The ABB Research Award in Honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg is named after Dr. Hubertus von Gruenberg, who was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the technology company ABB from 2007 to 2015.
Endowment and format Awarded every three years, the prize is endowed with a research grant of US$300,000. The prize is awarded to a postdoctoral researcher working in the fields of energy, manufacturing, transport, infrastructure, digitalization, or related fields. The grant enables the awardee to continue research on his or her topic for three years.
Purpose The award was created to sustain high levels of research and encourage the development of future technologies and applications.
Awardees
2016 Dr. Jef Beerten from KU Leuven for his PhD thesis on "Modeling and Control of DC Power Systems"
2019 Dr. Ambuj Varshney from Uppsala University/University of California, Berkeley for his PhD thesis on "Enabling Sustainable Networked Embedded Systems"
Jury
2016 The 2016 jury consisted of
Prof. Robert Armstrong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Ulrike Grossner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) Prof. Nina Thornhill, Imperial College London Prof. Zheyao Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing Bazmi Husain, ABB's Chief Technology Officer Dr. Hubertus von Gruenberg, former ABB Chairman
2019 The 2019 jury consisted of
Prof. Nina Thornhill (Imperial College London) Prof. M. Granger Morgan (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh) Prof. Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Prof. C.L. Philip Chen (University of Macau, Taipa, Macau) Bazmi Husain, CTO of ABB Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, former ABB Chairman
2022 The 2022 jury consisted of
Prof. Ambuj Varshney (National University of Singapore) Prof. Nina Thornhill (Imperial College London) Prof. Roland Siegwart (ETH Zurich) Prof. Manfred Morari (University of Pennsylvania) Dr. Bernhard Eschermann, CTO of ABB Process Automation Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, former ABB Chairman
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