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Collective kudos: research excellence at the EUI

It is commencement week at the EUI. In addition to the many diplomas awarded at this year's Conferring Ceremony, EUI scholars have collected an impressive number of international awards and prizes during the academic year 2022–2023.

16 June 2023 | Award - Research

Academic Service Degree Conferring

During the 12-month period starting from 1 July 2022, over 25 members of the EUI community have been recognised for the excellence of their research by scientific associations and professional organisations across the world. Among them, are two Masters students; five postdoctoral fellows and other research fellows; six faculty members; ten PhD researchers/recent alumni; and the EUI's former President, Joseph H.H. Weiler.

The list below comes in addition to the many EUI scholars who were awarded research grants in 2022–2023, and to those who were recognised by the EUI's own departments and programmes for their outstanding research.

Michael Bauer (STG) and co-authors, Christopher Pollitt Award (for 2021, awarded in 2023) for the best International Review of Administrative Sciences article

Giancarlo Casale (HEC), 2022 Best Source Edition/Translation book award from The Mediterranean Seminar, an interdisciplinary forum for collaboration in research and teaching in Mediterranean studies

Victoria Finn (Max Weber Fellow, RSC), 2022 Best dissertation award from the American Political Science Association, Migration & Citizenship Section

Natalia Garbiras-Díaz (Max Weber Fellow, SPS), 2022 Best dissertation award from the American Political Science Association, Experimental Research Section

Wojciech Giemza (LAW), 2022 Baetens-Caiado Prize from the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)

Carlos J Gil Hernández (SPS), Best dissertation of the year (for 2021, awarded in 2022) from the European Consortium for Sociological Research

Josef Hien (RSC Visiting Fellow), 2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for the best article in the journal Critical Policy Studies

Daniel Innerarity (STG), 2022 Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Prize (Spain) for Research in Humanities

Mahmoud Jafari (STG), 2023 Best Student Paper award, from the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)

Neha Jain (LAW/AEL), 2023 Francis Deák Prize from the American Journal of International Law

Emma Kluge (Max Weber Fellow/HEC), 2022 Early Career Essay Prize, given by the journal Humanity

Emma Kluge (Max Weber Fellow, HEC), 2023 Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition

Catherine Lefèvre (Max Weber Fellow, HEC), 2022 CIVICA Research Conference Poster Prize

Karmen Misiou (SPS), 2023 Nicos Mouzelis Award for Best Paper at the 10th Biennial PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus

Lukas Nord (ECO), 2022 Econ Job Market Best Paper Award (9th edition), supported by the UniCredit Foundation

Christian Prener (RSC), 2023 Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship

Samuel Ritholtz (Max Weber Fellow, SPS), honourable mention for 2023 for the Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper, International Studies Association

Sunday Jerome Salami (STG), 2023 First prize in African Union–European Union D4D Hub's #D4DBlogging competition

Leticia Díez Sánchez (LAW), 2022 First Place Award for the best doctoral thesis in European Law from the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA)

Leticia Díez Sánchez (LAW), 2022 Thesis Prize from the European Public Law Organization (EPLO)

Giovanni Sartor (LAW), 2023 CodeX Prize from the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

Waltraud Schelkle (SPS and RSC), 2023, Society for Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Mentor Award from the International Studies Association

Samuel D. Schmid (SPS), 2022 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Political Science Association

Vicente Valentim (SPS), 2022 GESIS Klingemann Prize from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, CSES

Vicente Valentim (SPS), 2022 Jean Blondel PhD Prize for the best thesis in politics, from the European Consortium for Political Research

Marie Van Haaster (HEC), 2022 RICH Master's Thesis Award from the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH)

Marie Van Haaster (HEC), 2023 Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize, Raboud University

Joseph H. H. Weiler (LAW; former EUI president), 2022 Ratzinger Prize (awarded by Pope Francis)

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