Award 2023

The Edith Alice Müller Award 2023 was attributed to both:

Michael Crétignier for his thesis ‘Improving the RV precision to detect the Earth’s twins round the Sun’s siblings

This thesis contributes includes an innovative work on spectral post-processing and radial velocities and proposes new perspectives for a systematic application of the developed tools to data from past, present, and future instruments

and

Simone Bavera for his thesis ‘Unraveling the Origins of Stellar Mass Black Hole Mergers’

This thesis covers a range of topics related to the origin of stellar-mass black-hole mergers, sources of gravitational waves. His thesis work has already been broadly influential in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics.

Michaël Cretignier receiving the Edith Alice Müller 2023 certificate from SSAA President Margit Haberreiter at the SSAA General Assembly 2023, at the Observatoire de Genève

Simone Bavera receiving the Edith Alice Müller 2023 certificate from SSAA President Margit Haberreiter at the SSAA General Assembly 2023, at the Observatoire de Genève