2019
2019
- DAAD Prize for Syrian Master’s student in Engineering Physics
Talat Khonsur has been honoured for his outstanding credits and voluntary work. The Institute of Physics extends its warmest congratulations!
A press release can be found here. - Invitation to an afternoon of interactive experiments:
The perfect wave – interactive experiments, physics demonstrations and mulled wine - Challenges in wind energy research
What innovations are needed to enable wind to become one of the world’s most important sources of cost-effective electricity generation? An international team of scientists has identified the three biggest challenges facing wind energy research. Prof. Dr Joachim Peinke and Dr Stephan Barth from ForWind are part of the team of authors who have now published their findings in the scientific journal *Science*. Here is a link to the original publication in *Science*. - Awards for the best doctoral theses from the Oldenburg University Society (22 October 2019)
This year’s prize for the best doctoral thesis at Carl von Ossietzky University was awarded today to two former doctoral candidates from the Institute of Physics, Dr Stefanie Kerbstadt and Dr Jan Vogelsang. Congratulations!
Here is a video about the two prize winners. - On 29 March 2019, the ‘Didactics of Physics and Science Communication’ working group led by Prof. Dr Michael Komorek is inviting all current A-level students in the region to an information afternoon at the Institute of Physics to share their experiences of studying to become physics teachers. A flyer for the event can be found here.
- The Georg Simon Ohm Prize awarded by the German Physical Society for outstanding, recently completed work by a student of physical engineering or related degree programmes at universities of applied sciences goes to M.Sc. Robin Yoël Engel for his outstanding final thesis ‘Planning, Simulation and Preparation of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiment based on the Detection of Anisotropic Gamma Radiation from Hyperpolarised Isomers’ in the Master’s degree programme in ‘Engineering Physics’ at the University of Oldenburg. The thesis makes an important contribution to imaging with hyperpolarised radionuclides and combines the high spatial resolution of magnetic resonance imaging with sensitive detection for nuclear medicine.
Congratulations!! - Svend-Age Biehs has been awarded the Gustav Hertz Prize by the German Physical Society for his significant contributions to the understanding of near-field-induced radiative heat transport, in particular the near-field thermal microscope. His contribution to the development of a thermal transistor and his discovery of thermal bistability are of great significance. Furthermore, his research into super-Planckian radiation from hyperbolic metamaterials is groundbreaking.
Congratulations!!