftekhari, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dissertation: The effect of ultrafine particles on the interfacial and hydrodynamic properties of multiphase systems

• Dr. Stefan Heidinger, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dissertation: Heat and Mass Transfer to Particles in Pulsating Flows

2021 Winner

• Dr. David Becker-Koch, Natural Science and Mathematics, Dissertation: „Degradation mechanisms in PbS and AgBiS2 quantum dot photovoltaic devices“ sowie
• Dr. Nadja Steinke, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Dissertation: „Plasmonic sensor for the on-site detection of diclofenac molecules“. 

2020 Winner
On the “Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering Day” on October 9, 2021, Dr. Franziska Graube-Kühne received an award for her dissertation titled “Methode zur Online-Diagnose der Verschmutzungen von Dampferzeugermembranwänden” (“Method for online diagnosis of contamination of steam generator membrane walls”).

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Current call for applications

Winner 2019 - 2002

2019

Dr. Tobias Ott, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dissertation: „Leistungsstarke Infrarotemitter mit schrägwinkelbedampften Emissionsschichten“

2018

Dr. - Ing. Christine Partmann, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Dissertation: SICHERHEIT VON BRENNELEMENT-LAGERBECKEN, Experimentelle und theoretische Untersuchungen zur Nachwärmeabfuhr von abgebrannten Brennelementen in Nasslagern  bei auslegungsüberschreitenden Störfällen

2017

Dr.-Ing. Hans-Ulrich Härting, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering,  Dissertation: „Characterization of an inclined rotating tubular fixed bed reactor”

2015

Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Schelter, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences,  Dissertation: „Entwicklung eines Festelektrolytsensor-Messsytems für die coulometrische Spurenanalytik“.

2014

Dr.-Ing.
Carsten Pohlmann, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Dissertation: „Herstellung und Eigenschaften hydridbasierter Verbundwerkstoffe mit hoher Energie- und Leistungsdichte für die Wasserstoffspeicherung“.

Dr.-Ing. Anton Philipp Anthofer, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering,  Dissertation: „Oberflächenentschichtung mittels Laserstrahlung - Untersuchungen zur Dekontamination radioaktiv und chemisch-toxisch belasteter Betonoberflächen mittels Lasertechologie“.

2013

Dr.-Ing. Mathias Neumann, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2012

Dr.rer.nat. Christiane Falkenberg, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences

2011

Dr.-Ing. Christian Knochenhauer, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2010

Dr.-Ing. Dorith Böhning, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2009

Dr.-Ing. Andrea Ohle, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2008

Dr.rer.nat. Gregor Schwartz, Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences

2007

Dr.-Ing. Klaus Ramming, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2006

Dr.-Ing. Alexander Pfriem, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2005

Dr.-Ing. Hans-Georg Willschütz, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2004

Dr.-Ing. André Winger, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2003

Dr.-Ing. Olaf Täger, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering

2002

Dr.-Ing. Jana Helm, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering