INVITATION (in German only)
This year, the Forschungsverbund Berlin (FVB) is honoring two outstanding young female scientists: Dr. Nasibeh Haghighi and Dr. Carla Kirschbaum. The speaker of the executive board of the FVB and director at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Prof. Stefan Eisebitt, will welcome the audience. Dr. Bahar Haghanipour, Vice President of the Berlin House of Representatives, will give the celebratory address. After laudatory speeches by Prof. James A. Lott, Technische Universität Berlin, and Prof. Kevin Pagel, Freie Universität Berlin, the award winners will present the most important results of their dissertations. A small get-together will take place after the award ceremony.
Presenter: Julika Schmitz
Music: Satumaa
The Marthe Vogt Award ceremony will take place from 6 to 8 pm on November 8 at Leibniz Headquarters, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin.
Registration:
We ask for registration by e-mail.
Contact: preisverleihungfv-berlin.de
About the Laureates:
Dr. Nasibeh Haghighi is a project leader at ams-Osram where she works on laser chip development for advanced sensing systems. For her dissertation at Technische Universität Berlin, supervised by Prof. James A. Lott, she performed groundbreaking research on semiconductor vertical cavity surface emitting laser arrays, uncovering new device physics and fabrication methods, and shattering records in speed, power, and energy efficiency – thus enabling the development of a new class of highly practical optical wireless communication systems. Prior to joining Osram, she was a scientist at the Ferdinand Braun Institut in Berlin. She holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in chemistry from Razi University and the University of Kurdistan, both in Iran. Dr. Nasibeh Haghighi will receive the Marthe Vogt Award 2023 for her outstanding doctoral thesis.
Dr. Carla Kirschbaum is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Oxford in the group of Prof. Dame Carol Robinson. There she is investigating the interactions between membrane proteins and lipids in the cell membrane using mass spectrometry. Already during her chemistry studies in Berlin and Paris, she developed an interest in the analysis of biomolecules with respect to their biological functions. In her doctoral thesis, she was finally able to show that minimal, often biologically relevant structural differences in lipids can be visualized using mass spectrometry-based infrared spectroscopy. She performed her thesis at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Pagel. For her outstanding doctoral thesis, Dr. Carla Kirschbaum will receive the Marthe Vogt Award 2023.
