The ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award winners for 2016 are:​​​​​​

• Marcello Bindi (University of Göttingen), Laura Jeanty (Berkeley National Lab), Kerstin Lantzsch (University of Bonn), Karolos Potamianos (Berkeley National Lab) and Yosuke Takubo (KEK) were celebrated for their outstanding contributions to the successful commissioning and operation of the Pixel Detector for the start-up of Run 2.
• Dmitri Kharchenko (JINR), Uladzimir Kruchonak (JINR), Konstantin Levterov (JINR) and Enrico Pastori (University of Rome Tor Vergata and INFN) were celebrated for developing new techniques ensuring stable operation of the RPC gas system.
• Filipe Martins (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP)) for his contribution to the operations and upgrade of the TileCal Detector Control System.
• Ricardo Abreu (University of Oregon), Patrick Czodrowski (CERN), Carlos Barajas (University of Sussex), Joana Machado Miguens (University of Pennsylvania) and Mark Stockton (McGill University) for their outstanding contributions to ensuring the integrity of the Trigger during Run 2.
• The ATLAS Magnet Team, CERN VSC (Vacuum, Surfaces & Coatings) Team, CERN Central Workshop and CERN Detectors Technology Operations Group were celebrated for their outstanding work on the vacuum bellows for the Endcap C Toroid. This year, in addition to awarding specific members of the collaboration, special recognition was also given to these ATLAS and CERN groups.
• Magda Chelstowska (CERN) and Christian Ohm (Berkeley National Lab) for providing prompt data reconstruction at Tier 0, especially during the 2015 run.
• Attila Krasznahorkay (CERN) was given an award for his outstanding contributions to the development and implementation of the Run 2 analysis model, in particular the development of the xAOD.
• Matthias Danninger (University of British Columbia) and Hideyuki Oide (University of Genoa and INFN) were celebrated for their outstanding contributions to the real-time tracking of the Insertable B-Layer alignment.

See the News Article on the 2016 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.