New Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award – Call for Nominations

Dear colleague,

We are delighted to announce our new Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award, to recognise excellent PhD dissertations in informatics and support young informatics researchers from our member institutionsto disseminate their research to a broader audience.

Sponsored by Springer, the award consist of a certificate, a prize of EUR 3,000, and the invitation to the winner to publish the awarded thesis as well as to attend the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) and present the work during its Official Award Ceremony, on October 24, 2023. Noteworthy runners-up may also be recognised and invited to join the Award ceremony.

Each Informatics Europe member institutions is invited to select an outstanding PhD dissertation, defended in the 2022 calendar year, and submit the nominationfollowing 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 achieve 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 by15 June 2023.

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] should you have any question regarding the Award. We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best regards,

Informatics Europe