The Department of Physics organized a graduation ceremony (Absolventinnen- und Absolventenfeier) to recognize the accomplishments of its bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral students who have completed their degrees. The event started with a warm greeting by Prof. Fritz E. Kühn, School of Natural Sciences’ new Vice Dean of Academic and Student Affairs, who thanked everybody for coming and congratulated the students on their achievements (joking that he initially considered studying physics, despite becoming a chemist for his career). The event was then hosted by Academic Program Director Prof. Julia Herzen, who introduced TUM alumnus Dr. Wael Chibani. Dr. Chibani is a former BSc and MSc student of the TUM physics department who is now Senior Manager in Operations for Product Development and Innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers (pwc) Germany. His presentation showed how physics is a mindset that prepares its graduates with experience in problem-solving and curiosity, offering transferrable skills for all kinds of careers and the ability to network and communicate across cultures and disciplines.

Mirjam Fischer, a BSc awardee, was then given the stage, and reflected on her years as student, friendships she has made, and challenges she and classmates have overcome. Maximiliane Wojke, an MSc awardee, then continued with a presentation entitled, “High-resolution X-ray tomography: Imaging of electrical conductor pathways to nerve pathways”, supervised by Prof. Franz Pfeiffer, Chair of Biomedical Physics.

The final scientific contribution to the event was presented by Dr. Jana Grupa, a PhD Awardee, who talked about she and colleagues are trying to resolve how fast the universe is expanding by using gravitationally lensed supernovae and advanced modeling techniques to measure time delays between images taken by the Rubin Observatory in Chile. Dr. Grupa was supervised by Prof. Sherry Suyu, Professorship for Observational Cosmology.

Prof. David Egger, Representative for Physics in the Graduate Center of the NAT School, and Herzen then took turns presenting every student with their respective pin (bronze, silver or gold corresponding to their academic stage of their career as BSc, MSc, or PhD graduates), announcing the name of each candidate, the title of their thesis, and the name of the supervising professor. At the end, Prof. Peter Fierlinger, who, as representative of the association “Freunde und Förderer der Physik an der TUM” (Friends and Supporters of Physics at TUM), presented the award for Best Bachelor’s student to Xaver Stölzle and the Best Master’s student award to Alexander Musta. The ceremony concluded with a sparkling wine reception, where students, friends, and family toasted the occasion and congratulated the awardees.

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