UPC Special Doctoral Awards 2023

The Extraordinary PhD Awards, given annually by the Technical University of Catalonia· Barcelona Tech (UPC), aim to recognize the best doctoral theses which have obtained “cum laude“ in their final PhD defense evaluation. This year, the UPC announced the list of 12 awardees in the broad area of “Sciences”, which includes the thesis of ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Jonas Fischer among the list of extraordinary doctoral works for the academic period 2020/2021.

Dr. Jonas Fischer obtained his MSc degree in Photonics from the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He joined the Medical Optics research group led by ICREA Prof Dr. Turgut Durduran to carry out his PhD studies on neuromonitoring within the BitMap project. Dr Fischer thesis entitled “Transcranial Diffuse Optical Measurements of Pulsatility Derived Parameters for Neuromonitoring Applications” was supervised by Prof Dr Turgut Durduran and Dr Udo M. Weigel.

Congratulations Jonas for this outstanding award!