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Number of Winners: 2
Foods Best PhD Thesis Award
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
Winner announcement: 31 May 2026
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced an outstanding PhD thesis; – The PhD thesis must be their original work; – The PhD thesis must be defended in 2025.
List of Documents for Application
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words; – A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award; – The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis; – An electronic copy of the PhD thesis; – A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Apostolia Tsiasioti
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ajay Mittal
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Arun K Bhunia
Chairman
Purdue University
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Varzakas
UNIVERSITY OF THE PELOPONNESE
Prof. Dr. Susana Casal
LAQV/Requimte, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto
Dr. Ricard Boqué
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Winner
Ana López Moreno
University of Granada, Spain
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Arun Bhunia
Chairman
Purdue University
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Varzakas
UNIVERSITY OF THE PELOPONNESE
Prof. Michelle Colgrave
Prof. Dr. Susana Casal
LAQV/Requimte, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto
Dr. Luís R. Silva
FFUP/REQUIMTE
Dr. Ricard Boqué
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Winner
Beatriz Quintanilla Casas
University of Copenhagen,Denmark
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Arun Bhunia
Chairman
Purdue University
Dr. Silvia Pichardo
Universidad de Sevilla
Prof. Dr. José Antonio Beltrán
Zaragoza University
Dr. Esther Sendra
Universidad Miguel Hernández
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Varzakas
UNIVERSITY OF THE PELOPONNESE
Winner
Kinga Gawlińska
Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences,Poland
Amin Nikkhah
Ghent University,Belgium
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Arun Bhunia
Chairman
Purdue University
Dr. Juana Fernández López
Miguel Hernández University
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Varzakas
UNIVERSITY OF THE PELOPONNESE
Prof. Dr. Susana Casal
LAQV/Requimte, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto
Prof. Joana Amaral
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
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