PhD prizes
Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Outstanding PhD Thesis
This prize runs from March - Febuary and is awarded to the PhD student(s) who produce outstanding doctoral thesis during the academic year. Supervisors are able to nominate their graduated students, who will then be put forward to the Awards Panel for consideration.
Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award
Most promising doctoral work
Awarded to an EEE PhD student based on merit after a formal assessment of their progress at the Late Stage Review (LSR) milestone. The prize year runs from March - February.
The award is given to the most promising PhD work as judged at the time of LSR. The research achievements so far; the expected original contributions, the future plan quality, and the level of research engagement (publications and external presentations) are the criteria taken into account for the award.
Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
This award runs each academic year and the nominee must be a research student who has acted as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Qualities such as quality of teaching, approachability, engagement and motivation and impact on student learning will be considered.
The nominee will be named as the Department GTA of the Year and will be shortlisted for the Faculty of Engineering GTA of the Year Award.
Previous winners
2017/2018 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize
Dr Tobias Fischer, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris
Dr Hailing Fu, supervised by Prof Eric Yeatman
Dr Alberto Padoan, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolf
- GTA of the Year
Dr Adian Hogg
2018/2019 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Dr Tobias Fischer, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris
Dr Hailing Fu, supervised by Prof Eric Yeatman
Dr Alberto Padoan, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolfi
- Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
Dr Mark Zolotas
2019/2020 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Dr Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, supervised by Prof Deniz Gunduz
Dr Xin Xiang, supervised by Prof Tim Green
Dr Juan Arteaga Saenz, supervised by Prof Paul Mitcheson
- Graduate Teaching Assistant of the year
Dr Dylan Auty
2020/2021 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Dr Jochen Cremer, supervised by Prof Goran Strbac
Dr Xin Deng, supervised by Prof Pier Luigi Dragotti
- GTA of the Year
Dr Eugenie Ducoin
2021/2022 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Dr Jochen Cremer, supervised by Prof Goran Strbac
Dr Xin Deng, supervised by Prof Pier Luigi Dragotti
- Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award
Dr Taiyu Zhu, supervised by Prof Pantelis Georgiou
- GTA of the Year
Dr Roxana Irina Alexandru
2022/2023 cohort
- Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize
Dr Kaiwen Chen, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolfi
- Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award
Dr Muhammad Haziq Bin Razali, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris
- GTA of the Year
TBC