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Dr.-Ing. Laura König-Mattern is an alumna of the Process Engineering Department at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg. She was awarded second prize in the German Study Award for her doctoral thesis on "Systematic Solvent Screening and Design for Biomass Fractionation Processes." 

CDS member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) in Sofia, Bulgaria, on November 25th, 2025.

CDS Director Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Benner was elected as a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering, by the General Assembly in October 2025. Prof. Peter Benner is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Head of the Department of Numerical Methods in Systems and Control Theory.

From October 7th to 10th, 2025, around 250 researchers, clinicians, and students from 22 countries met in Berlin for the ECDO conference. The 31st annual meeting of the European Cell Death Organisation (ECDO) was held under the motto "Classic Meets Modern – Functional Specificity and Crosstalk of New and Old Types of Cell Death".

CDS spokesperson Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Sundmacher, Professor at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems Magdeburg, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) in Sofia, Bulgaria, on November 5th, 2025.

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler am Max-Planck-Institut Magdeburg entwickelten CoSeCats, ein skalierbares, lastflexibles Katalysator-Reaktor-System für die chemische Speicherung von erneuerbarer Energie.

 Vom 10. bis 12. September 2025 waren im Rahmen der Veranstaltung  PerspektivForum Karrierewege: „Energiewende neu denken: von der Theorie zur Praxis" „Jugend forscht“ 40 ehemalige Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer des bundesweiten Nachwuchswettbewerbs „Jugend forscht“ zu Gast in Magdeburg.

Prof. Dr. Sohini Kar-Narayan will take up her full-time position as the new director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems and as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society with effect from October 1, 2025. The materials scientist heads the new Materials Systems Engineering department and brings her expertise in the field of functionalized materials systems and devices to the Magdeburg institute.