Award to the PhD student who, in the opinion of EPA Executive Committee has defended the best PhD thesis in the two years prior to being nominated by an EPA member. It is awarded biennially to the EPA member.
Call for nominations
Nominations should be sent (electronically only) to the EPA President.
CLOSED
The 2018 EPA PhD thesis in photochemistry will be awarded during the 27th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry which will be held in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2018.
Victor Gray from Chalmers University in Göteborg will be awarded for his work on Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Based Photon Upconversion on fluorescent DNA probes. He will present his work at the Symposium. The Prize is 1,000 Euros, plus travel costs to Dublin (maximum 300 Euros) and one free year of EPA membership.
Nominations must include:
- Curriculum Vitae of the candidate
- Copy of the thesis
- Abstract of thesis in English, no more than five pages
- Lislications arising from the thesis
- A letter of support.
Closing date for the receipt of nominations will be 31st December 2017.
Former laureates
Last edition: 2016
Tomáš Slanina
Country: Hungary/Germany
Institution: Masaryk University/University of Regensburg
Thesis supervisors: Petr Klán and Burkhard König
2014
Giuseppina La Ganga
Country: Italy
Thesis supervisor: Sebastiano Campagna
2012
Karl Börjesson
Country: Sweden
Thesis supervisior: Bo Albinsson
2010
Anne Kotiaho
Country: Finland
Thesis supervisior: Helge Lemmetyinen
2008 (shared)
Maria Abrahamsson
Country: Sweden
Thesis supervisior: Leif Hammarström
2008 (shared)
Alexandre Fürstenberg
Country: Switzerland
Thesis supervisor: Eric Vauthey