Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early-Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards. The Awards were presented during LHCb week at CERN on Wednesday, 24 June.

“These prizes recognise the excellent work performed by some of our collaborators, but there were also many others who were very deserving,” said the Chairs of the three selection committees: Mara Senghi Soares, Eric Thomas and Michael Winn. Experiments like LHCb only succeed through the contributions of members with a variety of different roles, which is reflected in part by the three types of awards.

The 2026 LHCb Thesis Awards were presented to three PhD students who defended excellent theses in 2025 and contributed to LHCb in an exceptional way: Fabian Glaser (Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany), Jamie Gooding (Technische Universität Dortmund) and Giorgia Tonani (INFN Milano). The selection committee considered all the work they had conducted during their PhDs, assessing both the scientific quality and the clarity of the presentation of results in the theses. They paid special attention to outstanding contributions to LHCb beyond the main thesis subject, such as work towards the experiment’s overall operation, innovative efforts in promoting LHCb and significant outreach activities.

Outstanding contributions to LHCb research and development, operations or the construction or installation of LHCb systems were recognised through the Technical Awards. Early-Career Scientist Awards were given to individuals or small teams within the Collaboration for outstanding or transformative contributions to LHCb, including to its operations, computing and software.

Read more about all the winners and their contributions on the LHCb website.