New IE Best Dissertation Award: Call for Nominations
Join our new Best Dissertation Award to recognise excellent PhD dissertations in informatics and support young informatics researchers to disseminate their research to a broader audience.
Sponsored by Springer, the award consists 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 institution is invited to select an outstanding PhD dissertation, defended in the academic years 2021-2022 or 2022-2023, but on or before December 31, 2022, and submit the nomination following 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 by 15 June 2023.
Please feel free to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should you have any question regarding the Award. We look forward to receiving your submissions!