Archive of the Emerg­ing Tal­ent Award

2025

1st Prize
Mona Sob­hani from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy Cot­tbus–Sen­ften­berg  for her Mas­ter´s the­sis „In­ves­ti­gat­ing the Po­ten­tial of a Hy­brid Quantum-​Classical Ap­proach for Prime Fac­tor­iza­tion“

2nd Prize
Chiara Kohl from Friedrich-​Alexander Uni­ver­sity of Erlangen-​Nuremberg for her Mas­ter´s the­sis „En­twurf einer auf Fre­quen­zvervielfach­ern basieren­den in­te­gri­erten Mil­lime­ter­wellen Sig­nalquelle mit hoher Unterdrückung der hal­ben Aus­gangs­fre­quenz“

2nd Prize
Max­i­m­il­ian Kon­rad Georg Froitzheim from TU Dres­den for his diploma the­sis „Un­ter­suchung eines duo-​binären Lasertreibers Un­ter­suchung eines duo-​binären Lasertreibers“

Pho­tos

2024

1st prize with 500 €
Patrick Eder from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign und Auf­bau eines mod­u­laren, kaskadierten mmWave MIMO-​Radarsystems“

1st prize with 500 €
Niklas Dreyer from Otto von Gu­er­icke Uni­ver­sity Magde­burg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Ko­r­re­la­tion von struk­turellen und op­tis­chen Eigen­schaften einer InGaN/InGaN μLED-​Struktur auf porösem GaN-​Puffer“

3rd prize with 300 €
Har­shan Gowda Malavalli Na­garaju from Pader­born Uni­ver­sity for his mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign and Analy­sis of PAM-4 Bang-​Bang Phase De­tec­tor for High-​speed Half-​rate CDR cir­cuit in 22nm FDSOI“

Pho­tos 2024

2023

1st prize with 500 €
Ste­fan Schönhärl from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „En­twick­lung eines D-​Band Phasen­schiebers für FMCW-​Radar-Anwendungen“

2nd prize with 300 €
Jo­hannes Werk­mann from the Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Land­shut for his bach­e­lor's the­sis „En­twick­lung, Auf­bau und Analyse der Ans­teuerung für eine 3-​Level-Flying-Capacitor-Topologie mit GaN-​FETs“

2nd prize with 300 €
Richard Hege­wald from the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam for his Bach­e­lor's the­sis „Dri­ver Cus­tomiza­tion for Deep Learn­ing Hard­ware Ac­cel­er­a­tion“

The prizes were sup­ported by Deutsche Bank.

Pho­tos 2023

2022

Spe­cial prizes from Deutsche Bank with 300 €
Patrick Langer from Otto von Gu­er­icke Uni­ver­sity Magde­burg for his Mas­ter's the­sis  „Echtzeit­fahige Erken­nung van Freez­ing of Gait bei Parkin­son Pa­tien­ten mith­ilfe FPGA basierter In­ferenz von neu­ronalen Net­zen“

Flo­rian Frankre­iter from the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam for his Bach­e­lor's the­sis „Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Eval­u­a­tion of Se­lec­tive Ra­di­a­tion Hard­en­ing on a Com­plex Mi­cro­con­troller Asic De­sign“

Ab­de­laziz Saad from BTU Cottbus-​Senftenberg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „In­cre­men­tal Code Up­dates as a Basis for Re­turn Ori­ented Pro­gram­ming At­tacks on Resource-​Constrained De­vices“

Spe­cial prize for sus­tain­abil­ity with 300 €
Han­nah Fell­ner from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Un­ter­suchung und Im­ple­men­tierung eines draht­losen Energieübertragungssystems zur Strukturüberwachung von Wind­kraftan­la­gen“

Pho­tos 2022

2021

Spe­cial prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Joel Rauscher from Otto von Gu­er­icke Uni­ver­sity Magde­burg for his Bach­e­lor's the­sis „Computergestützte Moleku­larstrahlepi­taxie eines span­nungsangepassten Mehrschicht­sys­tems“

1st prize with 500 €
Ben­jamin San­drock from the In­sti­tute of Radio Fre­quency En­gi­neer­ing and Elec­tron­ics (IHE) at the Karl­sruhe In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (KIT) for his Bach­e­lor's the­sis „Un­ter­suchung und En­twurf ef­fizien­ter An­pass­net­zw­erke“

1st prize with 500 €
Ben­jamin Förster from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­ter­min­ing Dis­tri­b­u­tions of Se­cu­rity So­lu­tions for Wire­less Sen­sor Net­works based on the Model of a Neigh­bor­hood Watch“

1st prize with 500 €
Matthias Möck from the Karl­sruhe In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (KIT) for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign of a Wide­band VCO above 100 GHz in SiGe BiC­MOS Tech­nol­ogy“

2019

1st prize and spe­cial prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Cedric Cor­ley from the Uni­ver­sity of Kas­sel for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Growth of GaAs/InAs Quan­tum Dots on Sil­i­con sub­strates with Quan­tum Dot dis­lo­ca­tion fil­ters“

Pho­tos 2019

2018

1st prize and prize of Deutsche Bank with 300 €
An­dreas Becker from TU Berlin for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Growth and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of graphene on ger­ma­nium“

1st prize and prize of Deutsche Bank with 300 €
Elis­a­beth Vogel from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Analyse von EM-​Kartographie als Mit­tel zur Bes­tim­mung von Leakage-​Quellen sowie des Ef­fek­tes geeigneter Gegenmaßnahmen“

1st prize and prize of Deutsche Bank with 300 €
Malte E. Frisch from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Im­ple­men­ta­tion of a Phase-​Locked Loop and a Se­ri­al­izer for a JESD In­ter­face“

Spe­cial prize for so­cial rel­e­vance with 300 €
Ali Had­dadi Es­fa­hani from Chem­nitz Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for his mas­ter's the­sis „Point-​of-care-ultrasound: pa­tien­ten­nahe Bildge­bung an Bren­npunk­ten der am­bu­lanten Ver­sorgung“

Pho­tos 2018

2017

1st prize and prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Emily Hof­mann from RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­sity for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of GeSn Tun­nel Diodes and Con­tacts for Novel De­vices“

2nd prize with 400 €
Ju­lian Potschka from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign of an in­te­grated sub­reti­nal im­plant using cel­lu­lar neural net­works“

3rd prize with 300 €
Chan­drasekar Gane­san from the Uni­ver­sity of Pader­born for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Wide­band Millimeter-​Wave VCO With Low Phase Noise Using Tun­able RF MEMS and SiGe BiC­MOS Tech­nol­ogy“

Pho­tos 2017

2016

Each awarded a prize of 200 €
Alexan­der Wolf from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Wildau/ IHP for his Mas­ter's the­sis „THz Plas­mon­ics for Group IV Semi­con­duc­tors – Ap­plied to Biosens­ing“

Daniel Schindler from Karl­sruhe In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Zirku­lar po­lar­isierte on-​Chip An­tenne“

Es­tu­ardo Alpirez Bock from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy/IHP for his Mas­ter's the­sis „SCA Re­sistent Im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Mont­gomery kP-​Algorithm“

Paul Glo­gener from the Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ences for En­gi­neer­ing and Eco­nom­ics for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Sys­tem­inte­gra­tion eines HF-​Impedanzmesschips zum kon­tinuier­lichen Mon­i­tor­ing von Zelldichten“

Pho­tos 2016

2015

1st prize with 500 €
Se­bas­t­ian Taube from the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam/IHP for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Fehler­tol­er­ante Im­ple­men­tierung eines SpaceWire In­ter­faces“

2nd prize with 400 €
Se­bas­t­ian Schweitzer from Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity of Berlin for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Nu­merische Mod­el­lierung op­toelek­tro­n­is­cher Eigen­schaften von Gruppe IV Halbleiter-​Heterostrukturen“

Pho­tos 2015

2014

1st prize and prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Lisa Un­der­berg from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Dort­mund for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Konzep­tion­ierung, Im­ple­men­tierung und Analyse eines zeitkri­tis­chen Steuer­net­zw­erks für den Ein­satz in der Fer­ti­gungsautoma­tion“

2nd prize with 400 €
Marco Dietz from the Uni­ver­sity of Er­lan­gen–Nurem­berg for his Mas­ter's the­sis „En­twurf und Auf­bau eines RF Re­ceiver Fron­tends für einen mono­lithisch in­te­gri­erten vek­to­riellen Net­zw­erk­analysator“

3rd prize with 300 €
Michael Goder­bauer from the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam/Hasso Plat­tner In­sti­tute for his Mas­ter's the­sis „En­twurf und Eval­u­a­tion eines asyn­chro­nen Co­prozes­sors für die Elliptische-​Kurven-Kryptographie“

Pho­tos 2014

2013

1st prize and prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Farabi Ibne Jamal from the Uni­ver­sity of Ulm for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign of Dual-​Band VCO for E-​Band Ap­pli­ca­tions“

2nd prize with 400 €
Jo­hannes Schulze from the TU Dres­den for his Mas­ter's the­sis „En­twurf und Analyse eines Leistungsverstärkers mit Ar­beit­spunk­t­stro­man­pas­sung“

3rd prize with 300 €
Olga Schuck­mann from Osnabrück Uni­ver­sity for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Plas­mamod­i­fizierung von Praseodym-​ und Cerox­id­schichten“

2012

1st prize with 500 €
Jana Traue from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for her Mas­ter's the­sis „An Event-​Driven Mid­dle­ware for Many-​Core Ar­chi­tec­tures“

2nd prize with 400 €
Agata Pocej from Hochschule Furt­wan­gen for her Mas­ter's the­sis „Char­ac­ter­i­za­tion and Mod­el­ling of the Degra­da­tion of SiGe Het­ero­junc­tion Bipo­lar Tran­sis­tors (HBT)“

3rd prize with 300 €
Mar­tin Schleyer from RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­sity for his diploma the­sis „Hi­er­ar­chi­cal Func­tional Ver­i­fi­ca­tion Ap­proaches for a Low Power Blue­tooth RF-​Frontend“

2011

Prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Olaf Krause from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy „En­twick­lung einer draht­losen Authentifizierungs-​ und Up­datekom­po­nente für die De­bugschnittstelle von Mikro­con­trollern“

1st prize with 500 €
David Fritsche from the TU Dres­den „En­twurf und Analyse eines Leistungsverstärkers für LTE für Ver­sorgungss­pan­nun­gen ober­halb der Durch­bruchspan­nung der Tran­si­s­toren“

2nd prize with 400 €
Nicole Todten­berg from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy „En­twick­lung und Um­set­zung von Mech­a­nis­men zur Verbesserung der "Qual­ity of Ex­pe­ri­ence" beim mo­bilen Zu­griff auf Stream­ing ori­en­tierte Internet-​Dienste über zel­lu­lare Netze“

3rd prize with 300 €
Stef­fen Kubotsch: „In­ves­ti­ga­tion of HfO2-​based RRAM-​Structures"

2010

1st prize (spe­cial prize from Deutsche Bank)
Lidia Tar­nawska, Wrocław Uni­ver­sity of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy „GaN epi­taxy on Si sub­strates via en­gi­neered oxide buffers“

2nd prize
Stephan Huck­en­holz from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Mu­nich „Pro­to­type sim­u­la­tion of trans­mit­ter and re­ceiver for UWB com­mu­ni­ca­tion IEEE 802.15.4a“

2nd prize
Jan Wes­sel from Ruhr Uni­ver­sity Bochum „In­te­grated dig­i­tally con­trolled phase­shifter in sil­i­con tech­nol­ogy for mm-​wave beam form­ing ap­pli­ca­tions“

2nd prize
Clemens Helfmeier from the TU Berlin: „En­twick­lung und Op­ti­mierung einer Vorge­hensweise, um mit­tels eines "Fo­cused Ion Beam"- Gerätes auf "Float­ing Gate"- Tech­nolo­gie basierende Permanent-​Speicherzellen vollständig und zerstörungsfrei zu kon­tak­tieren“

2009

1st prize of 500 € (prize from Deutsche Bank)
Oliver Schrape from Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity of Berlin for his diploma the­sis „Eine En­twurf­s­methodik für dig­i­tale SiGe-​ECL-Schaltungen“

2nd prize with 400 €
Peter Ro­den­bach from the Free Uni­ver­sity of Berlin for his diploma the­sis „Sin­gle Crys­talline 100% epi-​Ge Lay­ers on En­gi­neered Oxide Het­ere­ostruc­tures on Si“

3rd prize with 300 €
Robert Wolf from the TU Dres­den for his diploma the­sis „En­twurf und Analyse eines in­te­gri­erten Puls­gen­er­a­tors für die draht­lose Datenkom­mu­nika­tion und Lokalisierung gemäß Ultra-​Wideband-Impuls-Standard (UWB)“

2008

1st prize with 2 x 500 €
David Schöniger from the TU Dres­den for his diploma the­sis „En­twurf und Analyse eines schnellen Transimpedanzverstärkers in SiGe-​HBT-Technologie“

Mar­ion Zes­sack from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for his diploma the­sis „Hard­ware/Soft­ware Co-​Design für einen TCP-​Processor“

2007

1st prize and prize from Deutsche Bank with 500 €
Chris­t­ian Wal­czyk from the Uni­ver­sity of Siegen/IMEC for his Mas­ter's the­sis „Micro-​loading Ef­fects in the Se­lec­tive Epi­tax­ial Growth Process of Boron Doped SiGe in the Source/Drain Areas“

2nd prize with 400 €
Se­bas­t­ian Geisler from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ences Wildau for his diploma the­sis „En­twick­lung einer op­tis­chen Proximity-​Korrektur (OPC) für eine 0,13 μm SiGe:C BiCMOS-​Technologie“

3rd prize with 200 €
Stef­fen Ort­mann from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for his diploma the­sis „En­twick­lung eines Informationsfluss-​Modells für ubiquitäre Sys­teme“

2006

1st prize with 600 €
Mar­cus Ehrig from Hum­boldt Uni­ver­sity of Berlin for his diploma the­sis „En­twurf und Im­ple­men­ta­tion eines LDPC-​Kodierers/Dekodier­ers für ein Gbit-​WLAN“

2nd prize with 400 €
Bernd Schle­icher from the Uni­ver­sity of Ulm for his Mas­ter's the­sis „De­sign of 79 GHz SiGe Low Low Noise and Power Am­pli­fier for Au­to­mo­tive Radar Ap­pli­ca­tions“

2005

1st prize with 600 €
Krzysztof Pi­otrowski from the Uni­ver­sity of Zielona Góra for his diploma the­sis „De­sign and Im­ple­men­ta­tion of an off-​line E-​Cash Scheme“

2nd prize with 400 €
Michael Maser from Bran­den­burg Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy for his diploma the­sis „To­wards Pri­vacy Ne­go­ti­a­tion for In­ter­net Ser­vices: De­sign and Pro­to­typ­ing of Basic Con­cept“