This year's Dies Academicus will take place on Friday, 14 February. The University's foundation 58 years ago will be celebrated with a ceremony in research building N27 (start: 10:00 a.m.). University President Professor Michael Weber will start with a review of the past year and talk about upcoming plans and challenges. Outstanding teaching staff, researchers and students will then be honoured and the Doctoral and PhD prizes of the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft be awarded.
The cooperation prize for science and business will be awarded twice: The cooperation between the quantum physicists Professor Fedor Jelezko, Head of the Institute of Quantum Optics, and Professor Martin Plenio, Head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, and the Ulm-based company NVision Imaging Technologies will be honoured. Professor Claus Braxmaier from the Institute of Microelectronics is being honoured for his collaboration with Airbus Defence & Space Friedrichshafen and STI from Immenstaad. Doctoral and PhD prizes from the Ulmer Universitätsgesellschaft go to Dr Matthias Domhardt, Dr Tobias Drey, Dr Nensi Ikonomi, Dr Lukas Moritz Niebel, Dr Stefan Reich, Dr Ilai Schwartz, Dr Manuel Seefelder, Dr Carolin Seeling and Dr Ulrich Stifel.
The Ulm University Special Prize for outstanding student commitment goes to the WissenSchaffer. This group of students from the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering aims to inspire school pupils to study STEM subjects, for example with soldering workshops or stratospheric balloons. Professor Walter Karlen, Head of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, receives the University's Teaching Award for his modern teaching concepts and examination methods. The winner of the ExzellenziaUlm research prizes for excellent young female scientists is Junior Professor Ann-Christin Haag, who works at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy in "Trauma Research in the Digital Age" on the development of children and adolescents after potentially traumatic experiences. Julia La Roche is awarded the Harald Rose Prize for her further development of a labelling method for electron microscopy.
The University also awards two new research incubators: The "OptiReg" project aims to optimise tissue regeneration in meniscus injuries in order to improve non-surgical therapies. PD Dr Andreas Seitz, Dr Graciosa Teixeira, Dr Ulrich Simon, Dr Tim Eiseler and Professor Jan Tuckermann are working on this. With "MUST" by Professor Michael Vogt, Professor Jan Beyersmann and Professor Hans A. Kestler, data analysis tools are to be developed that can model complex disease processes and provide reliable, personalised medical predictions.
After the ceremony, there will be a reception in the foyer of the research building. The Dies academicus will also be broadcast live online; the recording can be viewed afterwards on Ulm University's YouTube channel.
Event note:
Dies academicus 2025 of Ulm University
Friday, 14 February
10:00 a.m.
Multimedia room, Research Building N27
Meyerhofstraße/James-Franck-Ring
All interested parties are cordially invited to the Dies academicus!
Further information:
Daniel Strang, Dept. I-1 Marketing, Tel.: 0731 / 50 22123, E-Mail: daniel.strang(at)uni-ulm.de