“CBM Best Thesis Award” awarded to Dr. Kshitij Agarwal
20.03.2025 |
The CBM Collaboration awarded the “Best Thesis Award 2024” to an outstanding PhD thesis. The prize went to Dr. Kshitij Agarwal and was presented recently during the CBM Collaboration Meeting. 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. Kshitij Agarwal defended his PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen, Germany. With his thesis “Thermal Management of the Silicon Tracking System of the CBM Experiment at FAIR“, he made significant contributions to the design of the cooling element of the Silicon Tracking System (STS) and optimizing the construction of the STS modules as well as the monitoring of environmental parameters. As part of his dissertation, he developed a realistic CBM-STS thermal demonstrator to experimentally verify the cooling concept and simulation results.
Emphasized by the CBM Collaboration was the “high relevance of this work for the development of the concept of the STS cooling system and its direct implications in the final STS operation”.
The CBM Dissertation Prize Committee decided on the works submitted. It is formed by Petr Chaloupka, Krzysztof Piasecki und and Alberica Toia (Chair). CBM spokesperson is Tetyana Galatyuk, Chairman of the CBM Collaboration Committee Hanna Zbroszczyk. (LK/BP)
