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Awards for outstanding theses

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Group photo with the Rizkallah family, board members and award winners.

The Victor Rizkallah Stiftung and the Stiftung NiedersachsenMetall have once again honoured graduates of Leibniz University Hannover for their outstanding theses. The award ceremony took place on 10 October at the Leibnizhaus.

Two award winners are graduates and scientists of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science: Dr Clemens Jonscher was honoured for his dissertation entitled "A probabilistic approach of vibration-based structural health monitoring for wind turbine towers" at the Institute of Structural Analysis (supervisor: Prof. Raimund Rolfes). Christian Grannemann, M.Sc., received the award for his master's thesis on "Uncertainty Awareness in Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction: An Efficient Evidential Deep Learning Approach" at the Institute of Photogrammetry and GeoInformation.

The event was opened by the founder, Prof. Victor Rizkallah. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Achmus welcomed guests as Chairman of the Foundation. This was followed by welcoming remarks from Prof. Dr. Volker Epping, President of Leibniz University Hannover, and Dipl.- Ök. Olaf Brandes, Managing Director of the Stiftung NiedersachsenMetall.

The subsequent award ceremonies included six sponsorship awards from the Victor Rizkallah Foundation (including two awards sponsored by the Lower Saxony-Bremen Construction Industry Foundation and one award sponsored by Wilhelm Wallbrecht GmbH & Co. KG) and two sponsorship awards from the Lower Saxony Metal Foundation. A total of €4,800 in prizes was awarded.


Award winners of the Victor Rizkallah-Stiftung: 

  • Dr. rer. pol. Manh Hung Do
    Faculty of Economics and Management
  • M. Sc. Karen Schäfer
    Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Science
  • Dr. phil. George Kwasi Barimah
    Faculty of Humanities
  • M. Sc. Christian Grannemann
    Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science
  • Dr.-Ing. Ricarda Cappeller
    Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Science
  • Dr.-Ing. Clemens Jonscher
    Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science

Award winners of the Stiftung NiedersachsenMetall:

  • Dr. rer. nat. Maike Ahrens
    Fakultät für Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • M. Sc. Janek Mahlstedt
    Fakulty of Mechanical Engineering

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