With his highly regarded research on sustainable battery storage systems, Professor Maximilian Fichtner, Director of the Helmholtz Institute in Ulm, has achieved several trailblazing breakthroughs – and he has contributed a great deal to the expansion and visibility of the strategic research field of energy conversion and storage at Ulm University. The chemist also succeeds in making these topics and activities visible to the public and communicating them in an understandable way. On Monday, 22 July, Fichtner received the Ulm Science Prize for his work.
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She studied in Sfax, Tunisia, received her clinical training in Munich and is now a professor of molecular medicine and pathology at the German University in Cairo: Nabila Hamdi is this year's recipient of the Hans Kupczyk Visiting Professorship at Ulm University. Hamdi is conducting research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has been little studied in Egypt to date, and is currently setting up the first ALS registry on the African continent.
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The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has elected Professor Simone Sommer as a member. The head of the Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics is a world-renowned scientist in the field of "Eco Health". The biologist from Ulm University researches the relationship between biodiversity, ecology and health.
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The physicist Professor Martin Plenio has been recognised as a Highly Ranked Scholar by the US database provider ScholarGPS. His numerous publications, the high influence in his field of research and the quality of his scientific contributions have placed the quantum researcher from Ulm University among the top 0.05% of all scientists worldwide in his specialised field.
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The federal Startup Factories competition aims to establish five to ten Startup Factories throughout Germany as central contact points for innovations. From Baden-Württemberg, a newly formed association consisting of leading institutions from science and industry is moving on to the next round of the competition. The alliance, which will be called NXTGN in future, consists of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Stuttgart, the University of Heidelberg, Ulm University, the Hochschule der Medien, Gründermotor GmbH and IPAI (Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence).
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The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts has relaunched the Margarete von Wrangell Junior Professor Programme to provide even better support for young female scientists. Junior and tenure-track female professors can employ a female scientist who has just completed her doctorate for three years in order to make a name for herself in her field of research. Junior Professor Ann-Christin Haag from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy at Ulm University Hospital was selected for this programme.
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