VERSEN Thesis Awards - Call for Submissions

Deadline: January 28th, 2026

Submission: link

Process: low-weight, just upload thesis and candidate CV, and optionally a nomination text and/or link to a video explaining the thesis.

Procedure Thesis Awards 2025

The Award can only be awarded to graduate students who have obtained their degree from a Dutch institute of higher academic learning between September 1st, 2024, until August 31st, 2025. We strongly recommend that both the winner of a thesis award and the nominator are present at the award ceremony.

Important Dates (Both Awards)

28-01-2026: Deadline for submission
25-02-2026: Notification
There will be a joint PhD and MSc award ceremony at the SEN Symposium, in 2026

Further Information

For further information about the awards, contact dr. Georgiana Caltais (g.g.c.caltais@utwente.nl).

Evaluation Committee Thesis Awards

2024-2025: dr. Georgiana Caltais; Maliheh Izadi, PhD; dr. ing. Jacob Krüger
2023-2024: dr. ing. Anton Wijs; dr. Georgiana Caltais; Maliheh Izadi, PhD
2022-2023: dr. ing. Anton Wijs; dr. Yanja Dajsuren; dr. Georgiana Caltais
2021-2022: dr. ing. Anton Wijs; prof. dr. Jorge Perez; dr. Yanja Dajsuren
2020-2021: dr. Slinger Jansen; prof. dr. Jorge Perez; dr. ing. Anton Wijs; dr. Yanja Dajsuren