TKFDM announces 7th FAIRest Dataset Award

The FAIRest Dataset in Chemistry!

The FAIR4Chem Award honors researchers in chemistry who publish their research data and thereby make an important contribution to open and transparent science. The award is given to published chemistry datasets that best comply with the FAIR principles – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable – and thus significantly support transparency in research and the reuse of scientific knowledge.
NFDI4Chem awards the FAIR4Chem Award once a year and honors the FAIRest dataset with prize money of €500. The TKFDM is particularly proud that both winners of this nationwide competition come from Thuringia this year.

The winners are:

1.)    Marius Michael Engler from Ilmenau University of Technology
„Supplement Data of Anolytes for All-Iron Redox-Flow Batteries„,
published on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15730784

2.)    Johannes Schenk, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,
„Inducing Hard Carbon-like Sodium Storage Behavior in Graphitizable Carbon via Post-Synthetic Introduction of Closed Porosity“,
published on Radar4Chem: https://dx.doi.org/10.22000/wzkv93yajesb20mx

We warmly congratulate both award winners!

If you are also interested in publishing FAIR datasets, we recommend our “FAIRify Your Data” workshop on February 10, 2026.
In addition, TKFDM also offers its own FAIRest Dataset Award, which will start on February 15. Further information will be available on this website shortly.