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We congratulate our early-career researchers on receiving the prestigious Giersch Awards for their outstanding scientific accomplishments during their doctoral studies!
Giersch-Excellence-Grant 2026:
- Yessica Ou Ya Vogel (TU Darmstadt) – for her outstanding achievements in the phenomenology of thermal dileptons in the few-GeV energy regime.
- Beatriz Franco Faustino Artur (GU Frankfurt) – for her important work on volume fluctuations in heavy-ion collisions at FAIR energies.
- Eva-dhidho Taka (GU Frankfurt) – for her outstanding progress on the integration of pixel-vertex detectors.
- Patryk Semeniuk (GU Frankfurt / AGH) – for his work on the development and implementation of a complex readout system for the CBM STS.
Giersch Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 2026:
- Dario Alberto Ramirez Zaldivar – for his exceptional and pioneering contributions to the CBM experiment, providing the first comprehensive validation of the Silicon Tracking System (STS) performance using real experimental data.
Heartfelt congratulations to all the awardees and their proud supervisors!

