2024 Best Dissertation Award
Tobias Röddiger, a PhD graduate from the Department of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), won the second edition of the Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award with his thesis titled “Earables: Wearable Computing on the Ears”. The Award, sponsored by Springer, was presented during the 20th European Informatics Leaders Summit (ECSS 2024), an in-person event in Sliema, Malta. Apart from the winner, two runners-up were selected by the Award Committee (sorted by last name in alphabetical order):
- Tim Quatmann, Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with the dissertation “Verification of Multi-Objective Markov Models”;
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Michael Sammler, Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Germany), with the dissertation “Automated and Foundational Verification of Low-Level Programs".
Learn more about the Award, 2024 winner and runners-up in the post-ceremony press release.
| On the photo from left to right: Dimka Karastoyanova (Award Committee Co-Chair, University of Groningen), Tobias Röddiger (Winner, PhD graduate from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jean-Marc Jézéquel (Informatics Europe President). |
We close this year's process by warmly thanking the 2024 Award Committee:
- Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Co-Chair)
- Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair)
- Premek Brada, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Manuel Carro, Technical University of Madrid / IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
- Dympna O'Sullivan, TU Dublin, Ireland