The Loschmidt Prize is awarded annually by the Austrian Chemical Physics Society CPG for an outstanding PhD thesis in chemistry and physics. 2023 Cornelia Isabella Angela von Baeckmann and Philipp Honegger, two highly talented researchers, received the award for their outstanding work.
- Dr. Cornelia Isabella Angela von Baeckmann, MSc. BSc.
Titel of PhD Thesis: „Designed Synthesis of Bioconjugates Based on Hybrid Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles”
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Freddy Kleitz, University of Vienna, Department of Functional Materials and Catalysis
Dr. Cornelia von Baeckmann received the Loschmidt-Prize for her PhD thesis entitled: “Designed Synthesis of Bioconjugates Based on Hybrid Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles”.
Under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Freddy Kleitz at the Department of Functional Materials and Catalysis at the University of Vienna her research not only attracted the attention of the jury, but also received an award from the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation and the Bank Austria Foundation. The young scientist is currently an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona and will return to Vienna this year. Her lecture at the Austrian Chemical Physics Society CPG focussed on her scientific career highlighting her outstanding dissertation.
- Dr. Philipp Honegger, BSc MSc
Title of PhD thesis: "Computational Spectroscopy of Reverse Micelles"
Supervisor: emer. Prof. Dr. Othmar Steinhauser, University of Vienna, Department of Computational Biological Chemistry
Dr. Philipp Honegger was awarded for his PhD thesis entitled: "Computational Spectroscopy of Reverse Micelles".
His work was carried out under the joint supervision of emer. Prof. Dr. Othmar Steinhauser and Christian Schröder at the Department of Computational Biological Chemistry at the University of Vienna. After completing his dissertation, he continued his research at the Institute for Systems Biology at the Harvard Medical School.
The following project focussed on self-replicating molecules, "Identification and design of autocatalytic molecules", and was awarded with an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship. Dr. Honegger currently lives in Boston, where he is working on the theoretical basis for chemical mechanisms of abiogenesis.
