Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize  

Outstanding PhD Thesis

This prize runs from March - February and is awarded to the PhD student(s) who produce outstanding doctoral thesis during the academic year. Supervisors are able to nominate their graduated students, who will then be put forward to the Awards Panel for consideration.

Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award

Most promising doctoral work

Awarded to an EEE PhD student based on merit after a formal assessment of their progress at the Late Stage Review (LSR) milestone. The prize year runs from March - February.

The award is given to the most promising PhD work as judged at the time of LSR. The research achievements so far; the expected original contributions, the future plan quality,  and the level of research engagement (publications and external presentations) are the criteria taken into account for the award.

To be considered eligible, students must have completed their LSR assessment on time by the due date.

Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year 

 This award runs each academic year and the nominee must be a research student who has acted as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Qualities such as quality of teaching, approachability, engagement and motivation and impact on student learning will be considered.

The nominee will be named as the Department GTA of the Year and will be shortlisted for the Faculty of Engineering GTA of the Year Award.

Previous winners

2017/2018 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies Prize 

Dr Tobias Fischer, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris

Dr Hailing Fu, supervised by Prof Eric Yeatman

Dr Alberto Padoan, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolf

  • GTA of the Year

Dr Adian Hogg

2018/2019 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize

Dr Tobias Fischer, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris

Dr Hailing Fu, supervised by Prof Eric Yeatman

Dr Alberto Padoan, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolfi

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year 

Dr Mark Zolotas

2019/2020 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize

Dr Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, supervised by Prof Deniz Gunduz

Dr Xin Xiang, supervised by Prof Tim Green

Dr Juan Arteaga Saenz, supervised by Prof Paul Mitcheson

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant of the year

Dr Dylan Auty 

2020/2021 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize

Dr Jochen Cremer, supervised by Prof Goran Strbac

Dr Xin Deng, supervised by Prof Pier Luigi Dragotti

  • GTA of the Year

Dr Eugenie Ducoin

2021/2022 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize

Dr Jochen Cremer, supervised by Prof Goran Strbac

Dr Xin Deng, supervised by Prof Pier Luigi Dragotti

  • Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award

Dr Taiyu Zhu, supervised by Prof Pantelis Georgiou

  • GTA of the Year

Dr Roxana Irina Alexandru

2022/2023 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize

Dr Kaiwen Chen, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolfi

  • Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award

Dr Muhammad Haziq Bin Razali, supervised by Prof Yiannis Demiris

  • GTA of the Year

TBC

2023/2024 cohort
  • Eryl Cadwallader Davies prize  

Dr Joel David Simard, supervised by Prof Alessandro Astolfi

Dr Nunzio Pucci, supervised by Prof Paul Mitcheson

  • Stylianos Kalaitzis PhD Award

Samuel Coward, supervised by Prof George Constantinides