ASEVA announces the call for the first edition of awards to the best doctoral thesis defended during the 2015-2016 or the 2016-2017 academic years. A significant part of the thesis work should be related to the use of techniques or processes using vacuum technology.

The candidates may not be members of ASEVA but in that case, they should be endorsed by a member of ASEVA.

In this first edition, the prize consists of an invited talk in the RIVA-X conference, the gratuity of the corresponding conference fees and a travel expenses help of 100€. In addition, the selected candidate will waived of the fee for the ASEVA membership in the first year.

The candidates should send the PhD manuscript and their CV by email to aseva@icmm.csic.es until 30th June 2017.