Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize

Current Prize Winner

Dr. Enggar Pramanto Wibowo (center) at the Ernst Eckhard Koch Award ceremony in Berlin-Adlershof in December 2025 with Prof. Markus Bär from the Helmholtz Center Berlin, who had submitted the nomination, and the chair of the Friends Association, Prof. Franziska Emmerling. (Photo: HZB / Kevin Fuchs).

The prize was awarded to Dr. Enggar Pramanto Wibowo for his dissertation defended at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, entitled “Elucidating the Complex Oxidation Behavior of Phosphorus Impurities at the Pt|Aqueous H3PO3 Interface in HT-PEMFCs by a Combination of X-ray Spectroscopies.”  The work, carried out primarily at the Helmholtz Center Berlin and at BESSY II, deals with phosphorus chemistry in high-temperature PEM fuel cells. In doing so, he combines the further development of sophisticated in-situ/operando synchrotron methods with important contributions to the durability of fuel cells in the hydrogen economy.