Sustainability Award for Marleen Quurk
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Marleen Quurk has received the 2026 Student Sustainability Award of the City of Mannheim’s Economic Development Office for her master’s thesis “Techno-Economic Analysis of Decarbonizing Rail Transport in Germany: Hydrogen vs. Electrification”. Her thesis compares hydrogen and electrification as pathways to decarbonize rail transport in Germany from a technical and economic perspective. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Gunther Glenk and Rezvan Derayati.
The award ceremony will take place on 18 November 2026 in the auditorium of the Eberhard-Gothein-Schule in Mannheim. The certificates will be presented by Mannheim’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs, Riehle, and Deputy Mayor for Education, Grunert.
Congratulations!