2 Jan 2020

In 2018, thirty-one ICFO PhD students defended their theses at the institute. From this pool, the PhD Committee launched an in-depth deliberation to determine the recipients of the PhD Thesis Awards, granting the prizes in a special ceremony in the framework of the annual ICFO Day celebration December 13, 2019.

The ICFO PhD Thesis Award was created in order to distinguish particularly brilliant PhD theses presented at ICFO. With it, ICFO wishes to highlight and reward extraordinary PhD students whose research progress at the institute has proven to be highly creative and ambitious.
Pau Farrera was awarded the best thesis award in the experimental section, in recognition of the exceptional thesis: “A Versatile Source of Light-matter Quantum States Based on Laser-cooled Atoms”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hugues de Riedmatten.