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Otto-Junker Prize 2025: Two ETIT Graduates Honored

November 17th, 2025 | by

This year’s Otto-Junker Prize 2025 brings double success for our faculty:
Two ETIT graduates have been honored for outstanding academic achievements.

Udo von Berg, RWTH-Rektor Ulrich Rüdiger und Wolfgang Bleck (hintere Reihe, von links) gratulierten den Preisträgern Shiv Shrankar, Fenja Celine Lobenstein, Antoni Chajan und Jakob Neugebauer (vordere Reihe, von links).

Foto: Andreas Schmitter

Antoni Chajan was awarded for his excellent master’s thesis on topology detection in electrical distribution grids using machine learning, supervised at IAEW by Prof. Andreas Ulbig. He now works as a project engineer at FGH. In the photo: front row, second from the right.

Fenja Celine Lobenstein, Industrial Engineering – Electrical Power Engineering, completed her T.I.M.E. double degree at RWTH and CTU Prague with distinction. Her master’s thesis on the prediction of prices and market values of cross-zonal balancing capacities was supervised by Prof. Albert Moser at IAEW. Since 2025, she has been working as a portfolio manager at the energy utility Bonn/Rhein-Sieg. In the photo: front row, second from the left.

The Otto-Junker Prize is awarded annually to graduates of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as well as the Materials Science group. The awards were presented by RWTH Rector Prof. Ulrich Rüdiger and the Otto Junker Foundation Board.

We warmly congratulate our award winners and celebrate this strong achievement for ETIT!

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