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.
For further information about the award: Send e-mail

 

Ceremony for the GFFU Awards for 2019 and 2020 (from left to right): 2019 prize
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).