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As Editor-in-Chief of Materials, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Matertials 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in recognition of a Ph.D. student who has produced a highly anticipated academic potential thesis.
The award has been granted to the following thesis and its author: “Electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction on non-precious metal catalysts” by Mr. Sander Ratso, University of Tartu, Estonia.
The winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Materials before the end of 2023.
On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on accomplishment. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated researchers for their contributions to Materials and the Award Committee for their work in the evaluation and decision processes.
Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian Editor-in-Chief, Materials
Materials 2021 Best PhD Thesis Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Gonzalo Alvarez-Perez
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Xiaoyan Li
Chairperson
Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
Prof. Chunxu Pan
Wuhan University
Prof. Thomas Niendorf
University of Kassel
Dr. Jie He
University of Connecticut
Prof. Martin Weis
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Winner
Seung Hun Lee
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairperson
McGill University
Prof. Vlassis Likodimos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prof. Marco Corradi
Huddersfield University
Prof. Rene Buchet
Retired fron Universite Lyon 1
Dr. Francesc Xavier Espinach
Universitat de Girona
Winner
Wenjun Ni
Dalian University of Technology, China
Award Committee
Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Chairperson
McGill University
Dr. Csaba Balázsi
Dr. Roberta Grazia Toro
CNR-ISMN
Dr. Bogdana Mitu
National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics
Dr. Gaetano Giunta
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Winner
Sander Ratso
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonia
Award Committee
Dr. Materials Editorial Office
Chairperson
MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland
Dr. Xiangming He
Tsinghua University
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