At the 15th SPARC Topical Workshop 2018

Ilia A. Maltsev, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

was awarded with the  SPARC PhD Prize 2018 

for his thesis entitled “Calculations of charge-transfer and excitation probabilities in collisions of heavy highly charged ions”

Congratulation to Ilia for his excellent thesis !!!
on behalf of the whole SPARC Collaboration
The SPARC collaboration granted the SPARC PhD award for the very first time in 2018 in order to highlight important science contributions by young scientsits to the SPARC research program.

José Paulo Santos, Reinhold Schuch, Thomas Stöhlker, Andrey Surzhykov