CBM Best Thesis Award for Dario Ramirez and Pavish Subramani
16.04.2026 |
The CBM Collaboration awarded two young researchers with the "CBM Best Thesis Award" for outstanding PhD theses. The awards were recently presented during the CBM Collaboration Meeting and honored Dr. Dario Ramirez and Dr. Pavish Subramani. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is one of the central research pillars of the international accelerator center FAIR, which is currently being built at GSI.
Dr. Dario Ramirez, Frankfurt University, received the award for his thesis „Performance evaluation of the prototype CBM Silicon Tracking System — Results from operation in the mCBM at the SIS18 demonstrator experiment,“ where he delivers an outstanding and pioneering contribution to the first comprehensive validation of the Silicon Tracking System (STS) performance with real experimental data, and to a robust and lasting analysis framework covering the full reconstruction chain of the STS under realistic beam conditions. The CBM Collaboration acknowledges the high relevance of this work for establishing the experimental readiness and long-term reliability of the STS detector in the demanding CBM environment.
Dr. Pavish Subramani, Wuppertal University, was awarded for his thesis „Performance qualification of the DIRICH readout system and development of a novel electron reconstruction scheme for the CBM experiment“. The CBM Collaboration acknowledges his significant contributions to the performance qualification of the DIRICH readout system, and for the development of innovative electron reconstruction methods combining RICH and TRD information with advanced machine learning techniques, which has a high relevance for improving the electron identification capability and ensuring the optimal operation and physics performance of the CBM RICH detector.
The CBM Dissertation Award Committee decided on the works submitted. It is formed of Petr Chaloupka, Lokesh Kumar und and Alberica Toia (Chair). CBM spokesperson is Tetyana Galatyuk, Chairman of the CBM Collaboration Committee Hanna Zbroszczyk. (CP)
