The award recognizes the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics successfully defended in a European country in 2024. Applications by non-European scientists who defended their PhD thesis in Europe are welcome. Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2025 and must include:

1. the PhD thesis (if in English) or an extended abstract of the thesis in English (3 pages or more);
2. peer-reviewed papers authored by the applicant and related to the thesis topics;
3. a letter of the thesis supervisor supporting the application;
4. a cover letter describing motivations, goals, and results of the PhD thesis.

Theses will be evaluated by three anonymous reviewers who had no collaboration with any of the candidates/tutors over the past five years. ETS retains the right not to assign the Award. The winner will be announced by April 15, 2025 on the ETS website and by e-mail to the winning applicant.

The Award to the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics is a money prize of 500 euros, a plate, and an invited talk at ECT 2025.

Applications must be sent within the deadline of Feb. 15, 2025 to European.Thermoelectric.Soc@gmail.com as a single zip file, either as an attachment or as a link to a freely accessible cloud drive.

Full details about the regulation of the award are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IHieGVYdAtCMSdaXsfyx9TuzTUbAWQN-/view?usp=sharing

Three poster prizes sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) and endowed with a prize money of 500 Euro each were awarded at the ECT2018 in Caen. The winners are:

Miguel ARAIZ – Universidad Pública de Navarra , Pamplona-Iruña / Spain
	Miguel Araiz: “Passive thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery from a combustion chamber”
Ruomeng HUANG – University of Southampton, Southampton / UNITED KINGDOM
	Ruomeng Huang, Stephen Richards, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gill Reid, C.H. (Kees) De Groot: PDF “Thin film thermoelectric micro-generator by selective chemical vapour deposition”
Felix KAISER – Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden / GERMANY
	Felix Kaiser: “Synthesis, structure and thermoelectric properties of molybdenum oxides”

The three EST poster prizes 2016 sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) were awarded to:

PDF Yoshiaki KINEMUCHI – Nagoya University, Nagoya / JAPAN
PDF Biplab PAUL – Linköpings Universitet / SWEDEN
PDF Fabio RICCI – Université de Liège, Liège / BELGIUM