As every year the BPS offered several prizes to young scientists during the closing ceremony of the Scientific Meeting 2019. The winners of these prizes are:
- Best Master Thesis Prize in the academic year 2018-2019 (no ranking):
Jeroen Hustings (UHasselt): "Investigation of High-Spin Isomers in Neutron-Rich Indium Isotopes Using Collinear Resonance Ionisation Spectroscopy"
Tom Vieijra (UGent): "Machine learning approaches to strongly correlated spin systems"
Carl-Henrik Dahlqvist (UCLouvain): "Improvements for Solar Wind Exospheric model"
- Best Poster Presentation (ULB Scientific Meeting 2019):
1st Prize: Alessia Genaro (KULeuven), "A Compact Device for simultaneous dielectric spectroscopy and gravimetric analysis using quartz crystal microbalance under controlled humidity"
2nd Prize ex-aequo: Seppe Bormans (UHasselt), "Experimental validation of a biosensing technique which monitors thermal changes at the interface"
Elizabeth Rose Starling (ULB), "GE1/1 Sustained Operations Investigations"
- Young Speaker Contest:
1st prize: Daniela Mockler (ULB), "Measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum with the Pierre Auger Laboratory"
2nd prize: Johan Van Der Tol (KULeuven), "Cluster gasses: when the equipartition theorem loses its validity"
3rd prize: Marco Di Liberto (ULB), "Realization of Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Photonic Lattices"
Congratulations to the laureates !