Best PhD Thesis Award

Launched in 2021, the Foods Best PhD Thesis Award is presented annually to recognize young scholars who are judged to have completed the most outstanding PhD theses in the field of food science, and to encourage them to continue their outstanding work and further contribute to their field. The application deadline for this award was 31 March 2026, and winners were announced in May.

The Prize:
– CHF 500;
– A certificate;
– A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

Number of Winners: 2

 
Foods Best PhD Thesis Award
 
Application deadline: 31 March 2026
Winner announcement: 31 May 2026

Eligibility and Requirements

– 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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