Friday, January 16, 2026

EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025 -- Call for Nominations

It's the time of the year for the standard call for nominations for EATCS Awards. Today, I am reposting the call for nominations for the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025. See below and here for details. 

Do spread the news and encourage worthy candidates to submit their theses for this accolade!

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The EATCS establishes the Distinguished Dissertation Award to promote and
recognize outstanding dissertations in the field of Theoretical Computer
Science.

Any PhD dissertation in the field of Theoretical Computer Science that has been
successfully defended in 2025 is eligible.

Up to three dissertations will be selected by the committee for year 2025. The
dissertations will be evaluated on the basis of originality and potential impact
on their respective fields and on Theoretical Computer Science.

Each of the selected dissertations will receive a prize of 1000 Euro. The award
receiving dissertations will be published on the EATCS web site, where all the
EATCS Distinguished Dissertations will be collected.

The dissertation must be submitted by the author as an attachment to an email
message sent to the address dissertation-award@eatcs.org with subject EATCS
Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025 by February 28th, 2026 (CET). The deadline
is strict and late submissions will not be considered.

The body of the message must specify: Name and email address of the candidate;
Title of the dissertation; Department that has awarded the PhD and denomination
of the PhD program; Name and email address of the thesis supervisor; Date of the
successful defence of the thesis.

A five-page abstract of the dissertation and a letter by the thesis supervisor
certifying that the thesis has been successfully defended must also be included.
In addition, an endorsement letter from the thesis supervisor, and possibly one
more endorsement letter, must be sent by the endorsers as attachments to an
email message sent to the address dissertation-award@eatcs.org with subject
EATCS DDA 2025 endorsement. The name of the candidate should be clearly
specified in the message.

The dissertations will be selected by the following committee:

Standa Zivny (chair)
Petra Berenbrink
Loukas Georgiadis
Kasper Green Larsen
Emanuela Merelli

The award committee will solicit the opinion of members of the research
community as appropriate. Dissertations supervised by members of the selection
committee are not eligible. The EATCS is committed to equal opportunities, and
welcomes submissions of outstanding theses from all authors.

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