Prize of the City of Bayreuth goes to Dr Sophie Hermann
At this year's President's Dinner on Friday, 17 November 2023, prizes were awarded for outstanding teaching, special research achievements and impressive social commitment.
Lord Mayor Thomas Ebersberger awarded the Prize of the City of Bayreuth at the President's Dinner. Dr Sophie Hermann, André Reinelt and Dr Yannik Jännsch were honoured for their outstanding dissertations.
Dr Sophie Hermann received the prize for her dissertation, in which she covers a wide range of topics in theoretical physics. The title of the thesis is: "Forces and symmetries in the statistical mechanics of active and thermal many-body systems".
The thesis was supervised by Prof Dr Matthias Schmidt, Chair of Theoretical Physics II, as part of his doctorate in Faculty I of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science.