Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Malte Stodt on receiving the Johannes Möller Prize 2025, which was awarded on April 2 at the meeting of the Dechema/VDI Agglomeration and Bulk Solids Technology Division in Friedrichshafen.  

The Möller Foundation for the Promotion of Science and Research awards this prize annually to outstanding dissertations in the field of solids process engineering. Dr. Malte Stodt impressed the jury with his work on the laser-optical analysis of droplet movements in spray flames, which enabled a comprehensive process analysis of flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) for the production of functional, nanoscale particle systems.  Particularly noteworthy is the first proof of temporal self-similarity of spray formation and the detection of µ-explosions in FSP spray flames - a significant contribution to basic research in particle synthesis.  

The award-winning dissertation entitled "Laser Diagnostics in Spray Flame Mixing Processes during the Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles" was carried out at Leibniz-IWT (Multiphase Flow Group, Prof. Udo Fritsching) and at the Department of Technical Thermodynamics at the University of Bremen (Prof. Johannes Kiefer). The doctorate was awarded in April 2024 in the Department of Production Engineering at the University of Bremen.