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 OPEN
Nominations should be sent (electronically only) to the EPA President.
Deadline for application is February 29th.
Please, be sure to read the information note below and to attach all the required documents to your application.
The laureate will be announced in spring 2020 and the 2020 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 2020.
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.
- 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.
Closing date for the receipt of nominations will be February 29th, 2020.
Former laureates
Last edition: 2018
Victor Gray
Country: Sweden
Institution: Chalmers University of Technology
Thesis supervisors: Kasper Moth-Poulsen
2020
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Country: —
PhD supervisor: —
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