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Annual Award

European Systems & ControlPhD Thesis Award

Recognizing excellence in doctoral research across Europe

Submission Deadline
28th February 2026

About the Award

The EECI PhD Award is granted annually in recognition of the best PhD thesis in Europe in the field of Systems & Control. The aim is to encourage high-quality work amongst young researchers in their first research period.

Trophy & Certificate

Recognition of your outstanding contribution to the field

1000 EUR Prize

Monetary award to support your continued research

ECC Ceremony

Award presented at the annual European Control Conference

Since 2007, the awardee(s) are invited to contribute a vision, review, or research tutorial type paper to Annual Review in Control, in a new category dedicated to Young Research Talents.

Eligibility

Requirements for submitting your thesis

Language
Thesis must be written in English
Location
Thesis must have been defended in Europe
Defense Period
Between 15/07/2024 and 14/07/2025
Topic
Related to dynamical systems analysis, control theory, estimation, or applications

The main scientific contributions must be related to the analysis of dynamical systems, the development of control and estimation theory, or their applications to cutting-edge real-world problems. The selection is based on a peer-reviewing process with Scientific Committee approval.

Submission Requirements

Please submit the following documents

Copy of Thesis
Complete PhD thesis in PDF format
Extended Summary
4-6 page summary describing the study, contribution to control theory, and connections to industrial practice
Curriculum Vitae
CV of academic and professional achievement, including list of publications
Recommendation Letter
Letter of recommendation from the thesis advisor

Submit Your Application

Please send all documents (e.g., by WeTransfer) to:

luca.greco@centralesupelec.fr

Previous Prize Winners

Celebrating excellence since 2007

2024
ECC 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece
Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez
Universidad de Zaragoza, SpainDefense: December 2023

Distributed cooperation under perception latency and network constraints

2024
ECC 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece
Juan Pablo Martinez-Piazuelo
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, SpainDefense: June 2024

On the design of optimization-based controllers via generalized Nash equilibrium seeking in evolutionary games over networks

2023
ECC 2024, Stockholm, SE
Guido Carnevale
Università di Bologna, ItalyDefense: March 2023

Distributed optimization and games over Networks: A system theoretical perspective

2023
ECC 2024, Stockholm, SE
Elia Kaufmann
University of Zurich, SwitzerlandDefense: July 2022

Learning vision-based agile flight: From simulation to the real world

2022
ECC 2023, Bucharest, Romania
Mohammad Khosravi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), SwitzerlandDefense: November 2021

Side-information in linear and nonlinear system identification

2021
ECC 2022, London, UK
Johannes Köhler
University of Stuttgart, GermanyDefense: March 2021

Analysis and design of MPC frameworks for dynamic operation of nonlinear constrained systems

2021
ECC 2022, London, UK
Henk van Waarde
University of Groningen, NetherlandsDefense: November 2020

From data and structure to models and controllers

2020
Virtual
Christos Verginis
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenDefense: May 2020

Planning and Control of Uncertain Cooperative Mobile Manipulator-Endowed Systems under Temporal Logic Tasks

2019
Virtual
Amaury Hayat
University of Sorbonne, FranceDefense: May 2019

Stabilization of 1D nonlinear hyperbolic systems by boundary controls

2019
Virtual
Yang Zheng
University of Oxford, UKDefense: February 2019

Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems

2018
ECC 2019, Naples, Italy
Pauline Bernard
MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, FranceDefense: November 2017

Observer design for nonlinear systems

2018
ECC 2019, Naples, Italy
Victor Dolk
Eindhoven University of Technology, NetherlandsDefense: November 2017

Resource-aware and Resilient Control with Applications to Cooperative Driving