ACME Prize Winners
At every ACME conference a number of prizes are awarded to young researchers presenting their work at the meeting. These include:
- The Mike Crisfield Prize: best presenter amongst all Post-graduate Research Students and Post-doctoral Researchers
- Best Post-doctoral Researcher
- Post-graduate Research Students
- Best Paper Prize: introduced in 2007, the best paper prize is judged before the conference and is based solely on the technical paper submitted.
In addition, a prize is awarded for the best PhD thesis of the previous year. Each University is allowed to submit the best computational mechanics PhD thesis from the previous calendar year for the competition of the best PhD thesis
ACME 2008:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Dr. Lukasz Kaczmarczyk | University of Glasgow |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Dr. Andrew Shaw | University of Newcastle |
| Post-graduate Research Student | M. Shadi Mohamed |
Heriot Watt University Southampton University |
| Best PhD Thesis for 2007 |
ACME 2007:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Dr. Lukasz Kaczmarczyk | University of Glasgow |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Dr. A. Formisano | University of Naples "Frederico II" |
| Post-graduate Research Student | X. Gu | University of Dortmund |
| Best Paper Prize (sponsored by Computational Technology Solutions) |
Clare Wood | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Best PhD Thesis for 2006 | Chenfeng Li | University of Wales, Swansea |
ACME 2006:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Ben Evans | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Angela Mihai | University of Strathclyde |
| Post-graduate Research Student | Richard W. Davies | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Best PhD Thesis for 2005 | Francisco Manuel Andrade Pires | University of Wales Swansea |
ACME 2005:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Jonathan Feldman | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Mihail Petkovski | University of Sheffield |
| Post-graduate Research Student | Lei Zhang | University of Newcastle |
| Best PhD Thesis for 2004 | Wulf Georg Dettmer (also received the ECCOMAS Best PhD 2004 Award) | University of Wales Swansea |
| Lionel Temmerman | Queen Mary University of London |
ACME 2004:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Colin Davie | University of Glasgow |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Suresh C. Seetharam | University of Wales, Cardiff |
| Post-graduate Research Student | Antonio Gil | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Best PhD Thesis for 2003 | Suresh C. Seetharam | University of Wales, Cardiff |
ACME 2003:
| Mike Crisfield Prize | Stefano Savino | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Post-doctoral Researcher | Miguel Rodriguez-Paz | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Post-graduate Research Student | Friederike Mund | Cranfield University |
| Orla Grant | Queen's University, Belfast | |
| Best PhD Thesis for year 2002 | Paul D. Ledger (also received the ECCOMAS Best PhD 2002 Award) | University of Wales, Swansea |
| Arnaud G. Malan | University of Wales, Swansea |