The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2025 PhD Award is March 20th 2025. The conditions to apply are:

• Having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS
• Having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2023)

The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2025 via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2025

The application must be a single PDF file containing:

• A short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members, their evaluation reports, and a list of publications that resulted from the PhD thesis.
• A support letter from the thesis advisor.
• The candidate’s defended PhD thesis.
• The candidate’s CV.

About the PhD Award

The CAiSE PhD Award is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the field of Information Systems Engineering. The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference, and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer’s printed books collection.

In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer’s publication conditions are met.

The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and the CAiSE Program Committee.

Award Chairs

Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel

Key Dates

• Submission deadline: March 20th 2025
• Notification: May 15th 2025

Past Recipients of the Award

• 2024: Glenda Carla Moura Amaral, PhD from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, thesis title “An Ontology Network in Finance and Economics”
• 2023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title “Model, Integrate, Search… Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” (link to the forthcoming monograph)
• 2022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title “Robotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation” (link to the thesis)
• 2021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title “Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System” (link to the thesis)
• 2020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title “Enabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes” (link to the published monograph)
• 2019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title “Artifact-driven business process monitoring” (link to the published monograph)
• 2018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia), thesis title “Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules” (link to the published monograph)
• 2017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title “TraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution” (link to the published monograph)
• 2016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title “Managing the Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models” (testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner)