In memory of Karel Šafařík (1953-2024)

22 July 2026

The ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners
during a special function held as part of the ALICE Week collaboration meeting at CERN.

The Winners are:

• Dr. Swati Saha
  NISER, Homi Bhabha National Institute, India
  
  Thesis title: Probing QCD matter via fluctuations, correlations, and flow in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
   
• Dr. Andrea Tavira García
  Universite Paris-Saclay, France
  
  Thesis title: Single and double charm production in pp collisions at √s = 13.6 TeV with ALICE
   
• Dr. Gregor Hieronymus Eberwein
  University of Oxford, UK
  
  Thesis title: Wafer-Scale Stitched CMOS Pixel Sensors: Characterisation and Detector Performance Studies for ALICE ITS3
   
• Dr. Chiara Ferrero
  Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  
  Thesis title: Novel pixel CMOS sensors for radiation detection applications and subnanosecond timing measurements

Congratulations to the winners!

Photos in the CDS

Link to the ALICE Thesis Award website