EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award
The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA) was introduced in 2003 and recognizes the OR contributions of PhD students or scientists having less than two years research experience since completing a PhD. The entries will consist of doctoral dissertations that were completed after the competition deadline of the previous EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award. The dissertation must have been defended at an European University and the author must be a member of an EURO member society. A short-list of finalists are invited to present their work in a special session of the EURO-k Conference or relevant Conference selected for a non-EURO-k year. The winner is determined by the jury at the end of the special session(s) and is announced by the chairman of the jury during the closing session of the Conference. Only one award may be made on each occasion.
Purpose
The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a member of EURO.
THE PRIZE
- The prize consists of a certificate and reward of €1,000
EURO Doctoral Dissertation Winner 2026
The winner of the 2026 EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award is:
Fabian Akkerman
University of Twente
Machine Learning for Sequential Decisions in Logistics
The EDDA 2026 jury consisted of Violeta Cvetkoska (Chair), Eduardo Pardo, Yiannis Mourtos, Ana Viana, Achim Koberstein
The presentation was made at the closing session of the IFORS 2026 Conference in Vienna (Austria).
Jury of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2027
- Eduardo Pardo (Spain) - chair
- Yiannis Mourtos (Greece)
- Natasha Shakhlevich (UK)
- Tea Šestanović (Croatia)
- Dilek Günneç (Turkey)
The period for nominations for the 2027 EDDA is not yet open. It will be announced in October 2026.
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