15th July 2025
The ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners during a special function held as part of the ALICE Week collaboration meeting at CERN.
ALICE PhD thesis awards are dedicated to the memory of Karel Šafařík (1953–2024)!
The winners are:
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Dr. Mihail-Bogdan Blidaru (University of Heidelberg, Germany) for the thesis on "Bent monolithic active pixel sensors and material budget imaging studies towards the ALICE ITS3 upgrade"
Link to the Flash talk of Mihail -
Dr. Mario Ciacco (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) for the thesis on "Measurement of quantum numbers balance and fluctuations with ALICE at the LHC"
Link to the Flash talk of Mario -
Dr. Matthias Kleiner (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) for the thesis on "Drift-Field Distortions and Specific Energy Loss Calibration of the ALICE TPC in LHC Run 3"
Link to the Flash talk of Matthias -
Dr. Stefano Politano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) for the thesis on "Heavy quark study via prompt and non-prompt strange D-meson measurements in pp and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC"
Link to the Flash talk of Stefano -
Dr. Wioleta Rzesa (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) for the thesis on "Non-identical particle femtoscopy of pairs containing deuteron and interaction studies of nucleons with strange matter"
Link to the Flash talk of Wioleta
Congratulations to the winners!
Photos in the CDS
Link to the ALICE Thesis Award website