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 the year of the award. It is awarded biennially.

Call for nominations

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Call for nominations is CLOSED

Frequency: Biennial, even years

Requisites: The candidate must have defended his/her thesis in the two years before the year of the award. The candidate must be nominated by an EPA member. The candidate does not need to be an EPA member.

The nomination package should include:

  • Curriculum Vitae of the candidate
  • Copy of the thesis
  • Abstract of thesis in English, no more than five pages
  • List of publications arising from the thesis
  • A letter of support

Award: Prize certificate / 1000 EUR / Travel costs to the award ceremony up to 500 EUR. Three free years of EPA membership. Short talk (15-20 min) at a large photochemistry conference, typically PhotoIUPAC, in a plenary session

Deadline for submission: 28./29. February of even year.

Timeline of the award: Announcement of the laureate in the spring. Award in the summer

Award ceremony: At a large photochemistry conference, typically PhotoIUPAC, in a plenary session.

Former laureates

Last edition: 2022

Country: Italy
Institution: University of Bologna
Thesis title : Novel photo- and electro-responsive supramolecular systems and molecular machines
Thesis supervisors: Serena Silvi and Alberto Credi

2026

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2022

Country: Italy
PhD supervisors: Serena Silvi and Alberto Credi

2020

Bogdan Dereka

Country: Switzerland
PhD supervisor: Eric Vauthey

2018

Victor Gray

Country: Sweden
PhD supervisor: Kasper Moth-Poulsen

2016

Tomáš Slanina

Country: Hungary/Germany
PhD supervisor: Petr Klán and Burkhard König

2014

Giuseppina La Ganga

Country: Italy
PhD supervisor: Sebastiano Campagna

2012

Karl Börjesson

Country: Sweden
PhD supervisor: Bo Albinsson

2010

Anne Kotiaho

Country: Finland
PhD supervisor: Helge Lemmetyinen

2008 (shared)

Maria Abrahamsson

Country: Sweden
PhD supervisor: Leif Hammarström

2008 (shared)

Alexandre Fürstenberg

Country: Switzerland
Thesis supervisor: Eric Vauthey