The SWICCOMAS committee awarded three SWICCOMAS prizes in 2025, for the best Ph.D. thesis, conducted in 2024: Dr. Konstantinos Vlachas, with the thesis title « Virtualization of Parametric Dynamical Systems Through Uncertainty-Aware Reduced Order Modeling » Thesis director – Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich. Dr. Omid Ashtari, with the thesis title « Adjoint-based variational methods for computing invariant solutions in spatio-temporally chaotic PDEs » Thesis director – Professor Tobias Schneider, EPFL. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Bastek, with the thesis title « Data- and Physics-driven Deep Learning for Forward and Inverse Problems in Computational Mechanics » Thesis director – Professor Dennis M. Kochmann, ETH
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2023 ECCOMAS best doctoral thesis award
Dr. Moritz Flaschel, winner of the SWICCOMAS 2024 PhD thesis award, is one of the two winners of the ECCOMAS award for the best doctoral thesis in 2023. Moritz wrote his thesis entitled Automated Discovery of Material Models in Continuum Solid Mechanics under the supervision of Professor Laura De Lorenzis
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