Every year, top doctoral candidates at Freie Universität receive Ernst Reuter Prizes for their research. Here’s a look at the 2019 winners and their dissertation topics:

• Dr. Tobias Jochum
  The Ethics of Representation in Contemporary Literary Narratives of Border Violence
  Department of Philosophy and Humanities

• Dr. Annika Schnücker
  Model Selection Methods for Panel Vector Autoregressive Models
  School of Business and Economics

• Dr. Jakob Trimpert
  The Role of DNA Polymerase Fidelity on Genetic Variation and Pathogenicity of Mareks’s Disease Virus
  Department of Veterinary Medicine

• Dr. Sophia Walther
  Assessment of the Dynamics of Terrestrial Vegetation Using Satellite Observations of Greenness and Sun-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence
  Department of Earth Sciences

• Dr. Henrik Wilming
  A Quantum of Thermodynamics: From Ground State Cooling to Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  Department of Physics