Klemens Katterbauer (Ph.D. candidate under supervision Andrea Fratalocchi) has come 2nd place in the graduate division (best Ph.D. competitor) of the Middle East, North Africa & South Asia SPE Student Paper contest held during the North Africa Technical Conference & Exhibition in Cairo from the 16-17th of April 2013 with his paper was about "Laser Well Drilling: Overcoming Stimulated Brillouin Scattering or efficient Drilling".
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