# Highlights

**Source**: https://bfm.cs.tum.de/en/team/highlights
**Parent**: https://bfm.cs.tum.de/en/

## 2026

**Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra** - he got a position as Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India

## 2025

**Dr. Youssef Atoini** - obtained 2 Bioeconomy Innovation Awards

**Dr. Anna Zielniewska** - awarded with the prestigous Liebig Fellowship

**M.Sc. Sophia Lipinsk**i - honored with the “Student Presentation Award” at the 105 th CSJ Annual Meeting in Osaka

**M.Sc. Anna Dachs** - honored with the “Hochschulpreis 2025” of the City of Straubing, the District of Straubing and Sparkasse Niederbayern-Mitte

**Dr. Sara Ferrara** - awarded with the “Fondazione Oronzio e Niccolo De Nora” Prize from the Societá Chimica Italiana for her PhD work

**Dr. Luca Maria Cavinato** - Finalist of the Premio Levi 2024 for work published in Advanced Functional Materials 2024, 34, 2404433 in collaboration with the University Waseda

## 2024

**M.Sc. Sara Ferrara** – Silver Medal for PhD, EuChemS Chemistry Congress

**M.Sc. Sara Ferrara** – Young Researcher Award,  E-MRS Spring Meeting 2024

**Dr. Juan-Pablo Fuenzalida Werner** - After 4 years at the chair he got a position as independent Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the private catholic University of Navarra

**Dr. Anna Zieleniewska** – Stipend from Christine Nüsslein-Vollhard-Foundation

**Dr. Anna Zieleniewska** – selected to the European Talent Academy – Visionary Program organized by Technical University of Munich in collaboration with Imperial College London and Politecnico di Milano.

**Dr. Anna Zieleniewska** – Bioeconomic Innovation Award – Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability

**Dr. Mattia Nieddu** – Bioeconomic Innovation Award – Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability

**Dr. Santosh Kumar Behera** - after 1,5 years at the chair he got a position as Assistant Professor in a Governement Model Degree Sollege in Nayagarh, India

## 2023

**M.Sc. Sara Ferrara** – Winner first price PhD Competition, E-MRS Fall Meeting 2023

**M.Sc. Luca Maria Cavinato** – Young Researcher Award from Symposium K, E-MRS Fall Meeting 2023

**M.Sc. Sara Ferrara** – Young Researcher Award from Symposium N, E-MRS Fall Meeting 2023

**Dr. Julio Fernandez-Cestau** – After a long period with us as MSCA post-doc and sub-group leader, he was awarded with the Ramon y Cajal Fellowship to become group leader in a tenure-track professorship path at the University of La Rioja.

**Dr. Mattia Nieddu** – Bioeconomy Innovation Award, Technical University of Munich – Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability

**Dr. Jesús Agustín Banda Vázquez** – Bioeconomy Innovation Award, Technical University of Munich – Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability

## 2022

**Dr. Yanyan Duan** – After the excellent Yanyan’s PhD, she was appointed as tenured Associate Professor at Nanjing University in 2022. She will combine it with a Humboldt post-doc fellowship at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.

**M.Sc. Luca Maria Cavinato** – Young Researcher Award from Symposium D1, E-MRS Spring Meeting 2022

**M.Sc. Luca Maria Cavinato** – Finalist of the European Young Chemist Award EuChemMS

**M.Sc. Luca Maria Cavinato** - RSC Horizon Prize of the Dalton Division 2022

**M.Sc. Marco Hasler** – Master Thesis Award called ‘Wissenschaftspreis Straubing 2022’

**Dr. Julio Fernandez-Cestau** – RSC Horizon Prize of the Dalton Division 2022

## 2021

**Dr. Elisa Fresta** – After her PhD, she got 3 post-doc grants: Juan de la Cierva Fellowship at IMDEA Nanoscience, Severo Ochoa post-doc fellowship at ICFO, Humboldt Fellowship at University of Heidelberg. She decided to become a Humboldt post-doc fellow since 2021.

**M.Sc. Sara Ferrara** – Best Presentation Award at E-MRS Spring Meeting 2021.

## 2020

**Dr. Verónica Fernández-Luna** – After her great PhD, she became leader of the department digital transformation at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

**Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández** – Short before we moved to TUM, he became Associated Professor at U. Carlos III.

**Dr. Elisa Fresta** – Her PhD led to >25 papers and 3 awards: Best PhD Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Best PhD of Madrid Region, Best PhD in Nanomaterials by RSQE.

## 2019

**Dr. Maria Bidikoudi** – After a successful post-doc period, she became permanent member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of the Peloponnese.

## 2018

**Dr. Juan Pedro Fernández** – After joining our group, Dr. Fenández was appointed as tenured researcher at IMDEA Materials.