Johanna Piepjohn receives Budde Award 2024
- Budde Award 2024 for Johanna Piepjohn's master's thesis
- The Budde Award is awarded annually for outstanding achievements in engineering-related thesis
Johanna Piepjohn, member of the Astrobiology group, Radiation Biology department, was awarded the Budde Award 2024 for her master's thesis titled "Horizontal Gene Transfer in Space - Preparation of the ISS Experiment Bacterial Conjugation."The Budde Award is awarded annually to graduates of the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen for outstanding achievements in their engineering-related thesis.
The thesis was written as part of a German-Belgian cooperation project, led by Rob van Houdt (SCK CEN) as Principal Investigator and Petra Rettberg (DLR) as Co-Investigator. The fluorescence microscope (FLUMIAS) used for the project is being developed by the German Space Agency at DLR.
The €5000 prize was established by the Budde Foundation, founded by Mr. Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Budde and his wife Ursula Budde. The foundation supports science, research, and vocational education.