Dr. Bjarne Kreitz, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, USA, received the Hanns Hofmann Prize 2025 for his pioneering work on DFT-based
calculation of microkinetic reaction models of heterogeneously catalysed reactions, taking into account
correlated uncertainties in the DFT-calculated energetic parameters. The prize is endowed with 1000 €.
The title of his award lecture was "Progress towards predictive multiscale modeling in heterogeneous catalysis"
For her excellent oral presentation the Young Talent Award was presented to Lydia Weseler, Clausthal University of Technology. The prize is endowed with a prize money of €500 and the reimbursement of the conference fee.
The Young Talent Award 2025 is sponsored by Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik
Hemanth Appala1, Kamila Ishakova2, Bahne Sosna3, Olof Gutowski2, Thomas Sheppard4, Oliver Korup1, Raimund Horn1
1Hamburg University of Technology, 2Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 3REACNOSTICS GmbH, 4Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
"Operando Profiling of Industrial Catalysts by simultaneous powder X-ray diffraction tomography with intrapellet species concentration and temperature profiles"
Janis Schmitt, RWTH Aachen University
"Electrochemical Activation of Ni-Fe-Anodes for Alkaline Water Electrolysis at Varying Concentration and Temperature"
Hannes Stagge, Max Gäßler, Tuana Oyuncu, Robert Güttel, Ulm University
"Neural RTD: A Method for Determining Residence Time Distributions from Experimental Data via Convolutional Neural Networks"
Danny Stark1, Alfons Drochner1, Tanja Franken1, Bastian J. M. Etzold2,
1Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
"Kinetic and Mechanistic Insights into the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethanol on Iron-Molybdenum Oxide Catalysts"
Katharina Wiegers1, Frederic Buck2, Thomas Schiestel2, Rodrigo Antunes3, Ante Hecimovic3, Andreas Schulz1, Matthias Walker1, Ursel Fantz3, Günter E.M. Tovar1,
1University of Stuttgart (IGVP), 2Fraunhofer IGB, Stuttgart, 3Max Planck Institute for plasma physics, Garching
"Oxygen Separation in the Effluent of a CO2 Plasma"
