Graduate Student Awards
Oxford Particle Physics is proud to celebrate the achievement and the potential of our graduate students.
National and International Prizes
2026 Springer Thesis Prize: Gregor Erbewin - "Wafer-Scale Stitched CMOS Pixel Sensors: Characterisation and Detector Performance Studies for ALICE ITS3"
2026 Alice Collaboration Thesis Prize: Gregor Erbewin - "Wafer-Scale Stitched CMOS Pixel Sensors: Characterisation and Detector Performance Studies for ALICE ITS3"
2024 Springer Thesis Prize: Martin Tat - "Model-independent measurement of the CKM angle γ in B±→ [h+h−π+π−]Dh′± (h = K, π) decays at LHCb and BESIII"
2022 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award: Maria Mironova - "Search for Higgs Boson decays to charm quarks with the ATLAS experiment and development of novel silicon pixel detectors"
2021 Springer Thesis Prize: Cecilia Tosciri - "Machine Learning Applications and Observation of Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks with the ATLAS Detector"
2020 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award: Luigi Marchese - "Muon Reconstruction Performance and Constraints on Off-shell Higgs Boson Production and the Higgs Boson Total Width with the ATLAS Detector and Charm Production at Low Transverse Momentum with the CDF Detector"
2020 ATLAS Collaboration Thesis Award: Cecilia Tosciri - "Machine Learning Applications and Observation of Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks with the ATLAS Detector"
2019 Springer Thesis Prize: Tomislav Vladisavljevic - "Predicting the T2K Neutrino Flux and Measuring Oscillation Parameters"
2018 LHCb Collaboration Thesis Prize: Tim Evans - "Studies of the decays D0→K∓π±π±π∓ at CLEO-c and LHCb"
2017 Springer Thesis Prize: Kirsty Duffy - "Measurement of the neutrino oscillation parameters sin2θ23, ∆m232, sin2θ13, and δCP in neutrino and antineutrino oscillation at T2K"
2017 LHCb Collaboration Thesis Prize: Ollie Lupton - "Studies of D0→K0Sh+h'– decays at the LHCb experiment"
22016 Springer Thesis Prize: Mireia Crispin Ortuzar - "High Jet Multiplicity Physics at the LHC"
2015 Springer Thesis Prize: David Hall - "Discovery and Measurement of the Higgs Boson in the WW Decay Channel"
2014 Springer Thesis Prize: Hamish Gordon - "Searches for CP violation in D+→K−K+π+ decay at the LHCb Experiment"
2012 Springer Thesis Prize: Paolo Gandini - "Observation of CP Violation in B± → DK± Decays"
Departmental prizes
Denys Wilkinson Prize for outstanding promise:
2026: George Lin Shaoze (LHCb)
2025: Nathan Baudis (T2K)
2024: Yiwen Yang (T2K)
2023: Weijun Li (T2K)
2022: Giulio Villani (Detector development)
2021: Fidan Suljik (LHCb)
2020: Luke Scantlebury-Smead (LHCb)
2019: Laurence Cook (atmospheric neutrinos)
2018: Hannah Pullen (LHCb)
2017: Luigi Marchese (ATLAS)
2016: Anita Nandi (LHCb)
Don Perkins Prize for exceptional progress:
2026: María Luisa Velázquez Fernández (MicroBooNE)
2025: Benjamin Gladwyn (ATLAS)
2024: David Vico Benet (LHCb)
2023: Simon Koch (ATLAS)
2022: Martin Tat (LHCb)
2021: Iza Veliscek (ATLAS)
2020: Philipp Windischhofer (ATLAS)
2019: Maria-Giovanna Foti (ATLAS)
2018: Luca Ambroz (ATLAS)
2017: Marco Del Tutto (MicroBooNE)
2016: David Coplowe (T2K)
John Adams Prize for meritorious performance in accelerator science:
2026: Meg Savage (Plasma wakefield Accelerators) & Francesco Straniero (ISIS)
2025: Sabrina Wang (VHEE FLASH radiotherapy)
2024: Corey Lehmann (Beam Loss Monitoring)
2023: Gregor Eberwein (Alice)
2022: Peter Griffin-Hicks (ISIS)
2021: Collette Pakuza (Plasma wakefield experiment - AWAKE)
2020: Aimee Ross (Plasma wakefield Accelerators)
2019: Alexander Picksley (Plasma wakefield Accelerators)
2018: Lucy Martin (High intensity beams - IBEX)
2017: -
2016: Robert Shalloo (Laser plasma acceleration)