IMCN Thesis Award

The award is granted each calendar year. Applications are submitted by the candidates themselves. Thesis supervisors who consider that a student performed high quality research are invited to encourage him/her to submit an application. In order to be eligible for the award, applicants must comply with the following requirements : at least one of the co-supervisors must be a member of IMCN officially (« membre affecté »), and the PhD thesis must have been publicly defended during the previous calendar year. Complete applications must be submitted by the end of February following the defense year, and the winner will be selected by the end of April / beginning of May. The IMCN Executive Board appoints the selection committee members in order to properly cover the Institute’s research themes. The selection committee is composed of a President (Emeritus Professor if possible), the IMCN research vice-president, and 5-6 members coming from the three IMCN divisions (BSMA, MOST, NAPS) in order to equitably represent the research topics of the Institute. (Co-)Directors of submitted theses may not be members of the selection committee.

Prior to the selection meeting, each member of the selection committee will have to inform the President about the ranking of each application (from 1-5) regarding the six quality criteria mentioned below. Depending on the level of scientific excellence of the applications, the jury may decide not to grant the prize. If only a small number of applications are received, the jury may also decide to postpone the grant to the following year.