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
Call for nominations is CLOSED
The laureate will be announced in spring 2022 and the 2022 EPA PhD Award in Photochemistry will be awarded during the 28th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry which will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in July 2022.
The laureate will present his/her work at the Symposium. The Prize is 1,000 Euros, plus travel costs to Amsterdam (maximum 300 Euros) and one free year of EPA membership.
Former laureates
Last edition: 2020
Bogdan Dereka
Country: Switzerland
Institution: University of Geneva
Thesis supervisors: Eric Vauthey
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