Annually, the SFB1258 awards prizes for the best Master & PhD theses within the SFB1258. The prize is endowed with 500 Euro for the best Master, and 1.000 Euro for the best PhD thesis. A committee selects the best theses from the nominations. The call opens yearly in late winter.

Best PhD thesis

Petter Taule: Neutrinos in Cosmology (theory)

Tommaso Comellato: Inverted Coaxial Detectors for LEGEND (experiment)

Best Master thesis

Elisa Schösser: Misidentification of Short GRBs as Magnetars in Nearby Galaxies

Best PhD thesis

Johannes Rothe: Low-Threshold Cryogenic Detectors for Low-Mass Dark Matter Search and Coherent Neutrino Scattering

Best Master thesis

Emma Chizzali: First Experimental Evidence of an Attractive Proton-Φ-Interaction

Best PhD thesis

Stefan Knirck: How to search for Axion Dark Matter with MADMAX

Best Master thesis

Gonzalo Herrera: Halo-independent interpretation of dark matter searches with CRESST

Best PhD thesis

Joana Wirth: (Strange) Meson Production in Pion-Nucleus Collisions at 1.7 GeV/c

Best Master thesis

Korbinian Urban: Application of a TRISTAN Silicon Drift Detector as Forward Beam Monitor in KATRIN

Best PhD thesis

Robert Bollig: Muon creation and effects in Supernovae

Best Master theses

Lisa Schlüter: Development of New Methods to include Systematic Effects in the First Tritium Data Analysis and Sensitivity Studies of the KATRIN Experiment

Christian Karl: Analysis of First Tritium Data of the KATRIN Experiment

Best PhD thesis

Stefan Coenders: High-energy cosmic ray accelerators: searches with IceCube neutrinos

Best Master thesis

Maximilian Ruhdorfer: