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Current call for entries for the publication prize runs until January
Well-wisher and award winner: BUW Rector Prof Dr Birgitta Wolff (left) presented Birte Boes with the award at the research network meeting // Photo Michael Mutzberg
Publications make findings accessible to a wider audience: University of Wuppertal has been recognising outstanding publications with the Publication Award since this year. Recommendations and self-applications with the original publication published in calendar year 2024 and a short justification (maximum one page) can be submitted to the Vice-Rector for Research and Digital Affairs via the email address referentinfd[at]uni-wuppertal.de by 15 January 2025.
Award ceremony with research insights
As part of the official award ceremony, this year's prizewinner gave a short presentation on the topic of her submitted publication: Birte Boes is a research assistant at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering in the Computational Applied Mechanics department under Prof Dr Jaan-Willem Simon. In 2023, she published an article in the journal "Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering", which is one of the most renowned journals in the specialist community.
The content of her work is about new, innovative material modelling of paper. Among other things, this is important in order to be able to use paper reliably as a building material in the future. Birte Boes has developed a special mathematical model that not only provides reliable explanations and predictions for paper and cardboard, but can also be applied to other materials with similar properties.
Background to the prize
The publication prize can be awarded to anyone who has published as a scientist at the University of Wuppertal in the previous calendar year. The prize is endowed with 6,000 euros, whereby the prize money can be earmarked for research or the publication of research results. The jury consists of the Carnap Senior Professors, the Vice-Rector for Sustainable Organisational Development and Diversity and the Vice-Rector for Research and Digital Affairs.
"Scientists strive to gain knowledge and to disseminate their research as widely as possible. That means publishing. The University of Wuppertal honours publications that are examples of our outstanding publishing achievements, redefine their respective fields and will leave a strong footprint," explains Prof. Dr Stefan F. Kirsch, Vice-Rector for Research and Digital Affairs and member of the jury.
In the first round of the competition, 42 BUW researchers submitted their publications.
