Winners of the SWICCOMAS prize 2025

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 Zürich.

see Award page for abstracts