Since 1979, the Umweltstiftung der Sparkasse Karlsruhe Ettlingen has supported scientific work on environmental protection and, together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), awards the Sparkasse Environmental Prize. On June 5, 2025, the 45th prize was presented at the International Department of KIT. Dr.-Ing. Fabian Hagen received the award for his outstanding dissertation. We warmly congratulate him on this distinction.
Photo: Professor Oliver Kraft (Vice President of KIT), Dr. Fabian P. Hagen, and Michael Huber (Sparkasse Karlsruhe).
The Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation promotes science and research, with a particular focus on environmental protection. Each year, the foundation awards the Dissertation Prize at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) for an outstanding thesis in environmental engineering and sciecnce. Further information is available on: http://www.boysen-stiftung.de/index.php/historie/preise-der-stiftung/
For his outstanding dissertation “On the Structure of Carbon Nanoparticles”, Dr.-Ing. Fabian P. Hagen received the 2024 Dissertation Prize of the Friedrich and Elisabeth Boysen Foundation. We warmly congratulate him on this achievement.
Photo: Professor Dr. Bettina Frohnapfel (curator of the foundation), awardee Dr. Fabian P. Hagen, and doctoral advisor Professor Dr. Dimosthenis Trimis.
The Gesellschaft der Freunde des Engler-Bunte-Instituts am KIT e.V. annually awards the Engler-Bunte Institute Prize for outstanding master’s theses in the fields of process engineering, energy, and water. The prize recognizes work distinguished by exceptional commitment, creativity, and methodological excellence.
In 2024, Daniel Kretzler, M.Sc., received the award for his thesis entitled “Two-dimensional high-speed imaging of the refractive-index function for absorption of soot particles.” The thesis was carried out under the supervision of Professor Trimis, with scientific guidance from Dr. Fabian Hagen and Professors Bockhorn and Suntz. Mr. Kretzler is now a doctoral researcher at the Engler-Bunte Institute, Combustion Technology, focusing on ammonia combustion. We warmly congratulate him on this award and wish him continued success in his research.
Photo: Dr. Martin Bernhart (Board Member of the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Engler-Bunte-Instituts) with Daniel Kretzler.
For their contribution “2D high-speed measurement technique for determining the refractive index function for absorption and the volume fraction of soot particles”, Fabian P. Hagen, Daniel Kretzler, Rainer Suntz, Henning Bockhorn, and Dimosthenis Trimis received the 2024 Poster Award of the DECHEMA/VDI Working Group on Particle Measurement Technology.
The Gesellschaft der Freunde des Engler-Bunte-Instituts am KIT e.V. annually awards the Engler-Bunte Institute Prize for outstanding master’s theses in the fields of process engineering, energy, and water. The prize recognizes work distinguished by exceptional commitment, creativity, and methodological excellence.
In 2022, Maurus Bauer, M.Sc., received the award for his master’s thesis entitled “Nanostructure and size distribution of carbon nanoparticles in counterflow flames using time-resolved laser-induced incandescence at three excitation wavelengths.” The thesis was carried out under the supervision of Professor Trimis, with scientific guidance from Fabian Hagen, M.Sc., and Professors Bockhorn and Suntz. Mr. Bauer is now a doctoral researcher at the Engler-Bunte Institute, Combustion Technology, focusing on hydrogen combustion. We warmly congratulate him on this award and wish him continued success in his research.
Photo: Dr. Martin Bernhart (Board Member of the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Engler-Bunte-Instituts) with Maurus Bauer.
Thorsten Zirwes received the Bernard Lewis Fellowship as one of six recipients at this year's International Symposium on Combustion in Vancouver, Canada. The prize has been awarded biannually since 1996 by the Combustion Institute in honor of the scientist Bernard Lewis to recognize outstanding research by young scientists.
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The KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e. V. (KFG) annually awards the Blanc & Fischer Innovation Award together with the KIT to honor the best dissertations in the field of engineering. The winners are selected with an emphasis on high innovative potential of the methods developed during the doctorate, successful transfer into practice, and excellent oral and written communication. The award is sponsored for three years by the company Blanc & Fischer. Thorsten Zirwes received the award together with two other prize winners for developing efficient computational methods to speed up the simulation of chemically reacting flows on supercomputers.
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In a 13-part series of articles, The Combustion Institute recognizes the 2022 Distinguished Papers selected from among the scientific papers presented during the 39th International Symposium on Combustion.
We are very proud that the manuscript "Effects of Low-Temperature Chemical Reactions on Ignition Kernel Development and Flame Propagation in a DME-Air Mixing Layer" by Yiqing Wang, Wang Han, Thorsten Zirwes, Feichi Zhang, Henning Bockhorn and Zheng Chen, has been selected as the Distinguished Paper in the "Laminar Flames" colloquium for the 39th International Symposium on Combustion.
The list of distinguished papers and authors will be added soon to the "awards"-page of the Combustion Institute's website