CMS PhD Thesis Award winners 2023

Each year, the CMS collaboration honours the work of exceptional PhD students with the Thesis Award. This award recognises doctoral research conducted within the collaboration that pushes the boundaries of high-energy physics. Out of a highly competitive pool of 27 nominees, the winners of the 2023 CMS PhD Thesis Award are Jona Motta (LLR, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Christopher Edward Brown (Imperial College London) and Spandan Mondal (RWTH Aachen University, Germany).

“Doctoral students do a lot of impressive work in CMS. Writing a PhD thesis to document this work is a tremendous effort and achievement. Some of the students decide to invest substantial extra efforts in writing an exceptionally clear, effective and original documentation of their research work. They write for their peers, future students, who will follow in their steps, and for all those in search of in-depth, detailed, accurate but also accessible knowledge related to CMS scientific or technical frontline research,” says Marta Felcini, chair of the CMS PhD Thesis Award Committee.

Read more about the winners on the CMS website.

CMS Award winners 2023

Each year since 2000, the CMS Awards Committee has recognised outstanding contributions from members of the CMS collaboration, honouring their dedication to the experiment. Nominations can be made by any CMS member for exceptional work in various fields, and the winners are selected by a dedicated committee.

“This year, the CMS Awards celebrate the hard work that was done by our collaborators both on the operations and on the upgrades to ensure the success of the present and future detector,” say the CMS Awards Committee Chairs.

As well as the 50 award winners, the RD53 collaboration was singled out by CMS for special recognition. This dedicated group is responsible for the development of the ATLAS and CMS Phase 2 inner tracker readout chips.

Find out more about the collaboration and each of the 50 awardees on the CMS website.