Two members of cfaed, Anja Henning and David Teich, will receive the Professor Schwabe Award of the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden 2013 for young scientists. The Award Ceremony led by the prorector for research, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Rödel, will be held on July 11, at 5 pm, in the Erich-Müller-Building.
Anja Henning wrote her PhD thesis about the use of DNA-templates for the creation of functional DNA-nanostructures. The thesis was completed in less than three years at the graduate school “Nano- and Biotechnology for the packaging of electronic systems” and was unanimously graded with “summa cum laude” by the supervisors. Anja Henning collaborated with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and published her research results in the journal “Nature Communications”. The self-control potential of DNA shall be used for the construction of new transistors which could be part of a new generation of microchips. Therefore, Dr. Anja Henning currently works as group leader in the “Biomolecular-Assembled Circuits Path” of the Center for Advancing Electronics. In August 2013, she will however start a new research project at the University of Oxford.
David Teich chose the simulation of nanostructures and their potential as energy storage for topic of his A-graded master thesis. This potential of carbon nanostructure is also interesting for the cfaed research path “Carbon” where David Teich is now preparing his PhD thesis. The chemist published his research results together with American and Japanese fellows in the renowned scientific journal “Physical Review Letters”. The publications of Anja Henning and David Teich have also been cited often by other researchers.
Since 1996, the Professor Schwabe Award is being awarded for excellent PhD or Master theses in the area of physical or electronic chemistry. The founder of the Award, Prof. Kurt Schwabe (1905 - 1983), used to be the rector of the TU Dresden from 1961 to 1965. In 1945, he also founded a research institute, today known as the “Kurt-Schwabe-Institute for process measuring and control technology of Meinsberg”.

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