Award of the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der HHU
The Award of the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf e. V. is a prize for outstanding professorial dissertations and is intended to be an incentive for special scientific activity.
The award is endowed with € 10,000. It rotates among the faculties.
An examples of the awards:
The GFFU Award for 2020 went to: Adjunct Professor Dr. Matthias Köhne for his outstanding habilitation thesis on "Free and Dynamic Boundary Value Problems for Incompressible Newtonian Flows". In it, he deals with so-called partial differential equations that mathematically describe turbulent flows.
More on the topic (as part of the 2021 annual event) in the GFFU web news from 4 November 2021
For information about the more recent awards, please refer to the German page about this contest.
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winner Adjunct Professor Dr. Sonja Klein, GFFU President Eduard H. Dörrenberg and
2020 prize winner Adjunct Professor Dr. Matthias Koehne; not pictured: 2019 prize
winner Adjunct Professor Dr. Stephan Trinkaus (Photo: GFFU / Dieter Joswig).