The african Master’s student Eunice David Likotiko is honoured for her research in Germany, brasilian Fábio Vidor is honoured for his doctoral thesis
The Master’s student from Tansania, Eunice David Likotiko, said that life in Germany is, above all, "simple and smart". The busses would always be on time, there are a lot of public Wifi hotspots and the professors would work more closely with the students, says the graduate about the difference to her life in Arusha, Tansania. She started off from the Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology as an exchange student towards Paderborn in order to write her Master’s thesis. After her return her home university has honoured her Master’s thesis as the best of her year. She tells enthusiastically about the professors Dr.–Ing. Urlich Hilleringmann who supervised their colleague Dmitry Petrov. „Both of them have supported me greatly, it has been a pleasure to work with them.“
Her excellent work deals with visal displays showing the filling status of bins, which are bundeled in real time and are evaluated. "In Africa there are also refuse collections, but they don’t come to the remote areas of the country: there the waste lands up in nature." This problem could be solved by bins can be systematically stopped at as soon as they are full, explains Likotiko, who works as a scientific staff member in the Nelson Mandela Institute by now. She even performed with a presentation for this topic at the International Science and Technology Conference in Berlin and received a positive feedback.
In the future she would like to keep on working with intelligent systems and data collections and is looking for a spot to work upon her doctoral thesis. "If I find a supervising professor in Germany, I may come back, who knows", she said.
Dr.–Ing. Fábio Vidor received the prize of the presidium for excellent dissertations. In his doctoral thesis he dealt with thin–film transistor, which is used in screens for example.
For the Brasilian it has already been the second longer stay in Germany – he already had spent one semester here during his Bachelor. For his dissertation he came back for four more years. He especially liked the short distances in the small town of Paderborn, as well as feeling safe going anywhere, according to Vidor. What he noticed about the german mentality most of all is that it takes longer to get in touch with other people and to establish friendships. "In Brasil people become friends as soon as they have greated one an other."
He enthusiastically tells about the teamwork with his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr.–Ing. Urlich Hilleringmann. He is also still bound in friendship with his other colleagues, says Vidor.
Experiments of how thin–film transistor with cheaper resources and easy production processes can be built were in the centre of his dissertation. Besides he experimented different materials in order to improve the performance and reliability of the transistors and to increase their possible ambit.
