2021 Thesis Prize: 17 PhD graduates honoured by the University of Luxembourg

29 December 2021

Excellent Thesis Award.

The University of Luxembourg held its annual PhD graduation Ceremony on 17 December on Belval Campus. The celebration honoured the doctoral and award-winning graduates who received their diplomas and awards on stage.

More than 150 doctoral students graduated from the four doctoral schools of the University of Luxembourg.

Seventeen doctoral graduates received special recognition for their thesis work, considered to be of exceptional quality. One graduate was awarded with the Fondation Auguste Laval Prize.

Recognising the scientific excellence of PhD students

The University of Luxembourg grants Excellent Thesis Awards to honour doctoral graduates who have demonstrated excellence, originality and depth of knowledge in their thesis.

This year, 17 graduates have received this award:

Excellent Thesis Awardees from Doctoral School in Science and Engineering

Jérémie Dauphin

Thesis: Argument Acceptance and Commitment in Formal Argumentation

Khouloud Gaaloul

Thesis: Verification of design models of cyber-physical systems specified in Simulink

Alirez Haqiqatnejad

Thesis: Enhanced Signal Space Design for Multiuser MIMO Interference Channels

Susana Martinez Arbas  

Thesis: Integrated multi-omic analyses of mobile genetic elements within a mixed microbial community

Cosme Milesi-Brault

Thesis: Old and New Antiferroelectrics: Experimental studies of phase transitions in model materials

Yamila Omar

Thesis: Complex Network in manufacturing suitability and interpretation

Martin Stöhr

Thesis: van der Waals Dispersion Interactions in Biomolecular Systems: Quantum-Mechanical Insights and Methodological Advances

Cui Su

Thesis: Scalable Control of Asynchronous Boolean Networks

Emiliano Torti

Thesis: On reductions of local and global Galois representations modulo prime powers

Valentino Vigneri

Thesis: Load bearing mechanisms of headed stud shear connections in profiled steel sheeting transverse to the beam

Hannah Wurzer

Thesis: Tumour immune evasion is promoted by actin cytoskeleton-driven polarization of inhibitory signals to the immunological synapse

Excellent Thesis Awardees from Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences

Verena Distler

Thesis: The Experience of Security in Human-Computer Interactions: Understanding Security Perceptions Through the Concept of User Experience

Christina Haas

Thesis: Higher education trajectories and social origin in Germany and the United States: A comparative sequence-analytical approach

Christine Ruppert

Thesis: Die frühkaiserzeitliche Grabarchitektur aus Orolaunum vicus/Arlon: Rekonstruktion und Kontextualisierung der Grabbauten einer lokalen Elite

Vitus Sproten

Thesis: Der Klang des Strukturwandels. Die Geschichte der freien Radios in den Niederlanden, Belgien und Nordrhein-Westfalen (1975-1990)

Excellent Thesis Awardee from Doctoral School in Economics, Finance and Management

Rana Cömertpay

Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Forced Displacement and Conflict

Excellent Thesis Awardee from Doctoral School of Law

Teresa Quintel

Thesis: Managing migration flows by processing personal data within the adequate data protection instrument. Scoping exercise between general and law enforcement data protection rules applicable to third country nationals

The Fondation Auguste Laval Prize was awarded to Tài Nguyen for his thesis on “magnetoelectric thin-film composites for energy harvesting applications”.