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Eva Escribano wins the European Academic Tax Thesis Award 2018

Eva Escribano, Associate Professor of Tax Law in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), has been awarded with the European Academic Tax Thesis Award 2018.

This prize is jointly awarded by the European Commission and the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP), and recognizes the best tax doctoral or postdoctoral thesis defended in the previous year, in any language, and in any European University. The award ceremony took place last June 9 th in Zürich (Switzerland) on the occasion of EATLP annual congress. It was then followed by the presentation of the main outcomes of the thesis to the participants of the congress. Over the following few months, she will present her thesis to officials of the Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (European Commission) in Brussels (Belgium).

The thesis is entitled “ Jurisdiction to tax corporate income on the basis of a revised version of the benefit principle: a critical analysis of current paradigms underlying corporate income taxation and proposals for reform ”. It departs from the hypothesis that companies are increasingly able to report their profits for tax purposes in jurisdictions other than those that host their economic activities. A phenomenon that is commonly known as profit shifting. Firstly, the thesis intends to empirically demonstrate this phenomenon by means of a real case study (Apple) to further evaluate its significance and understand its causes. In particular, it seeks to assess how certain paradigms historically underlying the jurisdiction to tax corporate income have contributed to such phenomenon. Secondly, and departing from a proposed tax policy guideline (the so-called “revised version of the benefit principle”), it explores both the amendment and the abandonment of the aforementioned paradigms so as to counteract profit shifting opportunities. The author is currently finalizing the draft in view of its upcoming publication.

The thesis was both written and defended in English in the framework of the PhD Program in Law of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. It was supervised by Prof. Dr. Zornoza (Full Professor of Tax Law in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and evaluated by a panel composed by Prof. Dr. Brauner (Full Professor of Tax Law in University of Florida), Prof. Dr. García Prats (Full Professor of Tax Law in Universidad de Valencia) and Prof. Dr. Báez Moreno (Associate Professor of Tax Law in  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). The defense took place last September 6 th 2017, and the thesis obtained the highest grade (excellent cum laude) and the international mention.

Eva Escribano graduated in Law in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2007-2011) and further obtained a Master in Public Law in the same University (2012-2013). Between 2011 and 2012 she worked for the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD in Paris. She obtained the Scholarship for Academic Excellence granted by Comunidad de Madrid twice (2006 and 2007) and later the University Faculty Training Grant conferred by the Ministry of Education (2013-2017) to pursue her doctoral studies. During this period of time, she made research stays in the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (Netherlands, 2013), the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law of Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria, 2014) and the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (Germany, 2015 and 2016). To date, she has published various articles in prestigious international journals that have enjoyed a significant impact in the academic field.

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The ELFA Awards

In 2012 ELFA established for the first time an award for the Best Doctoral Thesis on European Law. The award was worth 3.000 € and it also included a proxime accessit prize. Since then, ELFA has been organising this award every year. The ELFA Thesis Awards seeks to stimulate and recognize outstanding legal research as well as creating more awareness of ELFA since it attracts a very high standard of applicants from numerous European countries.

So far, researchers at the University of Leiden, Bayreuth, Oxford, Cambridge, the European University Institute in Florence and the Maastricht University, among others have won the ELFA Best Award.

The thesis awarded have dealt with a number of issues in the field of European Law, considered in a broad sense. For instance, topics discussed the transformation of the Euro,  analysed the Private International Law of the EU and its Member States or dealt with the abuse of Union Law and the regulation of the Internal Market. Other thesis considered the regulation of mobility rights and the National Higher Education autonomy in the EU or the primacy of European Law and its constitutional identities.

ELFA AWARDS 2023

The ELFA awards are considered for doctoral thesis related to European law aspects, including comparative law aspects.

Any European jurist having his or her doctoral thesis / Ph.D.  defended and approved between the period 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023 is eligible. The Doctoral thesis may be written in any of the languages of the ELFA statutes (English, German, French or Spanish).

The deadline for submitting the application for the contest is 30 November 2023 .

The First Place Award is worth € 3,000.

The value of the proxime accessit award will be worth € 1,500.

However,  if the are equality of votes between two of the doctoral thesis submitted, both awarded doctors will share the amount and each one will be worth € 2.250.

The decision concerning the awards is decided by a jury consisting of three renowned academics that is selected by the ELFA board. The decision is final.

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The ELFA award is compatible with other awards that the candidate may have received for the thesis submitted.

The award does not involve the transfer of any publishing or intellectual property rights relating to the thesis.

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The attached theses should be a unique file in .doc (Word) or .odt (OpenDocument) format (not pdf), so that a blind version can be prepared and sent to the jury members.

Applications must be accompanied, in a separate document, by the author’s CV.

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ELFA awards are considered for doctoral thesis related to European law aspects, including comparative law aspects.

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The decision concerning the award is decided by a jury consisting of three renowned academics that is selected by the ELFA board. The decision is final.

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The winners of the 2023 ELFA Award were announced at the ELFA Annual Conference 2024, which took place on 17-19 April in Edinburgh.

Professor Laurence W. Gormley (University of Groningen), Coordinator of the Award and former ELFA President, announced the decision of the Jury, which this year was composed of Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (University of Groningen), Thomas Horsley (University of Liverpool) and Dagmar Schiek (University College Dublin).

The first prize was awarded, jointly, to two researchers. On one hand, to Mariza Avgeri, for her thesis A transgender studies approach to gender identity and expression- based asylum claims based on a critical doctrinal and discourse analysis of CJEU and ECtHR jurisprudence defended at Maynooth University (Ireland). Mariza Avgeri has worked as a legal researcher, as well as a case worker at the Greek Asylum Service and as a member of the Appeals Committees. She has participated in civil rights initiatives regarding migrant rights and LGBT rights, both as a lawyer and as a member of the queer community. Currently, she is an Associate Lecturer in Law at the Open University and a qualified lawyer in Greece.

On the other hand, the second joint first prize winner was Moritz Schramm, for his thesis Emulated Guardians: The Power, Politics, and Performativity of the DSA and the Oversight Board”, defended at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (Germany). Dr. Schramm is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the Guarini Institute for Global Law and Tech (University of New York). He contributes, from a multidisciplinary perspective ranging from public law, constitutional law or law and technology, among others, to the research and dissemination of legal knowledge as an author and editor in various legal publications, as well as through his participation -presenting or organizing- in scientific conferences and workshops.

In addition, the Jury decided to award a Proxime Accessit to Aurélie Villanueva, for her thesis Culture in European Union Law: Between Market and Society, defended at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Dr. Villanueva has developed an extensive academic career carrying out her education, research and teaching tasks at various university institutions, including the University of Strasbourg, Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, the European University Institute and Stockholm University. Dr. Villanueva is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen.

The Jury remarked on the high quality of all the theses that applied for the award (a total of 15), and noted the difficulty of reaching the final selection. The ELFA Board of Directors is deeply grateful to the Jury and the Award Coordinator for their invaluable and generous work in carrying forward one of the flagships of the Association. And, above all, many thanks to all the participants! The successful future of European law research is assured.

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The winners of the 2022 ELFA Award were announced at a ceremony held at the Association’s Annual General Meeting and Conference in Lausanne, on 13 April 2023.

The names were announced by Jivko Draganov, ELFA Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors, and Laurence Gormley, former ELFA President and coordinator of the ELFA Award.

First Prize was awarded to Dr. Sophia Ayada, for her thesis “From contesting gender stereotypes to questionning anti-stereotyping. A critical analysis of the CJEU gender equality jurisprudence”. Dr. Ayada obtained her Doctorate from the European University Institute (Florence). She is currently a research fellow at University College London.

The jury decided to award Proxime Acessit to Dr. Eun Hye Kim, for her thesis “The Advocate General as an Actor of Change – or Consolidation – in EU Competition Law”. Dr. Kim obtained her Doctorate from the European University Institute as well. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Law Department at the University of Copenhagen

The jury of the 2022 ELFA Award was composed of Dr. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Dr. Mark Dawson and Dr. Dagmar Schiek.

The quality of all the Doctoral theses presented is evidence of the high level of current research in European law.

Thank you very much to all participants!

2021 ELFA AWARD

The results of the 2021 edition of the ELFA Award were announced during the ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference held in Warsaw from 20 to 22 April 2022.

The announcement was made by Professor Laurence Gormley, Coordinator of the ELFA Award. First Prize was awarded to Dr. Leticia Díez Sánchez, for her thesis “Integration through Law and its Discontents: Unveiling the distributive impact of judge-made law in the EU”. Dr. Díez Sánchez obtained her Ph.D. in European Union Law from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy).

The Proxime Accessit was awarded to Dr. Aleksandra Jolkina, for her thesis “Till Residence Card Do Us Part? The Concept of Marriages of Convenience and EU Free Movement Law: The Case of the United Kingdom”. Dr. Jolkina obtained her Doctorate from Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom).

In this round, the Jury was composed of Professors Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Dagmar Schiek and Martin Trybus.

All of them were very impressed by the high quality of the theses submitted.

2020 ELFA AWARD

During the ELFA Annual General Meeting, on the 23rd June 2021, the results of the ELFA Thesis Award 2020 round were announced.

After having read the theses and discussed them, the jury has decided to award the First Place to Dr. Pierre Auriel, for his thesis “L’équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne”. Dr. Auriel obtained his Doctorate from the Institut Michel Villey, Centre de droit européen, Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the framework of the Egalibex Project at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3.

The jury decided to award Proxime Acessit to Dr. Luigi Lonardo, for his thesis “Coping with distinctiveness: common foreign and security policy in EU Law.” Dr. Lonardo obtained his Doctorate from King’s College London, and he is currently a Lecturer in EU law at University College Cork.

The members of the jury were Prof. Dr. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Prof. Dr. Sofia Raanchordás and Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schiek. They remarked on the high standard of all the theses submitted.

We are very grateful to everyone who participated!

2019 ELFA AWARD

“We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 ELFA Thesis Award Competition. We are grateful to all participants. The honorable jury was greatly impressed by the high quality of their entries. The jury, composed by Prof. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz and Prof. Harm Schepel, has decided to award the First Prize to Dr. Lola Avril, for her thesis, Le costume sous la robe. Les avocats en professionnels multi-cartes de l’état régulateur européen: genèse, consolidation, contestations (1957—2019) , defended at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

The jury decided to award Proxime Accessit to Dr. Andrej Lang, for his thesis, Die Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in der vernetzten Weltordnung. Rechtsprechungskoordination in rechtsordnungsübergreifenden Richternetzwerken. Dr. Lang obtained his Doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Many congratulations to the winners!

We would like to express our special thanks to the former President of ELFA, Prof. Laurence Gormley for his many years of outstanding contribution coordinating the ELFA Thesis Award competition.”

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2018 ELFA AWARD

The 2018 ELFA Award was announced at the 2019 ELFA Conference held in Turin.  The prizes were awarded unanimously by the jury.

The First Prize was awarded to Dr. Vestert Borger, from Leiden University, for his thesis entitled “The Transformation of the Euro: Law, Contract, Solidarity.”

The Proxime Accessit was granted to Dr. Felix M. Wilke from Bayreuth University, for his thesis “A Conceptual Analysis of the Private International Law of the European Union and its Member States.”

Congratulations to the winners!

ELFA AWARD 2017

The Winners of the 2017 Best Award on European Law have been announced! Francisco Joel Reyes y Ráfales and Zane Rasnača have been declared joint winners.

Francisco Joel defended his thesis at the Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. His thesis is entitled: “Unterschiedslose Beschränkungen des Warenexports in andere Mitgliedstaaten als Eingriffe in die EU-Warenverkehrsfreiheit gem. Art. 35 Alt. 2 AEUV?.”

Zane defended her thesis at the European University Institute of Florence, the title of which is “First or one among equals? The CJEU and the construction of EU social policy.”

ELFA AWARD 2016

At the ELFA Conference in Brno (Czech Republic), Dr. Alexander Hoogenboom from Maastricht University was awarded First Place for his thesis on “Balancing Student Mobility Rights and National Higher Education Autonomy in the European Union”.

Dr. Christina Joanna Angelopoulos from University of Cambridge was placed Proxime Accessit for her thesis on “European Intermediary Liability in Copyright”.

2014 ELFA AWARD

The second ELFA Thesis Award was announced at the European Parliament in Brussels and awarded to Dr. Anzhela Yevgenyeva, for her thesis Direct Taxation and the Internal Market: Assessing Possibilities for a More Balanced Integration, defended at the University of Oxford.

Proxime Accessit was Dr. Vesselin Paskalev, for his thesis The Power of Reason(s): Argumentative Rationality and EU Regulation, defended at the European University Institute, Florence.

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Rules and guidelines for the submission of entries for the ecsr prize for ecsr dissertation of the year.

The thesis must have been examined and been deemed to have passed between 1 January and 31 December each year. However, the doctorate need not have been officially conferred during this period.

Each ECSR full member institution can nominate ONLY ONE candidate for the prize. The candidacy must come via the ECSR official contact person or the Head of Department (or equivalent) of each member institution. Only full member institutions can nominate candidates for the prize, and the thesis nominated must have been submitted at that institution or at an affiliated university that grants the PhD. The prize will be awarded to the best theoretically based empirical study in sociology .

Submissions for the Prize should be made in PDF format to [email protected] by 5 February each year. Given the transformation period, the deadline will be moved to March, 5 in 2024.

The submission must comprise (as separate PDFs in attachment):

• an abstract in English of no more than 2000 words, outlining the main arguments of the work. The abstract should outline: a. the subject of the thesis; b. its main findings and arguments; c. its principal conclusions;
• the table of contents of the thesis, in English.

These documents will be used to select a short-list of three candidates. The authors of the short-listed theses will be asked to provide an electronic copy of their complete thesis so that the jury can make a decision regarding the assignation of the Prize.

The shortlisting will be made by the Executive Board of the ECSR consortium. The selection among the short-listed theses will be made by a jury that comprises a chair (appointed among the members of the ECSR board) plus two external members appointed among the member institutions. Where there is a short-listed thesis in a language in which the members of the jury lack appropriate competence, the ECSR Board will recruit an additional member with appropriate competence.

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The winner of the prize will be announced at the annual ECSR conference . If it is deemed that no thesis reaches an acceptable standard, the committee may decline to award the prize in any given year. The successful candidate will be awarded a prize of Euro 500 . The candidate will receive the prize at the ECSR’s Annual General Conference. Expenses to attend the prize giving will be paid for by the ECSR following the ECSR regulations/restrictions on travel and accommodation costs.

Winner of 2023

Dragana Stojmenovska, Men’s place. The Incomplete Integration of Women in Workplace Authority

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* Due to the exceptionally high quality of two PhD theses in this year, the prize was shared by two nominees.

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European Doctorate Label (Doctor Europaeus)

European Doctorate Label (Doctor Europaeus)

Published on 20/03/2022 - Updated on 24/11/2023

Recognizing the European dimension of a doctorate

The European PhD or European PhD is a label issued by the University, which applies to the national doctoral degree, already recognized internationally under the L.M.D. system, and which allows the recognition of the European dimension of the doctoral project.

This device adds recognition of a European dimension to the doctorate. It does not appear on the degree and is the subject of a separate document: an attestation. The attestation is issued by the University and signed by its President.

The attestation is issued by the University.

Conditions for awarding the European Doctorate label

The European Doctorate is a label that can be awarded upon request in addition to the doctoral degree when the thesis was prepared, in part, during a stay in a European Union country.

It concerns doctoral students enrolled in doctoral studies in higher education institutions in member countries of the European Community, extended to other states of the European Free Trade Association (Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Lichtenstein).

All European Community institutions authorized to award a doctorate may issue the "European label" at the time of the thesis defense provided several conditions are met.

To obtain this label, the following four conditions must be met :

• The doctorate must have been prepared, in part, during a stay of at least three months in another European state.
• Authorization to defend is granted on the basis of reports written by at least two professors or equivalent belonging to two higher education institutions in two European states other than the one in which the doctorate is defended.
• At least one member of the jury must belong to a higher education institution in a European state other than the one in which the doctorate is defended.
• Part of the defense must be conducted in a European national language other than the national language(s) of the country where the PhD is defended.

The choice of rapporteurs and the composition of the defense jury must be in accordance with the rules of the ED and with the decree of May 25, 2016 setting the national framework of training and the modalities leading to the award of the national doctoral degree.

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• Order of May 25, 2016 setting the national framework for training and the proce…

Practical details of the award

The application for the European label can be made at the end of the doctorate, if the doctoral student meets the 4 conditions and is able to provide a certificate of his stay of at least 3 months in another European state than France.

The doctoral student must submit 2 months before the defense, to the Doctoral School with the request for authorization of the composition of the jury by the Thesis Director:

The minutes of the defense indicate that the jury grants the label European Doctorate and the defense report mentions in which other language of a European state other than French, a part of the defense was carried out.

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Best Thesis Award

Each year, the Centre for European Studies announces a Best Thesis Award for best essay with a connection to Europe. The current nomination period for the 2024 award runs until 6 September 2024.

The prize is awarded a bachelor's or master's (one- or two-year) thesis that has received the highest grade at one of the following faculties at Lund University: Humanities and Theology, Social Science, Law, and the School of Economics and Management. The essay also needs to have a clear connection to Europe or the EU, and should not solely focus on issues within a single state in Europe.

Supervisors, examiners, and heads of department may nominate theses. Self-nominations are also accepted. In addition to the thesis itself, the nomination should include a short letter of recommendation describing the strengths of the thesis. If the thesis is self-nominated, the author must submit a CV and the letter of recommendation must be written by the thesis supervisor.

Information about the Best Thesis Award and the nomination process is posted on our website and sent out through our mailing list, which you can subscribe to here .

The deadline for the current nomination period is  September 6, 2024 . Fill out the following webform to nominate a thesis: Nomination webform.  

The winning thesis is chosen by a jury appointed by the Centre for European Studies. The winner is awarded 10 000 SEK. The jury may also decide to give a second thesis an honourable mention.

If you have any questions, please contact Maria Strömvik ( maria [dot] stromvik [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se ).

ELLIS PhD Award

ELLIS has established the ELLIS PhD Award to recognize and encourage outstanding research achievements during the dissertation phase in artificial intelligence and machine learning related fields (including computer vision and robotics). The ELLIS PhD Award is sponsored by the Kühborth Stiftung GmbH. Each awardee will receive Euro 2,500 prize money. Typically, there will be two awards per calendar year, one given to a female researcher and one to a male researcher.

The deadline for nominating a dissertation for the year 2023 is:

• April 15, 2024 (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth)

Eligibility

Any European dissertation in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning related fields (including computer vision and robotics) that has been defended in 2023 can be nominated. A dissertation is considered European if the dissertation has been performed primarily at a European research institution.

Selection Criteria

Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution and potential impact on theory and practice.

How to Nominate

The nomination (self-nominations by the author of the dissertation are not allowed) must include:

• A short summary (1-3 pages) of the main research achievements of the dissertation
• 2-3 of the most important publications resulting from the dissertation
• A scan of the dissertation certificate (which includes the date of the defense)
• Final version of the dissertation as pdf (or link to pdf)
• The candidate's CV
• A short laudation (40-80 words)

Please use this template (pdf) (latex)  to nominate a candidate and send the nomination (preferably as a single pdf file) to [email protected] . The awards will be given during an ELLIS event in 2024. If you should have any questions, please send an email to [email protected] .

Kühborth Stiftung GmbH

Kühborth Stiftung GmbH is a foundation established by Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Kühborth and his wife Helga Kühborth to promote research and teaching in the fields of natural, technical and economic sciences. It was for this purpose that the founders transferred their shares of Klein Pumpen GmbH (today: Johannes und Jacob Klein GmbH) to the Kühborth Stiftung in 1994. Johannes und Jacob Klein GmbH holds more than 80 percent of the ordinary shares of KSB SE & Co. KGaA, one of the world's leading manufacturers of pumps and valves.

By sponsoring the ELLIS PhD Award, the Kühborth Stiftung aims

• to support advances in artificial intelligence, one of the key technologies of the foreseeable future, 
• to promote academic excellence, and 
• to propagate the European idea.

ELLIS PhD Awardees  

ELLIS PhD Awardees 2023

Pepa Atanasova (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Dissertation title: 'Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text' Entrusting machines with the responsibility of performing complex reasoning tasks such as fact-checking makes it imperative that we understand how they arrive at their conclusions. The publications in Pepa's thesis collectively contribute to advancing the state of the art of accountable and transparent machine learning (ML) for complex reasoning over text.The methodological contributions of the thesis in the area of accountability enable the automated generation of challenge and adversarial datasets revealing important insights about models' flaws and capabilitites. In the area of explainability, the most noteworthy scientific outcomes include the proposed novel task of generating free-text explanations for fact checking predictions together with the first method for the task. Finally, the thesis contributes with explainability diagnostics, which are further optimised in the generated explanations, thus improving explanation quality. Read more here .

Robert Geirhos (University of Tübingen) Dissertation title: ' To err is human? A functional comparison of human and machine decision-making' "Do machines see the world like humans?" - Robert Geirhos' interdisciplinary dissertation pioneered quantitative analysis methods for comparing human and machine perception. His research has challenged widespread assumptions about how machines see the world and led to the following insights: ML models recognize objects by their texture (rather than by shape like humans), they often exploit simple shortcuts instead of learning the intended solution, and they make very different errors compared to humans. Despite these differences, the gap between human and machine vision is steadily narrowing - a development that can be tracked using the Open Source benchmarks developed in this thesis. By stress-testing the limits and biases of machine learning models, Robert Geirhos' dissertation underscores the critical importance of understanding how machines perceive the world around us. Read more here .

ELLIS PhD Awardees 2022

Mathilde Caron (Facebook AI Research & Inria Grenoble) Dissertation title: ‘Self-Supervised Learning of Deep Visual Representations’ Mathilde Caron focused on creating learning machines that provide the ability to solve visual recognition tasks without relying on annotated data. The fundamental idea: Humans and many animals can see the world and understand it effortlessly, which gives hope that visual perception could be realised by computers and AI. More importantly, living beings acquire such an understanding of the visual world autonomously without the intervention of a supervisor explicitly telling them what is to be seen. This suggests that visual perception can be achieved without too much explicit human supervision, but simply by letting systems observe large amounts of visual inputs. Mathilde Caron tackles the problem of self-supervised learning which consists in training deep neural networks without using any human annotations. Read more here .

Taco Cohen (University of Amsterdam) Dissertation title: ‘Equivariant convolutional networks’ Taco Cohen focused on improving the statistical efficiency of neural networks by enabling them to exploit the symmetries of learning problems. The underlying problem: While human beings and other intelligent animals have the ability to learn new skills and concepts very quickly, current machine learning systems that are able to acquire basic motor skills and perceptual capabilities require a very large amount of training data to do so. Because of this limited ability to generalise, the long tail of ML problems remains inaccessible. Taco Cohen explores ways to leverage symmetries to improve the ability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and other kinds of neural networks to generalise from relatively small samples. Read more here .

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And the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for 2024 goes to …

• In Community
• 13:15, 18 Jun 2024

As revealed during the 2024 University of Malta Research Expo , which saw more than 200 original pieces of research being shared with the UM community, and following nominations by the Boards of Examiners for the Ph.D. theses submitted at UM in 2023/24, the University’s Doctoral School Board has, for the first time ever, selected and awarded two Outstanding Doctoral Theses.

This year’s awardees are Dr Ing. Ryan Bugeja (in the STEM category) and Dr Thérésia Penda Choppy (in the Humanities and Social Sciences category).

Dr Ing. Bugeja, who is a member of the Institute for Sustainable Energy, researched Wave Response Modelling and Innovative Cooling Technologies for Offshore Photovoltaics, under the supervision of Prof. Luciano Mule’ Stagno .

His thesis was found to be “original in conceptual thought, leading to two key innovations with industry applications in the field of offshore solar research, namely the development of a novel modelling software tool – Offshore Solar Irradiance Calculator (OSIC), and the production of a patented back cooling system for photovoltaic modules – IPCoSy concept. Funding was obtained for this research, and a patent was awarded for part of the work.

“I am grateful for this recognition, not just because it further validates my work in the field of sustainable energy, which will allow some to make better choices for our planet and future generations, but also because it gives me an extra push towards developing the thesis further and possibly pursuing licensing and commercialisation”, said Dr Ing. Bugeja.

As a member of the Islands and Small States Institute, Dr Choppy studied about  Creolization and Identity in Seychellois Creole Folktales under the supervision of Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino , Prof. Ray Fabri and Prof. Dominique Lanni.

Whilst being elegant in prose and narrative, Dr Choppy’s thesis was found to be “engaging in so far as it seamlessly connected theory with practice.” Her thesis looked at oral folk tales from the Seychelles as insights into issues of interest to a wide audience, including multiculturality, colonialism and power relations, with their nuanced expressions of social class, religion, race and ethnicity. The work did not require corrections and produced several scholarly publications of note.

“Being part of ISSI and having such a solid support system at the University of Malta has been an absolute blessing. It has allowed me to explore my interests at length and depth, and this is just the beginning. Stay tuned because there’s more to come!”, Dr Choppy commented. 

Certificates together with a cash prize of €500 was presented to each of the awardees.

On behalf of the entire University, the Doctoral School wishes to congratulate the two awardees for their excellent efforts!

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