2018: Dr.-Ing. René Rietz

2017: Dr.-Ing. Lukasz Lopacinski

2016: Dr.-Ing. Bert Kaiser

2015: Dr. rer. nat. Martin Schwarick

2014: Dr. rer. nat. Antje Mugler and Dr rer. nat. Matthias Herrmann Richter

2013: Dr. rer. nat. Martin Strehler

2012: Dr. phil. Jakob Meier

2011: Dr. rer. nat. Valeriya Lykina

2009: Dr. rer. nat. Martin Fahr

2003: Dr. rer. nat. Elena-Roxana Racec and Dr rer. nat. Paul Racec

2000: Dr. rer. nat. Alexandros Yfantis

2024 (3rd place): Dr. rer. nat. Jon Schlipf, Dissertation: Enhancement of Group-IV Optoelectronic Sensing Devices through Materials Engineering and Nanostructuring, Supervisor: Prof. Fischer, LS Experimental Physics and Functional Materials (nomination).

2019 (2nd place): Dr.-Ing. Jana Traue, Dissertation: Fine-grained Transactions for NVRAM, Supervisor: Prof. Nolte, LS Distributed Systems / Operating Systems

2017: Dr.-Ing. Sara Obergassel, Dissertation: Design and Analysis of lntegrated CMOS High-Voltage Drivers in Low-Voltage Technologies, Supervisor: Prof. Killat, LS Microelectronics

2016: Dr. rer. nat. Martijn Baartse, Dissertation: The PCP Theorem in Real Number Complexity Theory Display-Strategy, Supervisor: Prof. Meer, LS Theoretical Computer Science

2015: Dr. rer. nat. Igor Marfin, Dissertation: Search for additional Higgs bosons with multi b-quark final states at LHC - Suche nach weiteren Higgs Bosonen in Endzuständen mit mehreren b-Quarks am LHC, Supervisor: Honorary Prof. Lohmann

2014: Dr. rer. nat. Olga Varlamova, Dissertation: Self-organised formation of periodic surface structures after femtosecond laser-induced instability, Supervisor: Prof. Reif, LS Experimental Physics II / Materials Science

2013: Dr. rer. nat. Antje Mugler, Dissertation: Generalised polynomial chaos for solving stationary diffusion problems with random coefficients, Supervisor: Prof. Wunderlich, LS Economathematics

2012: Dr. rer. nat. Martin Strehler, Dissertation: Signalised Flows - Optimisation of Traffic Signals and Signposts and Resulting Network Flow Problems, Supervisor: Prof. Köhler, LS Discrete Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, Computer Science Principles

2011: Dr. phil. Jakob Meier, Dissertation: Synthetic Stuff - Philosophy of Technology according to Martin Heidegger, Supervisor: Prof. Kornwachs, LS Philosophy of Technology, Faculty 1

2007: Dr. rer. nat. Florenta Adriana Costache, Dissertation: Dynamics of ultrashort laser pulse interaction with solids at the origin of nanoscale surface modification, Supervisor: Prof. Dr rer. nat. habil. Jürgen Reif, Chair of Experimental Physics II / Materials Science.

2005: PD Dr.rer.nat.habil. Rainer Schmid (for his habilitation thesis)

2003: Dr.rer.nat. R. Deiterding, dissertation: Parallel Adaptive Simulation of Multi-dimensional Detonation Structures

2002: Dr.rer.nat. Ch. Dreyer, Dissertation: New Polycyanurate-based Waveguide Materials

2001: Dr.rer.nat. F. Müller, Dissertation: On the continuation of solutions of elliptic differential equations in two variables

1999: Dr.rer.nat. G. Appel, Dissertation: Investigations on the mesoscopic and electronic structure of polypyrrole tosylate and polypyrrole copper phthalocyanine sulphonate

2023:

M. Sc. Annika Jöster

Master's thesis: Variational formulation of importance sampling and its connection to stochastic optimal control with a random time horizon
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Hartmann, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Ralf Wunderlich

2022:

M.Sc. Franz Theo Schön:

Master's thesis: Instabilities and pattern formation in visco-elastic fluids
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Michael Bestehorn

2021:

M.Sc. Jonas Marko:

Master's thesis: Optimal control problems with total variation
Study programme: Applied Mathematics
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gerd Wachsmuth

2020:

M.Sc. Marvin Kahra :

Master's thesis: Maximum principles for harmonic mappings in Riemannian manifolds
Study programme: Applied Mathematics
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Friedrich Sauvigny

2019:

M.Sc. Zuzana Gabonayová
Master's thesis: Resource Management for Soft Real-Time Stream Processing on Many-Core Systems
Study programme: Computer Science (university profile)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Nolte, Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Büchner

2018

M.Sc. Katharina Noatschk

Master's thesis: Defect-induced surface reconstruction of Germanium
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. G. Seibold

2017

M.Sc. Robert Scheffler

Master's thesis: A graph-theoretical approach for shape from shading algorithms and complexity for distance-based orientations of graphs
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E. Köhler

2016:

M.Sc. Torsten Ziemann

Master's thesis: A maximum principle for a class of optimal control tasks over an infinite time horizon with vectorial states and controls
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Pickenhain

2015:

M.Sc. Andreas Künnemann

Master's thesis: Solvability of boundary value problems using complex integral equations
Supervisor: Prof. Dr Friedrich Sauvigny

2014:

M.Sc. Sebastian Uhlig
Master's thesis: Self-Organised Surface Structures with Ultrafast White-Light Supercontinuum
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. Reif

2013:

M.Sc. Bianca Böckelmann
Master's thesis: Investigation of data mining algorithms for the indirect
determination of private attributes taking into account
graph-based structures
Supervisors: Prof. Dr Schmitt (LS DBIS), Prof. Dr Langendörfer (LS Security in Pervasive Networks)

2012:

M.Sc.Jana Traue
Master thesis: An Event-Driven Middleware for Many-Core Architectures
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. Nolte (LS Distributed Systems / Operating Systems)

2011:

M.Sc. Matthias Noack
Master's thesis: A Distributed OpenCL Platform
for Cluster Architectures
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. Nolte (LS Distributed Systems / Operating Systems)

2010:

Dipl.-Mathematiker Stefan Erfurth
Diploma thesis: Myopic equilibrium strategies in stochastic games with complete information
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H.-U. Küenle (LS Mathematical Modelling)

2009:

Dipl.-Informatiker Martin Junghans
Diploma topic: Visualisation of Hyperedges in Fixed Graph Layout
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. C. Lewerentz (LS Software System Technology)

2008:

Dipl.-Physiker Ernst von Oehlsen
Diploma topic: Renormalisation of transitive electron-photon coupling with strong electronic correlations
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Götz Seibold (JP Physics of Complex Systems)

2007:

Dipl.-Math. Anett Weber
Diploma topic: Generalisation of the Panjer class and simulation of the total loss distribution
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Wolfgang Freudenberg (Department of Probability Theory and Statistics)

2006: Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Peter

Diploma topic: Evaluation of Design Alternatives for Flexible Elliptic Curve Hardware Accelerators
Supervisor: Visiting Professor Dr Peter Langendörfer

2005:

Dipl.-Inf. Robert Krauz

Diploma topic: Integration of a key management in the video conferencing system BRAVIS
Supervisor: Prof. König

2004:

Dipl.-Math. J. Haink

Diploma topic: Hyperbolic conservation laws and traffic flow problems - investigation of weak solutions, formation of shock waves, existence and uniqueness of the solution, numerical experiments
Supervisor: Prof. Fröhner

2003:

Physics graduate M. Ratzke

Supervisor: Prof. Reif

2002:

Graduate physicist Mihaela Enculescu

Diploma topic: Self-organised structure formation in non-locally interacting neuronal fields
Supervisor: Prof. Bestehorn

2000:

Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Jurk

Diploma topic: The Active Consistent Specialisations Approach for Consistency Enforcement
Supervisor: Prof. Thalhaim

1998:

Dipl.-Inf. Dirk Beyer

1997:

Jan Fiedler

2023:

B. Sc. Florian Krowiorz
Bachelor thesis: The algorithmic complexity of recognising generalised search trees
Supervisors: Dr. Robert Scheffler, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Ekkerhard Köhler

2022:

B. Sc. Nicolas Borchard
Bachelor's thesis: Second-order optimality conditions for sparsity objective functionals using generalised second derivatives
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gerd Wachsmuth

2021:

B. Sc. Max Bergmann
Bachelor thesis: A Machine Learning Approach For Churn Prediction Within The Social Network Yodel
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Hohlfeld

2020:

B. Sc. Annika Jöster
Bachelor's thesis: Potential and Spectral Theory of Reversible, Metastable Markov Chains
Supervisor: Prof. Dr rer. nat. Carsten Hartmann

2019:

B.Sc. Fabienne Ratajczak

Bachelor's thesis: Combinatorial analysis and solution algorithms for the game Icosoku
Supervisors: Dr rer. nat. Martin Strehler, Prof. Dr rer. nat. habil. Ekkehard Köhler

2018:

B. Sc. Annika Jöster
Bachelor's thesis: Segmentation of retinal blood vessels with Laplace pyramids
Supervisors: Prof. Dr M. Breuß and Prof. Dr M. Weigert

2016:

B. Sc. Denis Kurkov
Bachelor thesis: Development and testing of a stereoscopic multi-user display strategy
Supervisor: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Höpfner

B. Sc. Petra Kuchárová
Bachelor's thesis: Broken derivatives and their application in calculus of variations
Supervisor: Prof. Pickenhain

2014:

B. Sc. Robert Scheffler
Bachelor Thesis: Optimal Coordination of Traffic Signals --- Lower Bounds for a Modified Multi-Commodity Min-Cost Flow ProblemOptimal Control of a Volterra Integral Equation
Supervisor: Prof. Köhler

2013:

B. Sc. Torsten Ziemann
Bachelor Thesis: Optimal Control of a Volterra Integral Equation
Supervisors: Dr Lykina and Prof. Pickenhain

2012:

B. Sc. Stanley Schade
Bachelor Thesis: Oriented Flows - Structure and Algorithms
Supervisor: Prof. Köhler

2011:

B. Sc. Sebastian Koall
Bachelor Thesis: Dualisation of Graphical User Interfaces: Porting a GUI from Desktop to Smartphone
Supervisor: Prof. König

2010:

B. Sc. Claudius Krause
Bachelor thesis: The impact of different Monte Carlo Models on the
Cross Section Measurement of Top-Pair Production at 7 TeV
Proton-Proton Collisions
Supervisor: Honorary Prof. Dr Lohmann (DESY, Zeuthen)

Best Bachelor thesis of the BTU (until 2010):

2010: Claudius Krause, B.Sc., Faculty 1

2009:Mrs Jana Traue,B.Sc., Faculty 1, Bachelor's thesis in Information and Media Technology on the topic ofIntegrated metamodel and model editor

2008: Mrs Franka Schuster, B.Sc., Faculty 1

Dr Michael Stolz (Micro and Nano Systems group) receives the 2024 Dissertation Award of the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin. The title of his dissertation is "Determination and assessment of the reliability of lateral electrostatic nanoactuators and their influence on future applications".

Prof. Dr Ivan Ndip receives the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Society (IMAPS) Outstanding Educator Award 2024.

M. Sc. Paul Oleynik (Department of Experimental Physics and Functional Materials) receives the 2024 Best Paper Award at BTU in the Young Researcher category for the article: Paul Oleynik, Fritz Berkmann, Sebastian Reiter, Jon Schlipf, Markus Ratzke, Yuji Yamamoto, Inga Anita Fischer: "Strong Optical Coupling of Lattice Resonances in a Top-down Fabricated Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Al/Si/Ge Metasurface" published in Nano Letters (2024), 24(10).

Prof. Dr. Götz Seibold (Computational Physics Group) receives the 2024 Best Paper Award at BTU in the Senior Researcher category for the article: Götz Seibold, Riccardo Arpaia, Ying Ying Peng, Roberto Fumagalli, Lucio Braicovich, Carlo Di Castro, Marco Grilli, Giacomo Claudio Ghiringhelli, Sergio Caprara: "Strange metal behaviour from charge density fluctuations in cuprates" published in Communications Physics (2021), 4(7).

Dr.-Ing. Wael Alsabbagh and Prof. Dr. Peter Langendörfer (Wireless Systems Group) receive the 2024 IEEE Award for Outstanding Publication for their article "Security of Programmable Logic Controllers and Related Systems: Today and Tomorrow", IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronis Society (2023) vol. 4, pp. 659-693.

Petros Beleniotis received the Best Student Paper Award for his paper "A Computational Modeling Method for Performance Optimization of GaN HEMT" in collaboration with Christos Zervos and Matthias Rudolph at the WOCSDICE-EXMATEC 2024 conference in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Franka Schuster (Chair of Cyber Security) received the Werner Boie Prize from the University of Technology Dresden in 2020 for her work on methods for self-learning anomaly detection and Cyber Security measurement in energy supply networks.

Dr Marcelo Brandalero conducts research at the Chair of Computer Engineering to improve the energy efficiency of computers. He received the prize for the best dissertation in Brazil in 2020.

Student Nabil Abo Nasser from Syria receives the DAAD Prize for outstanding academic achievements and special commitment at the beginning of the 2020 winter semester.

Cyber security student Zineb Alaoui Selsouli from Morocco receives the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) prize for outstanding academic performances and great social commitment

The following students were honoured with a special award from the faculty for outstanding student work:

Bachelor of Science Fabian Mildner (2022, Computer Science)
Bachelor thesis: Bridging direct connection losses in drone swarms through dynamic multi-hop routing
Supervisor: Prof. Nolte

Master of Science Lukas Patz (2021, Informatk)
Master thesis: Automatic action selection supported by reinforcement learning and semantic attention
Supervisor: Prof. Cunningham

Bachelor of Science Jingyao Huang (2021, Economathematics)
Bachelor's thesis: Optimal management of wind energy with storage on the day-ahead market
Supervisor: Prof. Wunderlich

Master of Science Philipp Gypser (2016, Information and Media Technology)
Master's thesis: Self-Stabilising Radio Duty Cycling in Embedded Wireless Networks
Supervisor: Prof. Nolte

Master of Science Moritz Hagendorf (2016, Process Technology - Process and Plant Technology)
Master's thesis: Heterocatalytic synthesis of methanol from_CO2 and _H2 on _{ZrO2-supported} Cu/ZnO catalysts
Supervisor: Prof. Schmeißer

Master of Science Estuardo Alpírez Bock (2015, Information and Media Technology)
Master's thesis: SCA Resistant Implementation of the Montgomery kP-Algorithm
Supervisors: Prof. Langendörfer and Prof. Vierhaus

Bachelor of Science Zuzana Gabonayová (2015, Computer Science)
Bachelor's thesis: Modelling and analysis of trace events in concurrent
distributed systems
Supervisor: Prof. Nolte

Bachelor of Arts Julian Terlaak (2015, Culture and Technology)
Bachelor's thesis: Who uses Bitcoin? A social anthropological study of the Bitcoin community
Supervisor: Prof. Weber

Master of Science Imke Höfers (2014, Applied Mathematics)
Master's thesis: Portfolio optimisation under dynamic risk constraints
Supervisor: Prof. Wunderlich

Master of Science Christian Schwan (2014, Applied Mathematics)
Master's thesis: A contribution to the energy-optimised control of a hybrid vehicle
Supervisor: Prof. Pickenhain

Dipl.-Informatiker Stefan Scharoba (2014,Computer Science)
Diploma thesis: Evaluation of a self-testing and self-repairing VLIW - based processor system
Supervisor: Prof. Vierhaus

Masterof Arts Ulrike Scorna(2014, Culture and Technology)
Master's thesis: Service robots in geriatric care
Supervisor: Prof. Weber

Bachelor of Science Robert Noack (2014, Computer Science)
Bachelor's thesis: Walle - a virtual test environment for the realistic simulation of users within a Moversight-based, mobile, collaborative application
Supervisor: Prof. König

Masterof Arts Anna F. Linke (2013, Culture and Technology)
Master's thesis: Autonomy in technical assistance systems - Trade-off between privacy, independence and security
Supervisor: Prof. Weber

Master of Science Stefan Nürnberger (2013, Computer Science)
Master's thesis: A Generic Framework for Parallel ODT Codes
Supervisor: Prof. Nolte

Master of Science Angie Burtchen and Master of Science Martin Bähr (2013, Applied Mathematics)
Master's thesis: Pseudospectral methods for solving control problems with an infinite time horizon
Supervisors: Prof. Pickenhain, Dr. Tauchnitz

Bachelor of Science Philipp Engel (2013, IMT)
Bachelor's thesis: Development of a Linux file system for non-volatile memory
Supervisors: M.Sc. Jana Traue, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Nolte

Masterof Arts Björn Heinisch (2012, Culture and Technology)
Master's thesis: Implementation of fusion energy in the German electricity supply 2050
Supervisor: Prof. Weber

Master of Science Sebastian Franke (2011)
Master's thesis: Characterisation of plasma pre-treated indium tin oxide
and its influence on organic light-emitting diodes
Supervisors: Prof. Schmeißer, Dr. Schenk (Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS)

Bachelor of Science Andreas Ullmann (2010)
Bachelor thesis: How fair are elections -- network flow algorithms for scaling matrices
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. E. Köhler

Bachelor of Science Grit Schneider (2010)
Bachelor thesis: Synchronisation of UML sequence and activity diagrams
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Hartmut König

Diploma thesis Thomas König (2010)
Diploma thesis: Interactive proof systems in various calculation models
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Klaus Meer

Master of Science Markus Ulbricht (2010)
Master thesis: A diagnostic hybrid test procedure for a VLIW processor
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. T. Vierhaus

Master of Science Anja Schieferdecker (2010)
Master's thesis: Influence of the base material on the efficiency of multicrystalline silicon solar cells
Supervisor: Honorary professor Dr. Richter (IHP)

Dipl.-Informatiker Randolf Rotta (2008)

Diploma thesis: A Multi-Level Algorithm for Modularity Graph Clustering

Supervisor: Prof. Lewerentz

Graduate mathematician Radka Pancheva ( 2008)

Diploma thesis: Statistical methods applied to operational and
ichtliche parameter estimates

Supervisor: Prof. Küenle

Graduate mathematician Claudia Werner (2007)

Diploma thesis: The Dirichlet problem for the minimum surface equation in n dimensions

Supervisor: Prof. Sauvigny

Diploma Physics Marc Hänel (2007)

Diploma thesis: Construction of a GRENOUILLE system to investigate the pulse shapes of the first diffracted orders on an ultrafast transient lattice in dielectrics

Supervisor: Prof. Reif, PD Dr. Schmid

Computer Science graduate Mathias Krause (2007)

Diploma thesis: Lightweight address spaces for embedded systems -
an object-orientated framework for managing address spaces
in embedded systems

Supervisor: Prof. Nolte

Dipl.-Physics Martin Fahr (2005)

Diploma thesis: Optical frequency tripling on a transient refractive index grating

Supervisor: Prof. Reif

Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Rakel (2005)

Diploma thesis: Media distribution in the BRAVIS video conferencing system

Supervisor: Prof. König

Dipl.-Inf. Matthias Müller and Dipl.-Inf. Mario Schölzel (2001)

Diploma thesis: Methods and tools for the development of efficient programmes for irregular process architectures

Supervisor: Prof. Bachmann