Awards

Outstanding Master thesis

Huge congrats to Robin Labenski for winning the student prize for his master thesis at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum! 
His master thesis “Laser induced influence of charges in a dielectric barrier discharge under atmospheric pressure” discusses the improvement of plasma catalysts using a metal grid array with cavities of diameters between 50 and 200 µm. Using an Nd:YAG laser, the surface charges of the reactor could be manipulated to investigate the behaviour of the discharge.

Project A6 of the CRC 1316 (funded by the German Physical Society (DFG)), where this thesis was set, seems to be very successful in winning this prize. 2021 David Steuer won it for his master thesis and in 2023 Henrik van Impel won the prize with his bachelor thesis.