Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) awards the Röntgen Prize to astrophysicist and science communicator Dr. Victoria Grinberg, who is a junior research group leader at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and a science communicator at ESA.
Stellar winds and black holes
Dr. Grinberg was honored for her research on stellar winds and black holes. So-called X-ray binaries play a major role here: In these, matter is transferred from a massive star to a compact star - for example, a black hole - by stellar winds. Dr. Grinberg analyzed the resulting X-ray radiation using observation data from X-ray satellites and obtained interesting results about stellar winds, which are of great importance for the evolution of massive stars and of X-ray binaries.
The Röntgen Prize is awarded for outstanding work on basic research in radiation physics and radiation biology. It is named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who was a professor in Giessen from 1879 to 1888. The award is primarily intended to honor the work of young scientists. The prize, which is endowed with € 15,000, is sponsored in equal parts by Pfeiffer Vacuum and the Ludwig Schunk Foundation.