The 2025 ATLAS Thesis Award ceremony. From left to right: ATLAS Collaboration Board Chair Davide Constanzo; ATLAS Thesis Awards Committee Chair Jean-François Arguin; ATLAS Thesis Award winners Elena Mazzeo, Stephen Nicholas Swatman, Ryan Roberts, Elliot Watton, Antonio Jesús Gómez Delegido, Takumi Aoki and Simon Florian Koch; and ATLAS Spokesperson Stéphane Willocq. Not pictured: ATLAS Thesis Award winner Kartik Deepak Bhide. (Image: K. Anthony/CERN)
From physics analysis and detector operations to software development and upgrade work, ATLAS PhD students make critical contributions to the Collaboration's scientific mission while completing their degrees. This year's ATLAS Thesis Awards drew from more than 200 eligible theses, reflecting both the scale of the Collaboration and the breadth of student research. From this pool, the Thesis Awards Committee reviewed 36 formal applications before selecting eight winners.
This year's recipients are: Takumi Aoki from the University of Tokyo (Japan), Kartik Deepak Bhide from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany), Antonio Jesús Gómez Delegido from Universitat de València (Spain), Simon Florian Koch from the University of Oxford (UK), Elena Mazzeo from Università degli studi di Milano (Italy), Ryan Roberts from the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA), Stephen Nicholas Swatman from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Elliot Watton from the University of Glasgow and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK).
"Students are the 'soul' of the ATLAS Collaboration," said Jean‑François Arguin, ATLAS Thesis Awards Committee Chair. "They make up a third of ATLAS scientific authors and carry out much of the essential work that keeps ATLAS at the frontiers of scientific research. The quality and breadth of this year's nominations made the Committee's decision especially challenging, and we congratulate all nominees for their outstanding work."
