Microbiology
Fourth Award
In this project, we aimed to investigate the potential use of phages (bacterial viruses) as a form of biocontrol against bacterial plant pathogens. Our goal was to specifically test the effe…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Monitoring inland waters such as rivers, lakes, and coastal regions is essential for understanding environmental processes and detecting pollution. Conventional measurement buoys are station…
Software Design
Third Award
Middle ear disorders are common but hard to diagnose without structural imaging. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) offers an accessible alternative to CT, yet it produces noisy and partial…
Embedded Systems
WLAN is used by pretty much everyone, and often carries sensitive data. However, the hardware is pretty much always very locked down and limited. This means, that it can't be audited for sec…
Technology Enhances the Arts
Third Award
Most smart glasses today are prohibitively expensive and closed source, making them difficult to integrate into custom projects. My vision is to make the beauty of AR more available worldwid…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The state of the vegetation on earth is an important indicator of our planet’s well-being. In this project, we tested the hypothesis that the prevalence of smartphones and other cameras coul…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Edible electronics mark the beginning of a new era of medical technology, replacing invasive diagnostic procedures with new applications, which range from non-invasive monitoring of the gast…
Physics and Astronomy
Warp drives are hypothetical solutions to Einstein's equations that might allow superluminal travel by expanding space behind a spaceship and contracting it in front. This project investigat…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A mechanical neural network (MNN) is made of many springs connected in a repeating pattern. Through adjustment of the spring constants, a MNN can be “taught" to exhibit one or more desired r…
Mathematics
The occurrence of Pi in the Mandelbrot set is a phenomenon which has been known since its discovery in 1991. It has enjoyed great popularity among mathematicians ever since, even appearing o…
Biochemistry
In this study, microbial fuel cells (MFCs) of our own design were inoculated with organisms of the species Shewanella oneidensis. S. oneidensis is a gram-negative, flagellum-motile bacterium…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Simply expressed, antibubbles are the material opposite of soap bubbles. They consist internally of a virtually spherical volume of fluid that is separated from the surrounding fluid, typica…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The study analyzed the antioxidant content in teas, coffees, red wines, and various fruits. The biological effect of antoxidants includes antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antiall…
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of this project is to discover a new extrasolar system and characterize its properties for the first time. For this purpose, I searched for periodic transit events in the light curve…
Animal Sciences
Non-native species pose a global threat to aquatic ecosystems, with the potential to spread rapidly, reduce biodiversity, and induce ecological changes. The globally distributed Australian t…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition primarily occurring in later life, severely impacting cognitive abilities until it ultimately leads to death. Due to demographic shi…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Climate change drives governments around the world to switch from carbon-based energy to renewable sources. Wind and solar power are very popular, yet storing enough energy for night or time…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Introduction While the incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma is rapidly increasing, the prognosis remains poor with a five-year survival rate of 20%. Therefore, the discovery of new molecul…
Physics and Astronomy
The expansion of the universe can be quantified by the Hubble Constant. This constant can be determined through different methods, such as by the cosmic microwave background, the Tully-Fishe…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Second Award
Amidst rising energy prices, electricity use is being reduced in Germany. This necessitates shutting down streetlights, their operation being cost-inefficient for communities. The efficiency…
Mathematics
In my research project I want to generalise the well-known concept of Riemann integration of functions on sequences in order to obtain a new tool for the investigation of sequences. To do th…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Fourth Award
Photovoltaic systems are becoming increasingly important. There is a central challenge to be solved here. Due to the series connection, the weakest cell always determines the total output. T…
Physics and Astronomy
When hydrocarbon is heated to its decomposition temperature pyrolytic graphite can be crystalized in ordered layers. This material has an unusual characteristic. It can levitate above a cheq…
Chemistry
The phosphate purification of wastewater via electroflotation first made us aware of phosphorus recycling and its importance in averting a global fertilizer crisis, which is currently threat…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Microorganisms are essential to our environment because of their importance to many ecosystems. As a result of improper disposal, a wide variety of substances pollute the environment, includ…
Plant Sciences
Fourth Award
The soil water balance is determined by the soil structure. Due to climate change, optimizing the water balance of agricultural soils is desired. In my previous project, I conceptualized the…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
A predominant cause of mass bee deaths is the parasite varroa destructor, a mite harming bee populations and making them more vulnerable to virus infections which the parasite may contract a…
Animal Sciences
The project “Land-based Aquaculture - Sustainable!” has the goal to study an aquaculture system on land that provides marine biomass with unpolluted water. The system's development is a solu…
Physics and Astronomy
Rubber bands have many uses in everyday life, but if you hang two metal balls on a twisted rubber band, a surprising physical effect is observed: The balls rotate alternately in both directi…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Fourth Award
A rocket, of 2.9 m height, made of fiberglass and measures all weather data during its flight such as: particulate matter, temperature, air quality, humidity, altitude, acceleration, rotatio…