On Monday 17 February 2014 six graduates of the University of Bremen were awarded prizes for the outstanding final theses they submitted in 2013. The unifreunde society [Friends of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University] has been rewarding such exceptional academic achievement with the Bremen Study Prize ever since 1983. At the ceremony two special prizes were awarded for doctoral theses in the natural and engineering sciences. The prizes are sponsored by the private enterprise Bruker Daltonik GmbH and the Bremen-Roland Rotary Club.
The prize giving ceremony took place in a packed auditorium in the presence of Bremen’s Senator for Education and Research, Eva Quante-Brandt, and Prof. Bengt Beutler, Chairperson of “unifreunde”. The laudation was held by Prof. Kurosch Rezwan, the University of Bremen’s Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics. Musical accompaniment was provided by the Bremen trio Permesso.
The prizewinners and the special prizes:
Doctoral Thesis in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
Dr. Sigrid Kannengießer
Topic:“Translokale Ermächtigungskommunikation. Die mediatisierte Vergemeinschaftung zivilgesellschaftlicher Akteure“ [Translocal empowering communications. The mediatized communitization of civilian actors]
Magister Thesis in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
Anke Katharina Drewitz
Topic: “Religiöse Vergemeinschaftung im Internet am Beispiel des Cube-Mags und des Misawa-Forums“ [Religious communitization in the Internet on the example of Cube-Mags and the Misawa Fora]
Doctoral Thesis in the Natural Sciences:
Dr.-Ing. Yasir Zaki
Topic: “Future Mobile Communications: LTE Optimization and Mobile Network Virtualization”
Master Thesis in the Natural and Engineering Sciences:
Peter Hansen
Topic: “Non-Uniform Data Complexity of Query Answering in the Presence of Weakly Guarded TGDs”
The Bruker Daltonik Special Prize:
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Veltzke
Topic: “On gaseous microflows under isothermal conditions”
Bremen-Roland Rotary Club Special Prize:
Dr. Amin Ardestani
Topic: “Targeting beta-cell apoptosis in diabetes: The role mammalian Sterile Kinase 1 (MST1)”
