IEEE Photonics Society Sweden Chapter

Best PhD Thesis Award 2024

Nominations now being accepted

In 2017 the Sweden Chapter established an Award for recently graduated PhD researchers that have written an outstanding doctoral thesis in the general area of optics and photonics and that represents a remarkably impactful contribution to their field of research.

This year the award consists of SEK 10,000 and a certificate. The Award is funded through the IEEE Photonics Society 2024 Annual Chapter Grant.

The award is open to all relevant PhD students whose PhD was awarded by a Swedish university between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2024. This requires that the nominee has successfully defended his/her thesis during this period and has fulfilled all requirements to obtain the PhD degree. Except for the Members of the PhD Thesis Awards Board, any person may be nominated for the award, regardless of IEEE membership. Every university department can nominate a maximum of 2 PhD students during this nomination period.

Nomination deadline: 30 November 2024

The thesis must be nominated by the main supervisor and submitted to the Chair of the PhD Thesis Awards Board of the IEEE Photonics Society Sweden Chapter:

Prof. László Veisz
c/o Department of Physics
Umeå University
901 87 Umeå

The nomination packet must contain

• 3 copies of the PhD thesis
• a nomination letter not longer than 1 page, written by the nominee’s supervisor and co-signed by the dean/head of department
• if available, a page with a hyperlink to an electronic version of the PhD thesis.

For more information, see attached “Rules for the 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award”.