08.11.2012

PIER Helmholtz Graduate School awards first scholarships

The first round of scholarship awards within the new PIER Helmholtz Graduate School is completed. Seven outstanding candidates can look forward to a three-year funding of their doctorate. Hong-Guang Duan, Nele Müller, Özgür Mehmet Sahin, Matthias Schlaffer and Clemens Wieck were awarded a Joachim Herz grant, Alena Wiegandt and Cornelius Gati are supported by a Helmholtz grant. The scholarship holders will conduct their Ph.D. in one of four PIER research fields.

Hong-Guang Duan, Özgür Sahin, Alena Wiegandt, Clemens Wieck, Matthias Schlaffer, Cornelius Gati, Nele Müller (awardees), Stefanie Tepass (coordinator PIER Helmholtz Graduate School), Petra Herz (chair Joachim Herz Foundation), Ilja Bohnet (Helmholtz Association) (from left to right)

A total of 36 young scientists from Germany and abroad had applied for the PIER scholarships. The best 16 of them were invited to present themselves in public lectures in front of a ten-member committee of top-class scientists and to confront the questions of the committee.

“The applications for the first round were brilliant – the choice was very difficult for the reviewers. With these scholarships, the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School can help to make Hamburg a magnet for the world’s best young scientific talents,” says Stefanie Tepaß, coordinator of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School.

The scholarships were presented on 31 October during the Jentschke Lecture by the chairwoman of the Joachim Herz Stiftung, Petra Herz, and the representative of the Helmholtz Association, Ilja Bohnet.

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