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The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2020 are:

• Christina Agapopoulou (University of Paris-Saclay): Research of Supersymmetry with the ATLAS detector and development of the High Granularity Timing Detector
• Milene Calvetti (University of Pisa): Studies on H → bb decay and VH production with the ATLAS detector
• Jennet Dickinson (University of California, Berkeley): ATLAS Measurements of the Higgs Boson Coupling to the Top Quark in the Higgs to Diphoton Decay Channel
• Kurt Hill (University of Colorado, Boulder): Investigations of p+Pb Collisions at Perturbative and Non-Perturbative QCD Scales
• Luigi Marchese (University of Oxford): Muon Reconstruction Performance and Constraints on Off-shell Higgs Boson Production and the Higgs Boson Total Width with the ATLAS Detector and Charm Production at Low Transverse Momentum with the CDF Detector
• Cristiano David Sebastiani (University of Rome “La Sapienza”): Through the looking glass and what ATLAS found there: a Dark Sector search for light Dark Matter
• Cecilia Tosciri (University of Oxford): Machine Learning Applications and Observation of Higgs Boson Decays into a Pair of Bottom Quarks with the ATLAS Detector
• Marco Valente (University of Geneva): Supersymmetric Beasts and Where to Find Them: From Novel Hadronic Reconstruction Methods to Search Results in Large Jet Multiplicity Final States at the ATLAS Experiment

See the News Article on the 2020 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2010 are:

• Michael Duehrssen (Freiburg, Germany) - Study of Higgs bosons in the WW final state and development of a fast calorimeter simulation for the ATLAS experiment​
• Carlos Solans Sanchez (Instituto de Física Corpuscular Valencia, Spain) - Implementation of the ROD Crate DAQ Software for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter and a Search for a MSSM Higgs Boson Decaying into Tau Pairs
• Zachary L Marshall (California Institute of Technology, USA) - A Measurement of Jet Shapes in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2011 are:

• Michael Hance (Pennsylvania University, USA) - Measurement of Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
• David Lopez Mateos (California Institute of Technology, USA) - Measurement of Multi-jet Production Cross Section at a Center-of-Mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Detector
• David W. Miller (SLAC, USA) - Measurement of Hadronic Event Shapes and Jet Substructure in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7.0 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider
• Christian Ohm (Stockholm University) - Searches for exotic stable massive particles with the ATLAS experiment
• Verena Martinez Outschoorn (Harvard University) - Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry of W Bosons Produced in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2012 are:

• Aaron Angerami (Columbia University, USA) - Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC
• Paolo Francavilla (Università di Pisa, Italy) - Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Anna Henrichs (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) - Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Pair Production Cross Section in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Experiment
• Eleni Mountricha (National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and CEA de Saclay, France) - Search for the H → ZZ* → 4ℓ channel with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC leading to the observation of a new particle compatible with the Higgs boson
• Yasuyuki Okumura (Nagoya University, Japan) - The top-­quark pair production cross-section measurement in the dilpeton final state at proton-proton collisions with √s=7 TeV

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2013 are:

• John Alison (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - The Road to Discovery : Detector Alignment, Electron Identification, Particle Misidentification, WW Physics, and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
• Teng-Jian Khoo (University of Cambridge, UK) - The hunting of the squark: Experimental strategies in the search for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
• Julien Maurer (Aix-Marseille University and Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France) - Mesure des performances de reconstruction des électrons et recherche de Supersymétriedans les canaux avec deux leptons de même charge dans les données du détecteur ATLAS
• Christopher J. Meyer (University of Chicago, USA) - Measurement of Dijet Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at 7 TeV Center-of-Mass Energy Using the ATLAS Detector
• Kristof Schmieden (University of Bonn, Germany) - Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle and the Spin of the Gluon from Angular Distributions in the Reaction pp-->Z/γ* --> μ+μ-+X with ATLAS

See the News Article on the 2013 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2014 are:

• Andrew Chisholm (University of Birmingham, UK) - Measurements of the chi_c and chi_b quarkonium states in pp collisions with the ATLAS experiment
• Kun Liu (Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France, and the University of Science and Technology of China) - Observation of the Higgs particle in diphoton events and search for the Higgs particle in Zgamma events at ATLAS
• Marcus Morgenstern (Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany) - Search for heavy resonances decaying into the fully hadronic di-tau final state
• Priscilla Pani (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) - To the bottom of the stop: Calibration of bottom-quark jets identification algorithms and search for scalar top-quarks and dark matter with the Run 1 ATLAS data
• Dennis Perepelitsa (Columbia University, USA) - Inclusive jet production in ultrarelativistic proton-nucleus collisions
• James Saxon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Discovery of the Higgs Boson, Measurements of its Production, and a Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production

See the News Article on the 2014 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2015 are:

• Javier Montejo Berlingen (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) - Search for new physics in ttbar final states with additional heavy-flavor jets with the ATLAS detector
• Ruth Pöttgen (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) - Search for Dark Matter in events with a highly energetic jet and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at sqrt (s)= 8TeV with the ATLAS Detector
• Nils Ruthmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Germany) - Search for the Standard Model Higgs to tau+ tau- decays in the lepton-hadron final state in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• Steven Schramm (University of Toronto, Canada) - Searching for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector in Events with an Energetic Jet and Large Missing Transverse Momentum

See the News Article on the 2015 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2016 are:

• Miguel Arratia (University of Cambridge, UK) - Studies of radiation damage in silicon sensors and a measurement of the inelastic proton–proton cross-section at 13 TeV
• Kurt Brendlinger (University of Pennsylvania, USA) - Physics with Electrons in the ATLAS Detector
• Lene Bryngemark (Lund University, Sweden) - Search for new phenomena in dijet angular distributions at√s = 8 and 13 TeV
• Joana Machado Miguéns (Lisboa University, Portugal) - Observation and measurement of the Higgs boson in the WW decay channel with ATLAS at the LHC
• Benjamin Philip Nachman (Stanford University, USA) - Investigating the quantum properties of jets and the search for a supersymmetric top quark partner with the ATLAS detector
• Matthias Saimpert (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - Mesure de la section efficace de production de paires de photons isolés dans l'expérience ATLAS au LHC et étude des couplages à quatre photons

See the News Article on the 2016 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2017 are:

• Pierfrancesco Butti (Nikhef, Netherlands) - Search for scalar top quarks decaying into scalar tau leptons with ATLAS at √s = 8 TeV and Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector in Run-2
• Johanna Gramling (Université de Genève, Switzerland) - Search for Dark Matter in Missing-Energy Final States with an Energetic Jet or Top Quarks with the ATLAS Detector
• Oleh Kivernyk (CEA/Irfu/SPP, Université Paris-Saclay, France) - Measurement of the W-boson mass with the ATLAS detector
• Philip Sommer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) - A Measurement of W Boson Pair Production in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Experiment​
• Markus Zinser (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany) - Search for new heavy charged bosons and measurement of high-mass Drell-Yan production in proton-proton collisions​

See the News Article on the 2017 Awards.

The ATLAS Thesis Award winners for 2018 are:

• Nedaa Alexandra Asbah (DESY Hamburg) - Search for the Production of a Standard Model Higgs Boson in Association with Top-Quarks and Decaying into a Pair of Bottom-Quarks with 13 TeV ATLAS Data
• Andrew Stuart Bell (University of London) - b-Tagging and Evidence for the Standard Model H to bb Decay with the ATLAS Experiment
• Rafal Bielski (University of Manchester) - Top Quark Pair Production Measurements in the Single Lepton Channel using the ATLAS Detector
• Nicolas Köhler (MPI München) - Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment
• Stefano Manzoni (University of Milan & INFN; University Pierre et Marie Curie & LPNHE-Paris) - Physics with Photons with the ATLAS Run 2 Data: Calibration and Identification, Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass and Search for Supersymmetry in the Di-Photon Final State
• Anne-Luise Poley (DESY Zeuthen) - Studies of Adhesives and Metal Contacts on Silicon Strip Sensors for the ATLAS Inner Tracker

See the News Article on the 2018 Awards.