Röntgen Prize for astrophysicist Dr. Victoria Grinberg.

Pfeiffer Vacuum and Schunk Group support young scientists.

Röntgen Prize winner Dr. Victoria Grinberg during her visit to Schunk.

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.