DAAS Award

The prize was awarded to Dr. Carla Kirschbaum on the occasion of ANAKON 2023 in Vienna - in recognition of her dissertation entitled "Lipid Fingerprinting by Mass Spectrometry and Laser Light", which she wrote under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kevin Pagel at the Free University of Berlin and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society:

"Ms. Kirschbaum's achievements are best illustrated by six prizes and fifteen publications on the subject of analytical spectroscopy of lipids, some of which appeared in the most prestigious journals . She was the first to use cryogenic infrared action spectroscopy to study complex biomolecules. In particular, she was able to distinguish between isomers of glycolipids, sphingolipids and fatty acids using fingerprinting in the infrared spectrum. Furthermore, Ms. Kirschbaum's achievements are impressive because she has dealt with a variety of analytical spectrometric techniques - such as tandem mass spectrometry, with which she was able to impressively elucidate the mechanism of glycerolipid fragmentation."