FEMS Masters Thesis Award - Past winners

2023 FEMS Master Thesis Award

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Lara Catarina Lopes Castanheira (SPM)  - Winner
The production of sustainable powders for direct energy deposition
Chrysanthi Gkili (HSSTCM)  - 3rd place
Stability of the passive state of Ta in the presence of halides and the role of electron transfer processes and the growth of polyaniline thin films
Ester Lopez (SOCIEMAT) - 2nd place
Active protection of aluminium alloys
Valentina Trombetta (AIM)
Effect of starch gelatinization and particle size distribution on mechanical properties of jarosite-blast furnace sludges self-reducing briquettes

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2022 FEMS Master Thesis Award

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Narea García de Albeniz (SOCIEMAT) - Winner
Laser-assisted surface modification of zirconia-based materials to guide osteoblast response for dental applications
Ivânia Trêpo (SPM) - 2nd Place
Transparent and flexible ECoG electrode arrays of metallic nanostructures for neural recordings
Yann Bami-Chatener (SF2M) - 3rd Place
Elaboration of super-hydrophobic bio-inspired surfaces by hybrid 3D-manufacturing
Chrysoula Aivalioti (HSSTCM) - 4th Place
Nanostructured doped nickel oxide thin films made by rf sputtering as hole transfer layers for transparent optoelectric devices


2021 FEMS Masters Thesis Award

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Xabier Garcia (SOCIEMAT) - Winner
1D and 3D nanomaterial fabrication and surface modification for developing piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators
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Maria Dimitra Chiotelli (HMS) - 2nd Place
Experimental investigation of the biomechanical behaviour of the most widespread patellar fixation techniques in medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction
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Austin Hubley (SF2M) - 3rd Place
Shape-shifting nanosheets: 2-dimensional Chiral perovskites
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2020 FEMS Masters Thesis Award

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Georgios Chatzigiannakis (HSST) – Winner
Laser-microstructured ZnO/Si heterojunction photodetectors
Ana Carina Lopes (SPM) – 2nd Place
Study and evaluation of different combinations of virgin and processed PA material for Selective Laser Sintering technology
Hugo Roirand (SF2M) – 3rd Place
Influence of ECAP (Equal Channel Angular Pressing) process on fatigue-corrosion properties of an aluminum alloy used in automotive wires


2019 FEMS Masters Thesis Award

Adriana Eres-Castellanos (Spain) – Winner
Effect of ausforming on the bainitic transformation in medium carbon steels
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Amélie Thiriet (France) – 2nd Place
Microstructure and properties of multi-component Functionally Graded Material (FGM) obtained by CLAD additive manufacturing
Vinh Tu (Sweden) – 3rd Place
Modelling and finite element simulation of the bifunctional performance of a microporous Structural Battery (SBE)


2018 FEMS Masters Thesis Award

Beatriz J. Coelho (Portugal) – Winner
A digital microfluidics platform for loop-mediated isothermal amplification of DNA
Manuel Alonso Orts (Spain) – 2nd Place
Synthesis and characterization of complex semiconducting oxide nanostructures
Flore Villaret (France) – 3rd Place
2D grain growth modelling in ODS steel with different full field approaches