Georges Giralt PhD Award

The trophy of the Georges Giralt PhD Award represents one part of the SPARC logo

The Georges Giralt PhD Award is a European scientific prize for extraordinary contributions in robotics. It is yearly awarded at the European Robotics Forum by euRobotics AISBL, a non-profit organisation based in Brussels with the objective to turn robotics beneficial for Europe’s economy and society.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

The high reputation of the Georges Giralt PhD Award is based on the prominent role of the awarding institution euRobotics. With more than 250 member organisations,^[6] euRobotics represents the academic and industrial robotics community in Europe. Moreover, it provides the European robotics community with a legal entity to engage in a public/private partnership with the European Commission.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Entitled for participation for the Georges Giralt PhD Award are all robotics-related dissertations which have been successfully defended at a European university.

The US-American counterpart is the Dick Volz Award.

Award winners

2016 Alexander Dietrich, Mark Müller
2015 Jörg Stückler
2014 Manuel Catalano, Fabien Expert, Rainer Jaekel
2013 Jens Kober
2012 Sami Haddadin
2011 Mario Pratts
2010 Ludovic Righetti
2009 Alejandro-Dizan Vasquez-Govea
2008 Cyrill Stachniss
2007 Pierre Lamon
2006 Martijn Wisse
2005 Juan Andrade Cetto
2004 Gilles Duchemin
2003 Ralph Koeppe
2002 Gianluca Antonelli, Jens-Steffen Gutmann

References

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