BPS Contests

BEST MASTER THESIS CONTEST 2024

The Belgian Physical Society (BPS) awards annually three Scientific Prizes to reward the best master thesis in the field of physics. The prizes will be announced at the annual Scientific Meeting 2024 of the Belgian Physical Society on May 29th, 2024 at the VUB (Save The Date !).

This competition is open to students who defended their master thesis in 2023. The detailed regulations and the application form to be filled in by the student can be downloaded from:

    Please note that the deadline for submitting the required documents is 15th December 2023, and should be sent to the following email address: bps.master.prize@gmail.com.

    Laureates 2024

    LaureateAffiliationTitle
    Annys Arno
    		UAntwerpen

    Deep learning voor automatische materiaalidentificatie in elektronen energieverlies spectroscopie

    Liefsoens Michaël 
    		KULeuven

    Revealing DNA’s topology A spectral energy approach to loop detection

    Mele Lea 
    		UMons

    Carrollian fermions coupled to gravity


    Laureates 2023

    LaureateAffiliationTitle
    Carmans Boo  
    		UHasselt

    Hybrid spin registers in NV centers: A testbed for studying quantum thermodynamic phenomena and their derived applications

    Dewettinck Wout 
    		UGent

    Directed graph mapping can discriminate between a line of block and a real reentry loop, a feature phase mapping lacks

    Wouters Thibeau 
    		KULeuven

    Holographic RG flows in gauged supergravity


    (No prize in 2022)

    Laureates 2021

    LaureateAffiliationTitle
    de Kemmeter Jean-François 
    		UCLouvain

    Fluctuations et courbes arctiques dans le modèle à 6 vertex

    Marinkovic Stefan 
    		ULiège

    Direct Visualization of Current-Stimulated Oxygen Migration in YBa2Cu3O7−δ Thin Films

    Quintelier Matthias 
    		UAntwerpen

    Het potentieel van de TEM voor onderzoek naar gecorreleerde wanorde in materialen door een diepgaande studie van Ge4Bi2Te7 met behulp van 3DED, STEM en EDX

    Laureates 2020

    LaureateAffiliationTitle
    Fernandes Lennart 
    		UAntwerpen

    Statistische fysica van economische ongelijkheid en segregatie

    Honet Antoine 
    		ULB

    Mécanisme Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati-Shifman et l’électrodynamique quantique à (2+1) dimensions : application à un modèle d’exciton dans le graphène

    Parmentier Klaas 
    		KULeuven
    		Black Holes and Duality - an attractor mechanism for the metric