Awards 2020
Smoluchowski Award 2020
„The Smoluchowski Award shall be given to a young researcher who has achieved and published new results in aerosol science …“
Award Committee: G. Kasper, A. Weber, K. Deppert, M. Messing, A. Teleki
Prof. Dr. Georgios A. Sotiriou
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Functional particles & particle-enabled devices based on gas-phase processes for biomedical applications of clinical & toxicological relevance
2006 Diploma - National Technical University of Athens (Applied Physics)
2008 M.Sc. - ETH Zurich (Micro- & Nanosystems)
2011 Dr.Sc. - ETH Zurich (Institute of Process Engineering)
2013 - 18 Harvard School of Public Health Research Fellow / Visiting Scientist
2015 - 16 Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich (Drug Formulation & Delivery)
since 2016 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Dept. of Microbiology, Tumor & Cell Biology
Publications: > 50 + 2 Patent Applications
Citations: ca. 3000
h-index: 27
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Schmauss Award 2020
„The Schmauss Award shall be given to a young researcher who has achieved and published new results in atmospheric aerosol science …“
Award Committee: G. Kasper, A. Weber, T. Hoffmann, A. Kürten, B. Wehner
Asst. Prof. Dr. Claudia Mohr
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Molecular composition and growth of secondary organic aerosols and related new mass-spectrometric techniques
2007 MSc. (Atmospheric Sci.), ETH Zürich and University of Colorado, Boulder
2011 PhD (Atmospheric Sciences), Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zürich
2011 - 14 PostDoc, University of Washington, Seattle
2014 - 17 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
since 2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University
Publications: 67
Citations: ca. 4200 (WoS)
h-index: 34
Dr. Yafang Cheng
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Aerosol chemistry in haze formation, size-dependent phase transitions, and global black carbon inventories
2001 BS, Wuhan University
2007 PhD, Beijing University (Atmospheric Sci.)
2007 - 09 PostDoc, Tropos, Leipzig
2009 - 11 PostDoc, University of Iowa
2011 - 13 “100 Talent” Professor, Beijing University
2013 - 14 Visiting Scientist, MPI for Chemistry, Mainz
2014 - 17 Guest Prof., Hefei University of Science and Technology
Since 2014 Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
Publications: 111 (41 within the last 3 yrs)
Citations: ca. 3000 (WoS)
h-index: 36
GAeF PhD Award 2020
The GAeF PhD Award is new since 2018 and granted to young scientists whose ideas have provided decisive stimulus in their area of aerosol research and who are recognized as outstanding among their peers in their field. The distinction is based on an outstanding doctoral thesis that has been submitted no more than 2 years before the call for nominations. The GAeF PhD Award can be annually awarded to a maximum of two early career scientists.
Award Committee: A. Maisser, C. Asbach, C. Mohr, O. Schmid, B. Wehner
Georgios Kelesidis
ETH Zürich
Morphology and optical properties of flame-made nanoparticles
2013 Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
2015 MSc in Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
awarded with IBM research price for MSc thesis in Computer Modeling and Simulations in Chemistry, Biology and Material Science
2019 PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
awarded with the ETH Medal for outstanding PhD thesis
Best poster award at the EAC 2016 in Tours, France, and at the Material Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in 2019, Boston, USA
9 published publications
6 invited lectures, 20 oral conference contributions and 33 poster presentations
Forbes 30 under 30 Europe List, Science and Healthcare, Class 2020