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Doctoral Thesis Award of the German Astronomical Society for Annika Rudolph
DESY PhD student Annika Rudolph will be awarded the German Astronomical Society´s 2023 Doctoral Thesis Award for her outstanding PhD thesis. The national professional association for astronomy and astrophysics made the announcement today. Annika Rudolph, who received her PhD from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, will receive the award for her work on high-energy astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts using numerical modeling.
In her dissertation, titled “Emission of Multiple Messengers from Gamma-Ray Bursts”, Rudolph works on the problem of astrophysical models to describe simultaneously the emission of ultrahigh-energy radiation and the emission of neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts. The tools she developed in her work allow predictions over a very wide electromagnetic spectral range and also for neutrinos.
The predictions her modeling leads to can now be tested against observations. 2Annika´s work is a significant contribution to gamma-ray bursts that goes far beyond the current state of knowledge,” says her PhD supervisor Walter Winter, head of the Theoretical Astroparticle Physics group at DESY and a private lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
To continue her work, Annika Rudolph has moved to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen to work as a postdoc. The doctoral thesis award will be presented to her at the annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society in Berlin in September.
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Announcement of the German Astronomical Society
