Lagrange Award – Multibody System Dynamics Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize
The Lagrange Award was established in 2017 by the IFToMM Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics and Springer with the aim of recognizing the outstanding achievements of a young researcher (under 35 years old) at the early stage of their scientific career.
The Lagrange Award is presented annually by the IFToMM Technical Committee for Multibody Dynamics and Springer’s journal Multibody System Dynamics to recognize the most successful PhD thesis on Multibody Dynamics over the prior year as judged by the evaluation committee. The winner will receive a certificate, a one-year subscription to Multibody System Dynamics, and Springer books to the value of € 250. The decision will be announced during a Multibody Dynamics conference supported by IFToMM.
The Award Committee is composed by four members, namely the coordinator and three senior researchers in the field (proposed by the award coordinator and approved by the IFToMM TC for Multibody Dynamics).
Applications (2025 edition)
The call for applications of the 2025 edition will open in the last weeks of the year.
Every researcher who has presented a PhD thesis related to the Multibody Dynamics field and got it approved at a University or Research Organization during 2025 qualifies for the award and can submit an application.
The applications must be sent by e-mail to the Award coordinator, Dr. Pascal Ziegler (pascal.ziegler@itm.uni-stuttgart.de). Applicants must include 1) a copy of their PhD thesis (in English), 2) a curriculum vitae, and 3) a maximum of three publications related to the thesis content.
Results – 2024 edition
The winners of the 2024 Lagrange Award are Mariana Isabel dos Santos Rodrigues da Silva (University of Minho) and Peter Manzl (University of Innsbruck). Honourable mentions have been presented to Adwait Verulkar (Virginia Tech). Congratulations!
The Award was presented during the closing ceremony of MULTIBODY 2025, the 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics, held in Innsbruck, Austria on July 13-18, 2025.
Past awards
- 2017 – Reza Sharif Razavian (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Sergio Conde Martín (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- 2018 – Claudia Latella (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy) and Pedro Antunes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
- 2019 – Albert Peiret (McGill University, Canada)
- 2020 – Filipe Marques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- 2021 – Henrik Ebel (Universität Stuttgart, Germany), Honourable mentions: Svenja Drücker (Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany) and Xinxin Yu (LUT University, Finland)
- 2022 – Philipp Eichmeir (Technische Universität Wien, Austria), Honourable mention: Simon Vanpaemel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
- 2023 – Yuanqing Gu (Tianjin University, China), Honourable mentions: Seongji Han (Kyung Hee University, South Korea) and Patrick S. Schmid (Universität Stuttgart, Germany).
- 2024 – Mariana Isabel dos Santos Rodrigues da Silva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) and Peter Manzl (Universität Innsbruck, Austria), Honourable mention: Adwait Verulkar (Virginia Tech, USA).
Awarded by:
Contact information
Pascal Ziegler
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics
University of Stuttgart
Germany
pascal.ziegler@itm.uni-stuttgart.de