Encouraging up-and-coming scientists around the world
Science is the key to solving society's greatest challenges.
The Syensqo Fund pursues this mission by supporting scientific research and innovation through various awards and initiatives.
On an annual basis, the Fund presents awards to Ph.D. graduates who have successfully defended their thesis the previous year at the Faculty of Sciences or Engineering School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
The prize is €3,000 per laureate, granted to 5 or 6 laureates per year.
The objective of this prize is to encourage young people to train and undertake research in the fields of science and technology where research is essential for the development of current and future industrial activities, to stimulate their inventiveness and encourage them to think of ways their work can contribute to societal progress.
Advancing scientific research and educational development by providing motivation, inspiration, career advancement and network expansion for graduate students.
2024 Awards session
While the excellence of research work remains a major criterion, the selection made by the jury also took into account the ability to synthesize and communicate the “science” message to non-specialists. In addition, the candidates were invited to present their own views on the potential contribution of their work to the Society towards a more sustainable future.
Congratulations to the 6 laureates of the 2024 session:
- Francisco De Nolasco Santos for his doctoral thesis: Data-driven methodologies for farm-wide fatigue load estimation on offshore wind turbines
- Odeline Dumas for her doctoral thesis: Work-hardening by reorientation induced plasticity in titanium alloys: from a fundamental understanding in Ti-6Al-4V towards new alloy design rules
- Bram Huygens for his doctoral thesis: Modelling dispersion in chromatography: from moment analysis to novel insights
- Leni Jodaitis for his doctoral thesis: Structural and conformational studies of MFS multidrug transporters QacA and LmrP
- Albert Nkwasa for his doctoral thesis:Regional to continental modelling of water quality in Africa: Imprints of global change on river nutrients and sediments
- Arthur Péquin for his doctoral thesis: Direct Numerical Simula6on Analysis of the Par6ally S6rred Reactor Model for Turbulent Reac6ng Flows
