Abetz-Sponsorship Award | Bernadotte Award | Award of the City of Freising | E.ON Future Award | Hans-Karl-Göttling Award | Award of the Johannes-B.-Ortner-Stiftung | SRM Award | Thurn und Taxis Award | VDE/VDI Award
Award of the City of Freising
Bottom right Leonie Wagner
This award has already several times been conferred to students, who prepared their final thesis at the Institute of Forest Management with Prof. Knoke. The laureates for the awarded theses are in detail:
Leonie Wagner | 2021 | "Multitemporal tree species classification in high-resolution RGB-imagery" |
Susanne Neuner | 2010 | "Financial optimization for deriving the general target of growing stock - an application of portfolio theory using the example of the Count Arco-Zinneberg's Forestry Administration" |
Stefanie Ederer | 2007 | "Appraisal of different utilisation strategies for the mountain forest on the basis of the example of the Gerhardstein" |
Andreas Roth | 2003 | "The Line-Intersect-Sample: An efficient method for surveying recumbent dead wood" |
the laureates 2010 - third from the right Susanne Neuner
Hans-Karl-Göttling Award
second from left Heidi Wallner (photo: C. Josten)
The Hans-Karl-Göttling foundation has annually awarded special practice oriented achievements in applied forest research since 1988.
Heidi Wallner | 2018 | Ready-to-use establishment of forest remote sensing |
SRM Award of the Audi Environmental Foundation
In the middle: Daniela Angelova
The Audi Envionmental Foundation supports outstanding achievements in the area of sustainable resource management with the Audi SRM Award. Graduates of the Master's program Sustainable Resource Management, who contribute with their master's thesis to sustainable interactions between humans, nature and technology, are awarded with this prize. The SRM award was given 2011 for the first time.
Daniela Angelova | 2017 | "Spatio-temporal analysis of the urban growth patterns and assessment of their drivers in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia" |
Abetz-Sponsorship Award
Second from the right Fabian Härtl
This is the Sponsorship-Award of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. It was repeatedly awarded to students who prepared their final thesis at the Institute of Forest Management with Prof. Knoke. The laureates for the awarded theses are detailed below:
PhD. Thesis Award
Fabian Härtl | 2017 | "Der Einfluss des Holzpreises auf die Konkurrenz zwischen stofflicher und thermischer Holzverwertung – Ein forstbetrieblicher Planungsansatz unter Berücksichtigung von Risikoaspekten" |
BSc., MSc., Diploma Thesis Award
Susanne Neuner | 2011 | "Finanzielle Optimierung zur Ableitung des allgemeinen Bestockungszieles - eine Anwendung der Portfoliotheorie am Beispiel der Gräflichen Arco-Zinneberg'schen Forstverwaltung" |
Emmanuel Steinbeis | 2009 | "Ecosystem Portfolio Optimisation" |
Stefanie Ederer | 2007 | "Appraisal of different utilisation strategies for the mountain forest on the basis of the example of the Gerhardstein" |
Patrick Hildebrandt, Daniel Klein | 2005 | "Basic principles of a utilisation concept for a secondary forest in Central Chile" |
Armin Heidingsfelder | 2003 | "On the business capacity of Douglas fir with particular consideration of pruning" |
Stills of our previous Awardees
Second from the right Susanne Neuner
Third from the left Emmanuel Steinbeis
From left to right: Prof. Dr. Karl-Reinhard Volz, Dr. Chantal Ruppert, Malte Viergutz, Rupprecht Baron of Reitzenstein, Stefanie Ederer, Prof. Dr. Heinz Rennenberg and the sponsor, the Rt. Hon. Prince Johannes of Waldburg zu Wolfegg
Award of the Johannes-B.-Ortner-Stiftung
in the centre: Fabian Härtl, at his right Johannes B. Ortner - photo: Andreas Heddergott, TUM
The Johannes B. Ortner-Stiftung was founded in 2005. The foundation supports research projects of young scientists from the fields of natural sciences and technology. Johannes B. Ortner is a honorary senator and a generous supporter of "his TUM". By honoring outstanding contributions of young scientists to the fields of natural sciences and technology, the foundation aims to establish a tradition to acknowledge scientific success stories.
Fabian Härtl | 2016 | "Der Einfluss des Holzpreises auf die Konkurrenz zwischen stofflicher und thermischer Holzverwertung – Ein forstbetrieblicher Planungsansatz unter Berücksichtigung von Risikoaspekten" |
Thurn und Taxis Award
from left to right: Dean Prof. Dr. Michael Weber, Fürstin Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Dr. Carola Paul, TUM vice president Prof. Dr. Ing. Gerhard Müller - photo: Harry Gunz, TUM
The award „Thurn und Taxis Förderpreis für die Forstwissenschaft“, that is endowed with a €6.000 price money, is annually been given to outstanding young researchers since 1978. In 2014 the foundation board under the attendance of Fürstin Gloria von Thurn und Taxis awarded Ms. Dr. Carola Paul of the Institute of Forest Management TUM for her outstanding doctoral thesis
Carola Paul | 2014 | „Agroforstliche Möglichkeiten zur Förderung von Wiederaufforstung in Panama – eine waldbaulich-ökonomische Analyse” |
Verena Griess | 2012 | „Zur Überlebenswahrscheinlichkeit der Fichte in Mischbeständen: Ansätze zur Verbesserung der bioökonomischen Modellierung von Waldbeständen” |
Thomas Knoke | 2004 | „Eine Bewertung von Nutzungsstrategien für Buchenbestände (Fagus sylvatica L.) vor dem Hintergrund des Risikos der Farbkernbildung – eine waldbaulich-forstökonomische Studie” |
Research Award of the National Secretary for Science, Technology and Innovation of Ecuador
right hand side: Santiago Ochoa
During the III. Meeting of Ecuadorian Students in Europe of SENESCYT (National Secretariat for Science Technology and Innovation) held in Berlin, Santiago Ochoa was awarded in the area of economic and social sciences.
Santiago Ochoa | 2014 | „Land use Portfolios in the dry forest in Southern Ecuador. Deriving Compensation and Conservation Strategies using a Land Use Optimization Approach” |
E.ON Future Award
From left to right: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Marcel Buchhorn
Since 2007 E.ON assigns in cooperation with the TU München the E.ON Future Award. This new scientific award will hand on outstanding dissertations and thesis which deal with topics like future, energy, technique or innovation.
Marcel Buchhorn | 2008 | „The Anisotropy Approach / Extra Information for Automatic Image Classification? - Synergistic use of spectral and angular signatures of CHRIS/Proba hyperspectral images in a temporal context” |
Count Lennart Bernadotte-Award for Land Stewardship
From left to right: Count Björn Bernadotte, the President of the Parliament of Thuringia Prof. Dagmar Schipanski, Dr. Marco Heurich, Countess Sonja Bernadotte
The Lennart-Bernadotte-Foundation awards on the Island of Mainau a price for exceptional scientific work, which contributes to balance engeneering, economics and nature in the sense of the Green Mainau Charta, which was agreed in 1961.
Marco Heurich | 2007 | "Evaluation and development of methods for automised detection of forest structures with data from airborne remote sensing" |
VDE/VDI Award
The following master thesis, which was prepared at the Institute of Forest Management, was awarded the price of the VDE South Bavaria / VDI Upper and Lower Bavaria.
Anja Oehler | 2005 | "Appraisal of the consequences of selected management limitations: A study on the basis of the example of the Pack Forest (USA)" |