Awards and Honors

EU´s Seagriculture Innovation AWARD (2022)

Awarded by Seagriculture EU 2022 for the project “Off-Shore-Ulva” that supports the sustainable development of the EU´s seaweed sector. Find details here.


HILDA CANTER-LUND AWARD (2021)

Awarded by the British Phycological Society for the photograph “Forestal” that best combines informative, technical and aesthetic qualities in order to transmit algae research to the broad public. Find details here.


KING CARL XVI GUSTAFS 50th ANNIVERSARY AWARD FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENT (2021)

Royal grant awarded by the Swedish King Carl XVI. Gustaf for the research on sustainable seaweed cultivation and marine biodiversity protection in Sweden. Find details here.


BOTANICAL CONGRESS 2017: BEST POSTER AWARD

Awarded at the Botanical Congress 2017 in Kiel for the paper on: “Conspecificity of Ulva compressa and Ulva mutabilis (Ulvales, Chlorophyta): model organism meets invasive seaweed”


ERNST-GEORG-PRINGSHEIM-AWARD 2016: FOR AN OUTSTANDING PHD THESIS

Awarded by the Phycology Section of the German Botanical Society
Subject: “Genetic Survey of Ulvales in Northern Germany reveals diversity and introduced species”. Find details here.


AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS 2014: FOR THE BEST MASTER THESIS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Awarded by the German Botanical Society
Subject: “Ultrastructure of cells of Cryptochlora perforans (Chlorarachniophyta)”. Find details here.


AWARD OF THE FACULTY OF BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF THE JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITY GIEßEN 2014

For accomplishing the degree Master of Science with distinction (mark: 1,0 / equals A+). Awarded by the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry of the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

Dr. Sophie Steinhagen