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As the Editor-in-Chief of Water, it is my great pleasure to announce the winner of the 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.
The award has been granted to: “Green-Gray Coupled Runoff Control Infrastructure Adaptive Multi-Objective Optimization Method” By Zijing Liu, Tsinghua University, China
The winner will receive CHF 800, an electronic certificate and an offer to publish a featured paper in Water with the article processing charge (APC) waived before the end of 2023.
On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Dr. Jean-Luc PROBST Editor-in-Chief, Water
Water 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Ana Cristina Oliveira Afonso
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Juraj Parajka
Prof. Francesco Napolitano
Prof. John Zhou
University of Technology Sydney
Winner
Eva Florbela Domingues Gomes
Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Details
Award Committee
Prof. Jean-luc Probst
Chairman
CNRS
Prof. Dr. Laura Bulgariu
Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi
Prof. Dr. Antonio ZUORRO
Sapienza - University of Rome
Prof. Tammo Steenhuis
cornell
Winner
Zijing Liu
Tsinghua University
Award Committee
Dr. Yujue Wang
Chairman
Dr. Eugene Morozov
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Dr. Laura Bulgariu
Technical University Gheorghe Asachi of Iasi
Prof. Dr. Zhijun Li
State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology
Winner
Zhiyao Wang
The University of Queensland
Award Committee
Prof. Dionysios (Dion) Dionysiou
Chairman
Dr. Achim A. Beylich
Geomorphological Field Laboratory (GFL)
Dr. Maria Mimikou
Dr. Xinchun Cao
Hohai University
Prof. Dr. Antonio Panico
University of Campania L. Vanvitelli - Department of Engineering
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