Faculty prizes and faculty teaching prizes 2025
In the presence of Vice-Rector Jeanette Walde (Director of Teaching and Students), outstanding dissertations and a Master's thesis (completed in STY 2023/24) from our faculty were honoured at a ceremony in the Archaeological Museum on 13 June 2025. These are:
- Ariana Moleenar for her dissertation "Natural Seismographs: A Stratigraphic Study on the Effects of Earthquakes on Subaqueous Surface Sediments".
- Bernhard Grüner for his dissertation "Lifestyle (Im)Mobilities Across Alpine Space and Society. Interactions of Lifestyle Movers and Lifestyle Farmers with the Cultural Landscape of the European Eastern Alps".
- Stephanie Benischke for her Master's thesis "Reconstructing Holocene Lake Level Changes at Lago Llanquihue (South-Central Chile) based on field mapping, seismic-stratigraphic analysis and lacustrine sediment core analysis".
For the first time this year, the teaching prizes for special commitment in or for teaching, which were initiated by Vice-Rector Bernhard Fügenschuh, were also awarded. General staff were also eligible for this award. The award winners were nominated by the three student representatives, who had developed a multi-stage process and coordinated closely with each other. The following were honoured:
Ivana Stiperski (Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences) for "her tireless commitment, her enthusiasm for one of the most complex and least understood phenomena in classical physics, but also her always very approachable and open-minded way of dealing with her students" (excerpt from the laudatory speech by the Atmospheric Sciences student representatives).
Klaus Förster (Department of Geography), who "as coordinator of curriculum planning [...] juggles with timetables, room availability, preference systems and the often contradictory wishes of lecturers and students. He achieves one thing: fairness. He listens, mediates, organises, and does so in such a way that in the end it suits everyone as much as possible" (excerpt from the laudation of the StV Geography).
Clifford Patten (Department of Mineralogy and Petrography) for "your tireless work, your openness, your clear didactics and your genuine commitment to teaching [...]. For many, you are a shining example of what good teaching at a university can look like" (excerpt from the laudatory speech by the Earth Science student representatives).
Congratulations!
21.6.2025