Call for Nomination: 2024 IE Best Dissertation Award
As we enter the second year, we warmly welcome your nominations for the 2024 Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award.
Join us in acknowledging excellent PhD dissertations in informatics and empowering young informatics researchers to disseminate their research to a broader audience. Sponsored by Springer, the award includes a certificate, a prize of EUR 3,000, and an invitation to publish the awarded thesis. The winner will also be invited to the European Informatics Leaders Summit (ECSS) to give a short talk on their dissertation at the Award ceremony and share insights into their early career research experience at the Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRWS). Notable runners-up may also be recognised and invited to join the Award ceremony and ECRWS.
Each Informatics Europe member is invited to select an outstanding PhD dissertation, defended in the academic years 2022-2023 or 2023-2024, but on or before December 31, 2023, and submit the nomination following our instructions here.
The Award Committee will select the winner based on the following criteria:
- the originality of the research and the methods used
- the quality of the achieved results
- the societal impact of the thesis
- the quality of the exposition
Should more than one dissertation reach an equivalent top score, the one with the highest societal impact score will be selected.
Submission opens now! Nominate your best candidate by 1 June 2024.
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