The GIMC Best PhD Thesis Awards committee, composed by Stefania Cherubini (Politecnico di Bari), Ugo Galvanetto (Università di Padova), Antonio Madeo (Università della Calabria), Vincenzo Mallardo (Università di Ferrara) and Cristian Marchioli (Università di Udine), selected the following theses, defended in 2023, as the best PhD theses in Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics:

• Dr. Alessandro Marengo, Politecnico di Milano
  “The phase-field modeling of fracture evolution in ductile materials with application to paperboard mechanics”.
  This thesis was also selected as candidate for the ECCOMAS PhD Award.

• Dr. Alessandro Della Pia, Università di Napoli Federico II
  “Numerical and experimental investigation of unsteady plane liquid jets”.