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The winners of the “Forum Junge Spitzenforschung” 2025 have been announced!

Forum Junge Spitzenforschung 2025

Shaping the Future: The Winners of the “Forum Junge Spitzenforschung” 2025 Have Been Announced!
Yesterday, the festive closing event of the Forum Junge Spitzenforschung competition took place within the alliance of Berlin’s universities—Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin—organized by the Stiftung Industrieforschung and Humboldt-Innovation. This year’s focus was on the topic of “Water & Water Management.”
 

A total of six teams were honored by an expert jury for their innovative and practice-oriented application ideas. The prize money of 42,000 EUR supports the further development of their research projects.
The following projects were awarded:

1st Place – 12,000 EUR
“Bio-Adsorber Beads for Water Purification”
Dr. Alejandro José Lorente Sanchez, Dr. Olaf Wagner, Ana Zidar
Freie Universität Berlin
 

2nd Place – 10,000 EUR
“DeepANN-Hydro3D”
Abdelrahman Ahmed Ali Abdelrahman
Technische Universität Berlin
 

3rd Place – 8,000 EUR
“iOLE – Intelligent Online Leak Detection”
Dr. Ella Steins, Nikolai-Iraj Sanamrad
Technische Universität Berlin
 

4th Places – 4,000 EUR each:
“CompactWater”
Dr. Christian E. Halbig
Freie Universität Berlin
 

“High-Performance Atmospheric Water Harvester (HYVEST)”
Dr. Gustav Graeber, Maria Geidel
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
 

“Ecopotfilter – Modular Biopolymer-Based Water Filtration for Heavy Metal Ion Removal”
Dr. Mohammad Fardin Gholami, Dr. Siamak Gholami
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 

Congratulations to all the winners!
A big thank-you goes to the Stiftung Industrieforschung, the jury (Dr. Lisa Broß, Dr. Pascale Rouault, Christian Doye, Ulf Leonhard, Johannes Altmann), our cooperation partners, and all panelists for their valuable contributions!

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