In this section CAPE WP honors all the PhD Students that have participated to the competition for the EFCE Excellence Award in recognition of an outstanding PhD thesis on CAPE. Here their names, and the link to their Thesis are available. The initiative starts from 2022.
2022 EFCE Excellence Award
| Name | Discussion Month | Year | Title | University | Supervisor(s) |
| Alessandro Di Pretoro
Winner |
September | 2020 | Optimal Design of Flexible, Operable and Sustainable Processes under Uncertainty: Biorefinery Applications | Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse; | Ludovic MONTASTRUC |
| Shokry Ahmed
Winner |
September | 2021 | A Contribution to Chemical Process Operation Support: New Machine Learning and Surrogate Models-Based Approaches for Process Optimization, Supervision and Control | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC | Antonio Espuna |
| Ana Somoza Tornos
Third position |
March | 2020 | Decision Support Strategies for the Efficient Implementation of Circular Economy Principles in Process Systems | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Antonio Espuña & Moisès Graells |
| Anton Ochoa Bique | October | 2019 | STRATEGIC DESIGN OF A HYDROGEN INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER UNCERTAINTY | University of Twente | Edwin Zondervan |
| Dominik Bongartz | June | 2020 | Deterministic Global Flowsheet Optimization for the Design of Energy Conversion Processes | RWTH Aachen University | Alexander Mitsos |