John Dawson Thesis Prize
“John Dawson Thesis Prize” is awarded on a biannual basis to the best PhD thesis in the area of plasma accelerators driven by laser or particle beams. The prize will be awarded for fundamental (theoretical or experimental) or applied aspects.
Each prize winner will receive a certificate of merit, up to 500 Euros, and financial support to attend the “Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop,” where the prize will be awarded.
Because of pandemic restrictions that made non-possible the previous edition of LPAW, it has been decided that the student who defended their thesis these last four years will be eligible to participate. Therefore, in 2023, two John Dawson Thesis prizes will be awarded, one for the period covering 2019-2020 and a second one for 2021-2022. They will be given at Lagos, Portugal where the LPAW23 workshop will be held.
The 2023 John Dawson Thesis Prize Committee members are C. Joshi (UCLA), V. Malka (WIS), Z. Najmudin (IC), W. Lu (TU), U. Schramm (HZDR), C. Schroeder (LBNL), and L. Silva (IST).
Applications
The deadline for applications has passed. We thank everyone that submitted!
Winners
In the end, three prizes were awarded. One for the period covering thesis defended between 2019-2020 (JD prize 2021) and two for 2021-2022 (JD prize 2023). All the applications were extremely impressive.
The winners were:
- 2021: Yipeng Wu (graduated from Tsinghua University, China)
- 2023: Xinglong Zhu (graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
- 2023: Manuel Kirchen (graduated from the University of Hamburg, Germany)
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