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Dr. Max Hausmann is awarded the dissertation prize of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Dr. Max Hausmann from the Chair of Mechanical Process Engineering at the University of Magdeburg has been awarded a prize for his dissertation. His work was supervised by CDS member Prof. Dr. Berend van Wachem. In his dissertation, Dr. Hausmann focused on the computer-aided modeling of turbulent, particle-laden flows. This phenomenon is something we encounter constantly in everyday life – for example, when we exhale, when smoke rises from a chimney, or when we look at the weather forecast.
Dr.-Ing. Laura König-Mattern was awarded the 2025 Deutscher Studienpreis by the Körber-Stiftung
Dr.-Ing. Laura König-Mattern is an alumna of the Process Engineering Department at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg. She was awarded second prize in the German Study Award for her doctoral thesis on "Systematic Solvent Screening and Design for Biomass Fractionation Processes."
Honorary Doctorate from Sofia University for Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern
CDS member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) in Sofia, Bulgaria, on November 25th, 2025.
Prof. Peter Benner admitted to acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering
CDS Director Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Benner was elected as a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering, by the General Assembly in October 2025. Prof. Peter Benner is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Head of the Department of Numerical Methods in Systems and Control Theory.