Best "Universe" doctoral theses 2017 are set

Thomas Siegert (MPE) and Claudius Krause (LMU) received the Universe PhD Award 2017 of the Cluster of Excellence Universe for their outstanding dissertations. The award ceremony took place on Thursday, 18 January 2018.

The jury’s decision:

• In the category "Experiment", the Excellence Cluster Universe honors Dr. Thomas Siegert (MPE) for his excellent dissertation "Positron-Annihilation Spectroscopy throughout the Milky Way" with the Universe PhD Award 2017.
  
  
• Dr. Claudius Krause receives the Universe PhD Award 2017 in the category "Theory" for his outstanding dissertation "Higgs Effective Field Theories - Systematics and Applications". Claudius Krause received his doctorate from the LMU and is now doing research at the Instituto de Física Corpuscular at the University of Valencia in Spain.

The award ceremony took place on Thursday, 18 January from 11:00 to 12:30 at the MPE Garching in the seminar room UG.

The Program covered:
11:00 am: Laudatory speech for the "Experiment" prize for Dr. Thomas Siegert (Prof. Dr. Joachim Trümper, MPE)

11:15 am: Pricewinner presentation by Dr. Thomas Siegert:"Positron-Annihilation Spectroscopy throughout the Milky Way"

11:45 am: Laudatory speech for the "Theory" prize for Dr. Claudius Krause (Prof. Dr. Andrzej Buras, TUM)

12:00 pm: Prizewinner presentation by Dr. Claudius Krause:"Higgs Effective Field Theories - Systematics and Applications"

Approx. 12:30 pm: end of the event, group photo and drink