Julia Gottschall, a doctoral candidate at ForWind, the Centre for Wind Energy Research at the Universities of Oldenburg and Hanover, has reached the final of the European competition for young researchers, the ‘Shell She Study Award’. She came fourth in the final round. The award, presented by the Shell Foundation, is open exclusively to female applicants. Gottschall, whose PhD thesis is supervised by Prof. Dr Joachim Peinke (Institute of Physics), is researching the topic ‘The influence of wind turbulence on the power output of wind turbines’. In her work, she has developed models that can reproduce changes in the power output of wind turbines within a matter of seconds. Previous methods, by contrast, are based on averages over ten minutes. Contact: Julia Gottschall, Institute of Physics, Tel. 0441/798-399