University Of Bremen Experts Receives Prizes For Exceptional Doctoral Supervision
The mathematician and computer scientist Nicole Megow and the political scientist Kerstin Martens have received the prize for outstanding doctoral supervision from the University of Bremen. The prize money of 2,000 euros each was donated by the alumni association of the University of Bremen.
“At our university there are numerous doctoral supervisors in all departments who take on this task with a lot of commitment and passion. Making this achievement more visible is a central concern of today’s award ceremony,” says Vice President for Internationality, Academic Qualifications and Diversity, Dr. Mandy Boehnke, at the award ceremony in the Campus Space of Sparkasse Bremen. Mandy Boehnke also thanked the Alumni Association of the University of Bremen eV, which donated the prize.
Drive and diversity skills
In the laudatory speech for the award winner from the natural and engineering sciences, Professor Nicole Megow, her former doctoral student Dr. Lukas Nölke: “One of the qualities I particularly admire about Nicole Megow is her zest for action and her infectious enthusiasm for discrete mathematics. Diversity competence – the ability to act appreciatively, appreciatively and without prejudice – is another ability that distinguishes her and that she always exemplifies. It is rare to meet a mentor who is both technically strong and humanly so sensitive and encouraging.” Nicole Megow is a professor for combinatorial optimization and logistics in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen.
“A very good career coach”
Kerstin Martens received the prize in the humanities and social sciences. She has been a junior professor since 2007 and a professor of international relations and world society at the University of Bremen since 2009. She is a board member of the current social science collaborative research center “Global Development Dynamics of Social Policy”. “Kerstin Martens is exceptionally good at teaching her students and staff research organization and research design. In addition, she is a very good career coach. She has a good eye for where our research can be connected and which audience we can best reach with our topics,” says her former doctoral student Dr. Fabian Besche-Truthe.
The prize money of EUR 2,000 each was donated by the Alumni Association of the University of Bremen. It is earmarked and is only available for projects to support doctoral students. “As a rule, prizes are awarded to works that a person has written. It’s different here. Those are honored who create the conditions with their work so that special achievements can arise from individuals. That is exactly the reason why we, as an alumni association, are committed to the award,” said Dr. Tim Nesemann, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the University of Bremen eV