PhD Prize

The Panda PhD Prize is an award for the best Panda related PhD thesis of the current year.
For more information about the procedure and how to take part have a look at the PhD Prize Rules.

The first time the prize was awarded in 2013 and since it went to:

2022	Jenny Regina	GSI, Germany	Time for Hyperons - Development of Software Tools for Reconstructing Hyperons at PANDA and HADES
2021	Oliver Noll	Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Germany	Digital Signal Processing for the Measurement of Particle Properties with the PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter
2020	Walter Ikegami Andersson	Uppsala University, Sweden	Exploring the Merits and Challenges of Hyperon Physics
2019	Silke Grieser	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany	Cluster-Jet Targets for the PANDA-, MAGIX-, and CryoFlash-Experiments at Hadron-, Lepton-, and Laser-Facilities
2018	Mustafa Schmidt	Univ. Giessen, Germany	Particle identification with the Endcap Disc DIRC for PANDA
2017	Erik Etzelmueller	Univ. Giessen, Germany	Developments towards the Technical Design and Prototype Evaluation of the PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC
2016	Stefan Diehl	Univ. Giessen, Germany	Optimization of the Influence of Longitudinal and Lateral Non-Uniformity on the Performance of an Electromagnetic Calorimeter
2015	Andreas Herten	FZ Jülich, Germany	GPU-based Online Track Reconstruction for PANDA and Application to the Analysis of D→Kππ
2014	Simone Bianco	Univ. Bonn, Germany	Tracking and vertex reconstruction with the PANDA Micro-Vertex-Detector
2013	Ganesh Tambave	KVI Groningen, the Netherlands	Electromagnetic Calorimeter Studies for Charmonium Physics