CAPES Award

The CAPES Thesis Award is awarded annually to the best doctoral conclusion works defended in Brazilian postgraduate programs according to the following criteria: originality of the work, relevance for scientific, technological, cultural, social and innovation development and the value added by the educational system to the candidate.

Created in 2005 and delivered for the first time in 2006, it covers all areas of knowledge that have a representative in postgraduate evaluation stricto sensu.

2023

Capes Thesis Award 2023 – Winners

SERGIO LUIZ NOVI JUNIOR - Investigation of functional neuroplast city in the human brain with near infrared spectrum py

MARIA ISABEL LANDIM NEVES - Blue natural dye based on milk and Genipa americana L. for the food industry: Obtaining, reaction mechanism and particle design using prebiotic carriers

DAVID PAULO SUCCI JUNIOR - Legitimate violence: military operations within Brazilian borders

ANDRES DE JESUS ​​ARGUELLO GUILEN - METHOD LOGIES FOR ANALYSIS, MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION OF RESONAN AND IN WIND PARKS

MARCUS VINICIUS THEODORO SOARES - DISTRIBUTION OF SEDIMEN AND PALEOSS LOS IN ANCIENT RIVER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS: PROXIES FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

SARA ALEXANDRA RESTREPO VALENCIA - Evaluation of the technical-economic viability of BECCS systems in the generation of electricity using residual sugarcane biomass

MARIA JULIA DE OLIVEIRA MIELE - ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES IN A COHORT OF LOW-RISK NULIPARA WOMEN

Capes Thesis Award 2023 – Honorable Mentions 

CARLOS EDUARDO MACHADO - THE “ART OF THE RODEO”: PEOPLE, BULLS AND DROPERS IN THE AGRIBUSINESS SOCIETY

MARCO ANTONIO FAGANELLO - Party Fragmentation in Brazil (2000-2020)

LILIAN NOGUEIRA ROLLIN - ncome inequality, economic activity, and economic policy in an agent-based macroeco omic model

MATHEUS FREDERICO STAPENHORST - A class of singular elliptic equations

MARIANA CORREA DE SOUZA - ON-LINE EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM BLACK TEA (CAMELLIA SINENSIS) AND MATE (ILEX PARAGUA IENSIS): APPLICATION IN FOODS AND EVALUATION OF BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL

ANNA LUIZA DAMACENO ARAUJO - MACHINE LEARNING APPLIED TO RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS OF STOMAT LOGY AND ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY

2022

awarded theses

  • Carlos Jorge Poblete Jara - Evaluation of the Wound Healing with Topical Treatment of Fibronogen Complex-Fibronectin
  • Tulio Rodarte Ricciardi - High fidelity numerical simulations for landing gear noise prediction

Honorable Mentions

  • Carlos Alberto Stefano Filho - Investigation of Neurofeedback Training Technique Using Magnetic Resonance
  • Allan Mariano de Souza - Towards a Scalable Cooperative Vehicular Traffic Re-Routing System
  • Diego Luciano do Nascimento - Paleoichnology and neoichnology as tools for paleoenvironmental and paleoecological inference: examples for the Mesozoic of Brazil
  • Alessandro Adad Jammal - Development and application of deep learning algorithms in diagnostic exams for glaucoma
  • Isaac Jordan de Souza Araújor - Self-assembling peptide-induced biomineralization for reparative and regenerative therapies
  • Rodrigo Szostak - Revealing perovskite solar cells properties using synchrotron radiation techniques
  • Livia Helena Terra e Souza - The mouth stuck in racism: Racial inequalities in oral health conditions