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Change at the top of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML: As of April 1, Prof. Alice Kirchheim is taking over the Material Flow Sys-tems department at Fraunhofer IML, along with the Chair of Material Han-dling and Warehousing at TU Dortmund University. Kirchheim, a scientist with outstanding experience in automation in intralogistics, will also be a valuable addition to the institute in Dortmund thanks to her expertise relat-ing to the digital transformation and the use of AI in logistics. She is succeed-ing Prof. Michael ten Hompel, who is retiring after 24 years as the institute director at Fraunhofer IML and the holder of the same chair.
A new material for faster, energy-saving semiconductor memory, efficient 3D audio, and an innovative approach to early detection of cancer: Three next-generation researchers, one each from Dresden, Erlangen, and Leipzig, were awarded the Hugo Geiger Prize on February 28 for their dissertations in applied research. The prize is given out annually by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi) and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in recognition of outstanding applied doctoral work com-pleted in close collaboration with a Fraunhofer institute.