Bruker Thesis Prize
Recognising outstanding work by PhD students in the field of electron spin resonance spectroscopy.
Details
| Status | Closed |
|---|---|
| Career stage | PhD student |
Awarded by the ESR Spectroscopy Group
The group aims to promote innovation, share and advance knowledge, and to encourage applications of electron spin resonance in chemistry, as well as in physical and biological sciences and their applications.
Winners
Dr Yujie Zhao completed her doctoral thesis, titled 鈥淢ethodology development of high sensitivity pulsed EPR and DNP鈥�, in the mm-Wave and EPR group at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, under the supervision of Prof. Graham Smith. Our international judging panel were impressed with the breadth of the thesis, spanning both EPR and DNP investigations.
One reviewer described the work as "an excellent example of a thorough investigation of DNP and ENDOR using high frequency EPR with timely and relevant insights and conclusions for both EPR and solid-state DNP NMR from the design and building of hardware, experimental implementation, theory, simulation and experiment and application to a contemporary research area"
- 2024: Dr Fabian Hecker, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences G枚ttingen, Germany.
17O Hyperfine Spectroscopy to Investigate Water Binding to Organic Radicals - 2023: Dr Nino Wili, ETH Z眉rich, Switzerland.
New electron spin resonance experiments with tailored waveform excitation - 2022: Dr Janne Soetbeer, ETH Z眉rich, Switzerland.
Dynamical decoupling for quantitative decoherence analysis via noise spectroscopy - 2021: Dr Daphn茅 Lubert-Perquel, Imperial College London, UK.
Combining Film Design and Spectroscopic Strategies to Elucidate Triplet Dynamics in Molecular Systems - 2020: Dr Nabeel Aslam, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance with chemical structure resolution
- 2019: Dr Claire Motion, University of St Andrews, UK.
Improving the Sensitivity and Utility of Pulsed Dipolar Experiments in EPR at 94 GHz - 2018: Dr Audrey Bienfait, CEA-Saclay, France.
Magnetic Resonance with Quantum Microwaves - 2017: Dr Andrin Doll, ETH Z眉rich, Switzerland.
Frequency-Swept Microwave Pulses for Electron Spin Resonance - 2016: Dr Claudia Tait, University of Oxford, UK.
Uncrossing wires: EPR reveals spin delocalization in porphyrin nanoassemblies - 2015: Dr Joshua Biller, University of Denver, US.
Frequency Dependence of Nitroxide Relaxation from 250 MHz to 34 GHz
About this prize
The ESR Spectroscopy Group of the 九州影院 and Bruker Corporation established the Bruker Thesis Prize to recognise outstanding work by PhD students in the field of ESR Spectroscopy.
The winner receives a monetary award and will be invited to give a prize lecture at an ESR Spectroscopy Group conference.
To be eligible for the Bruker ESR Thesis Prize, the thesis defence (viva voce examination or equivalent) must have taken place within 3 years of the deadline.
Applications should be submitted by the thesis author and must include five elements
- the final corrected thesis as accepted by the awarding institution
- one-page summary of the thesis
- one-page letter of support from the thesis supervisor
- one-page letter of support from one of the examiners (external examiner where possible).
- list of publications directly arising from the work in the thesis. Contributions from all authors should be indicated using CRediT, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy
These documents must be submitted as five separate PDF files. Support letters must include university letterhead.
Theses may be submitted for a maximum of two entry rounds which must be in consecutive years. Theses that were submitted for the Prize in the previous round are eligible if they fall within the dates above; authors of such theses should contact the Secretary but need not resubmit the paperwork.
Applications, in the form of five PDF files (one-page summary of the thesis, the full thesis, supervisor support one-page letter, examiner support one-page letter, publication list with contributions using CRediT) should be uploaded using the online application system. Please ensure that you compress the PDF of the final thesis if necessary to enable upload to the online system and facilitate easy sharing of documents within the assessment team.
Early career postdoctoral researchers may also be eligible to apply for the JEOL medal. The prize is awarded annually on the basis of a lecture given at the RSC ESR group meeting.