Archive 2023
CDS Progress Meeting on the topics of Active Substances and Energy Conversion
The last CDS Progress Meeting of the year took place on December 11, 2023. Hon.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Stein and Dr. Fabian Sewerin presented their research on the topics of Active Substances and Energy Conversion in 20-minute talks.
Researchers from the University of Magdeburg elected to the DFG Review Board
The CDS Members Dr.-Ing. Tanja Vidakovic-Koch and Prof. Dr. Peter Benner, along with six other researchers of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, have been elected to the review board of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (German Research Foundation).
Frontiers Honour: Prof. Dr. Lavrik Editor of the Year 2023
CDS member Prof. Dr. habil. rer. nat. Inna Lavrik, Professor of Translational Inflammation Research at the Faculty of Medicine at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, has been honoured with the Editorial Board Award of the journal Frontiers in Cell Death and Survival.
From greenhouse gas to green fuel
The expansion of renewable energies will increasingly lead to temporary surpluses of electricity. The ability to store these surpluses is therefore of great importance.
New members in the CDS
By decision of the Board of Directors Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Julian Thiele was admitted to the CDS as a new member and Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Duvigneau was admitted to the CDS as a new junior member.
Prof. Dr. Julian Thiele headed a junior research group of the Leibniz Research Cluster for Next Generation Cell-Free Biotechnology at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer research in Dresden. In Dresden Thiele was involved in setting up the Leipzig Application Laboratory "Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing". The chemist was appointed to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in August 2022.
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Dr.-Ing. Stefanie Duvigneau has been working at the Institute of Automation Technology (IFAT) at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2016 and is leading the working group "Synthesis of Sustainable Biotechnological Processes" since 2023. In 2023, she was awarded the Klaus Erich Polliman Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, at the academic ceremony of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. This honoured her outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical and experimental analysis of biopolymer production in microorganisms.