THESIS AWARDS

1st  PhD Thesis Award: Laura Frances Soriano 

2nd PhD Thesis Award: Haichun Liu


POSTER AWARDS
 

1st place prize Best Poster Award: Susanne Märkl

2nd place prize Best Poster Award: Christian Homann

3rd  place prize Best Poster Award: Diego Mendez González


4rd  place prize Best Poster Award: Daniel Cuaran Acosta

5th place prize Best Poster Award: Uliana Kostiv

 

The Local Organizer of “The 2nd Conference and Spring School on Properties, Design and Applications of Upconversion Nanomaterials (UPCON18)” has established different prizes to recognize promising young researchers in the field of upconversion nanomaterials.

The prizes will be sponsored by Nanomaterials-Open Access Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and GRUFO (Grupo Especializado de Fotoquimica de la Real Sociedad Española de Química). The jury, composed of the members of the Scientific Committee of UPCON18, will attribute the following:

 

  • UPCON18 Best PhD Thesis Awards

The 1st prize is generously provided by Nanomaterials and the 2nd prize is generously provided by the GRUFO. The Best PhD thesis selection will be announced at the Conference dinner.

The Best PhD awards will consist of:

  1. First prize: 300 €
  2. Second prize: 200 €

An official certificate will also be awarded

JURY: The UPCON18 Scientific Committee

 

ELEGIBILITY:

- The candidate will participate at the UPCON18 and the supervisor must be a member of the COST Action CM1403.

- The candidate must have defended her/his PhD thesis before the deadline.

- The PhD thesis should be based on upconversion nanomaterials.

The Scientific Committee of UPCON18 will evaluate the participants using the following criteria:

- Quality of publications based on upconversion nanomaterials

- Oral communications at conferences

- Other publications

- Other activities (outreach activities, poster presentations, prizes/grants…)

Participants wanting to apply for this award must submit a brief CV (1 – max. 2 pages) in pdf to maria.gonzalez@uv.es, before March, 28. The CV should include the PhD title and the supervisor’s name.  The papers emerged from the PhD thesis should be highlighted.

 

  • UPCON18 Poster Awards

The prizes are generously provided by the GRUFO. The Best Poster selection will be announced at the Conference dinner.

During UPCON18 the Scientific Committee will select the best posters presented by a student during the poster sessions. The selection will be based on quality and originality of the research, quality and thoroughness of the methods and analysis of the work presented, style and originality of the poster layout.

  1. First place prize: 150 €
  2. Second place prize: 125 €
  3. Third place prize: 125 €
  4. Fourth place prize: 100 €
  5. Fifth place prize: 100 €

An official certificate will also be awarded

 

APPLICATION FORM FOR BEST PHD THESIS AWARD IN UPCONVERSION NANOMATERIALS (click here)

Please complete this form and send it with the short CV by the closing date of March 28, 2018 to:  maria.gonzalez@uv.es

 

 

 

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