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.
2026 Winner
Laudator: Prof. M. Beckmann; Winner: Dr. J. Manthey
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Manthey, FFaculty of Mechanical Engineerin, Dissertation: Blasenbildung aufgrund von Übersättigung im Kühlkreislauf der PEM-Elektrolys
2025 Winner
Dr.-Ing. Juliane Moritz
- Dr.-Ing. Juliane Moritz, Faculty of Mechanical Engineerin , Dissertation: Mikrostrukturanpassung und Hochtemperaturoxidationsverhalten der additiv gefertigten Titanaluminiumlegierung Ti-43,5Al-4Nb-1Mo-0,1B
2024 Winner
Dr..Ing. Juliane Moritz
- 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